Google pulls the Pixel 10’s Daily Hub to ‘enhance its performance’

Daily Hub aims to harvester utile info with curated recommendations, but lone sometimes succeeds.

When Google launched the Pixel 10 line past month, it gave arsenic overmuch attraction to its AI-enabled bundle tricks arsenic it did the hardware upgrades. But now, little than 2 weeks aft the Pixel 10 bid deed store shelves, its already pulled 1 of those AI features: Daily Hub, which collects the upwind and your day’s calendar events, and recommends online contented you mightiness privation to read, watch, oregon perceive to.

In fairness to Google, Daily Hub was lone ever successful a “public preview,” alternatively than a afloat release, but that hadn’t stopped the institution from advertising the phones with it. The institution has present paused that preview, a spokesperson telling 9to5Google that it is “actively moving to heighten its show and refine the personalized experience.” Apparently Google volition reintroduce “an improved Daily Hub erstwhile it’s ready.”

The nationalist preview meant that Daily Hub hadn’t appeared connected each Pixel 10 yet anyhow — my 10 Pro XL property illustration ne'er got it. My workfellow Allison did get to effort Daily Hub, but going by her impressions it whitethorn beryllium for the champion that Google is pulling it for now:

If dependable translation is halfway betwixt a adjuvant diagnostic and a gimmick, past Daily Hub leans adjacent further into gimmick territory. It’s a batch similar the Now Brief Samsung introduced connected its S25 phones, and it’s expected to enactment arsenic a speedy digest for your time arsenic good arsenic a spot to find immoderate inspiration based connected your caller activity. It does the archetypal portion of that occupation conscionable fine; it’s possibly a much longwinded mentation of Google’s At a Glance widget, which gives you a heads up connected the upwind and upcoming calendar events. But it besides misconstrued immoderate of my caller Google hunt past successful puzzling and hilarious ways. I looked up the docket for our recycling service, provided by Waste Management, and it took that to mean that I’m funny successful learning much astir discarded management generally. Uh, not quite.