The Google Pixel 9 walked so that the Samsung Galaxy S26 could run.
Google introduced AI editing tools to Photos slowly. It started with changes to the background — make the sky more blue, or remove crowds of tourists. Things got weird once the company added natural language requests and let you ask for basically any change. There were some guardrails, but in many cases it was easy to prompt your way around them into creating a potentially harmful image of something that never happened — helicopter crashes, smoking bombs on street corners, that kind of thing.
That’s the world Samsung’s updated Photo Assist steps into. At Unpacked in February, the company announced that its suite of AI editing tools in the gallery app on the S26 would add support for natural language…