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The Pixel 9 Pro XL showed me the future of AI photography

Google’s latest Pixel cameras pushes the AI envelope just a little further.

I played a new kind of AR Pac-Man game yesterday, guiding a circle on a phone screen toward a series of little dots that seemed to hover around a conference room. I played around with a few other AI features, including an auto re-framing tool in Magic Editor, which suggested I re-compose an image of a walking path to focus on a solitary mile marker pole. That’s the funny thing — the Pixel camera is a powerful tool whose makers take extraordinary care over how sharply it renders foliage and how easy it is to shoot a panorama.

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