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Sony announces AI Camera Assistant for Xperia 1 VIII

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Sony announced an AI Camera Assistant feature for the Xperia 1 VIII smartphone. The tool analyzes subject, scene, and weather data to recommend settings such as color balance, exposure, bokeh levels, and lens selection. The announcement appeared in an official post on the company's Xperia account and drew comments from two engineers on the firm's $125 billion market capitalization and competitive dynamics.

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how $125 billion market cap company came to thoroughly enjoy the smell of their own AI garbage must be studied

8:04 AM · May 14, 2026 View on X

how $125 billion market cap company came to thoroughly enjoy the smell of their own AI garbage must be studied

3:04 PM · May 14, 2026 · 18K Views

my rough understanding of comp photography and mirrorless cameras is that nothing stops us from stacking 30 differently exposed images and doing iphone-like clever ml to get a pareto better image. but this is not it :(

maybe codex can one-shot this

5:43 AM · May 15, 2026 · 9.2K Views

let’s see if he can do it

Aidan McLaughlinAidan McLaughlin@aidan_mclau

my rough understanding of comp photography and mirrorless cameras is that nothing stops us from stacking 30 differently exposed images and doing iphone-like clever ml to get a pareto better image. but this is not it :( maybe codex can one-shot this

5:43 AM · May 15, 2026 · 9.2K Views
5:48 AM · May 15, 2026 · 2.2K Views

Japan is speedrunning their companies into the ground while the Koreans and Chinese are happy to take their business

Crazy to watch

3:51 PM · May 14, 2026 · 442K Views

Japan's biggest problem is they suck at software, have always sucked at software and will keep sucking at software

Now that the most important thing is AI, which Taiwan builds the chips for with memory from Korea, they completely missed the boat on the hardware part (which they used to be still good at)

And because they can't do software, they're going to alienate the last of their customers with AI features that suck because they can't do software

@levelsio@levelsio@levelsio

Japan is speedrunning their companies into the ground while the Koreans and Chinese are happy to take their business Crazy to watch

3:51 PM · May 14, 2026 · 442K Views
3:58 PM · May 14, 2026 · 374.8K Views

Probably the most publicity the Xperia has received in recent years Good for sales lol

2:09 PM · May 15, 2026 · 18.7K Views

is this a fucking prank? are you pranking me right now?

4:10 PM · May 14, 2026 · 24.3K Views
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