New York (CNN) — How many apps does it take to plan a work meeting or a dinner with friends? It likely involves bouncing between your text messaging app, an email app, a navigation app like Google Maps and perhaps a reservation app like Resy or Opentable.
Google wants to cut down on that back-and-forth with a tool coming to its newly announced Pixel 10 phones, announced on Wednesday and launching on August 28. The feature, called Magic Cue, uses artificial intelligence to analyze what you’re doing on your phone and suggest the next action.
The concept isn’t entirely new, and the tech isn’t advanced enough to handle sophisticated tasks. But it could set the stage for more dramatic alterations to how smartphones operate in the age of AI, a goal that Apple and other phone makers are also c