There’s no beta for Genmoji or AI image generation, Pixel 9 headlines explain why | Technology

Today reviews dropped for Google’s AI-packed Pixel 9 phones. Why mention that on an Apple site? Because the headlines Google’s getting help explain why Apple Intelligence’s image generation features are still MIA from the iOS 18.1 beta. In fact, the more headlines I see, the more I wonder if we’ll ever see features like Genmoji and Image Playground launch. Here’s why.

Google’s new Pixel 9 comes with a variety of AI features, several of which involve images.

You can have objects realistically added to an existing image with a simple typed command. There’s also an Image Playground-like app for generating new images from scratch.

Though these features are only a small part of the Pixel 9’s capabilities, they’re getting a huge amount of focus in today’s media coverage.

And it’s not good.

Whoever said ‘all press is good press’ was not considering these very real headlines I came across today:

I’m sure there are…