Google Gives New Feature Boost To 300 Million Android Phones

After giving the Pixel 9 Pro XL its biggest discount yet and suddenly raising trade-in prices, which valued the Pixel 6a at $524, Google is now offering a year of Google AI Pro—for free—to Pixel 9 Pro owners.

The announcement of the offer coincides with the company’s continued expansion of its AI video generation model, Veo 3, which now has image-to-video capabilities. The new video-generation tools are available through Google’s AI Pro plan ($19.99 per month), or the AI Ultra ($124.99. per month) subscription.

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This offer only applies to the AI Pro subscription on the Pixel 9 Pro. It includes access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, filmmaking tool Flow, Gemini in Workspace apps and 2TB of storage, alongside other AI tools. To get the freebie, visit the Google One site, select the Google One tab, and sign up for the AI Pro plan. Let me know if it works.

Google Beefs Up Circle To Search Again With More AI Tools

In the same post, Google announced that is again boosting Circle To Search with the new AI Mode skillset. AI Mode essentially brings Gemini’s capabilities into Circle To Search. The idea is that after using Circle To Search, rather than just getting a short AI Overview summary of results, users will be able to quiz Gemini and dive deeper into their search without opening a new app.

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Circle To Search can now work while playing a mobile game, too. Samsung demonstrated this at a Galaxy Z Fold 7 briefing earlier this week and Google has now made it official. The idea is that if you’re struggling to get past a boss or area in a mobile game, activating Circle To Search will launch an AI Overview window (over the game) with tips and advice. There’s no need to exit the game, which will continue after the window is closed.

Google says that Circle To Search, with a selection of these new tools, is available to more than 300 million Android devices. Because of its ubiquity, Google considers its visual search tool a vehicle for spreading AI tech to as many phones as possible. The feature isn’t hardware-intensive and can run on virtually any phone. This is why we have seen repeated skill updates to Circle To Search.

In the last year, Google added full-page text translations, QR code scanning, song identification, text translation, maths problem solving, AI Overview summaries and now deeper AI Mode research.

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