The move to on-device AI reshapes economies and industries where intelligence is woven into daily life, but introduces challenges in privacy, energy, and dependency.

Beyond “basic” photo editing, Google’s AI photo editing can remove unwanted objects and people, sharpen blurry photos, add smiles to grumpy people in group photos, and even add the photographer into group shots. This is a level of photo processing that was only accessible to Photoshop masters even a few years go.