With scammers costing victims $1 trillion each year, Google is fighting back with the help of AI and Pixel smartphone users are first in line. Here’s what we know.

Scammers steal nearly $1 trillion annually, and most of it is through phone call fraud. With scammers becoming more sophisticated and harder to identify, Google's new Scam Detection will scan phone calls in real-time to protect users from fraud before it can occur.

The Pixel 9 Pro is powered by the new Google Tensor G4 SoC, an upgrade from the Tensor G3 in the Pixel 8 series. It has 1x Cortex-X4 @ 3.1GHz; 3x Cortex-A720 @ 2.6GHz; and 4x Cortex-A520 @ 1.92GHz with Mali-G715 MP7 GPU and also has Titan M2 security chip. This still uses Samsung’s 4nm process tech.

One of the Gemini AI-powered features Google introduced at I/O this year was a solution for never-ending scam calls. It has the capability to detect whether a call is suspicious while it's still ongoing and can alert you so that you could drop the call as soon as possible.

Two new Android security features are now available for users in the U..S, and will soon make their way to older Android devices as well.

Google has announced two new real-time security privacy protections for Android, and they're rolling out now on supported Pixel devices.