When Google launched the Pixel 10 line last month, it gave as much attention to its AI-enabled software tricks as it did the hardware upgrades. But now, less than two weeks after the Pixel 10 series hit store shelves, its already pulled one of those AI features: Daily Hub, which collects the weather and your day’s calendar events, and recommends online content you might want to read, watch, or listen to.
In fairness to Google, Daily Hub was only ever in a “public preview,” rather than a full release, but that hadn’t stopped the company from advertising the phones with it. The company has now paused that preview, a spokesperson telling 9to5Google that it is “actively working to enhance its performance and refine the personalized experience.” Apparently Google will reintroduce “an improved Daily Hub when it’s ready.”
The public preview meant that Daily Hub hadn’t appeared on every Pixel 10 yet anyway — my 10 Pro XL press sample never got it. My colleague Allison did get to try Daily Hub, but going by her impressions it may be for the best that Google is pulling it for now:
If voice translation is halfway between a helpful feature and a gimmick, then Daily Hub leans even further into gimmick territory. It’s a lot like the Now Brief Samsung introduced on its S25 phones, and it’s supposed to act as a quick digest for your day as well as a place to find some inspiration based on your recent activity. It does the first part of that job just fine; it’s maybe a more longwinded version of Google’s At a Glance widget, which gives you a heads up on the weather and upcoming calendar events. But it also misconstrued some of my recent Google search history in puzzling and hilarious ways. I looked up the schedule for our recycling service, provided by Waste Management, and it took that to mean that I’m interested in learning more about waste management generally. Uh, not quite.
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