{"id":359765,"date":"2025-08-20T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359765\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:42:10","slug":"google-signs-stephen-curry-to-pitch-its-pixel-health-and-ai-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359765\/","title":{"rendered":"Google signs Stephen Curry to pitch its Pixel, health, and AI gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape the company\u2019s hardware, features, and AI services. The long-term partnership was announced today at the Made by Google event, with Curry joining the company as a \u201cperformance advisor\u201d for Google\u2019s Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, leaning into his athletic experience and expertise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Part of Curry\u2019s job will involve testing and providing feedback for Fitbit\u2019s new personal health coach, sharing \u201ccoaching methods and philosophies\u201d that can be used to improve the feature, according to Google\u2019s press release. The health coach is a Gemini-based chatbot that generates customized workout routines and metric targets for Fitbit app users based on the health goals they\u2019re working towards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cThis hands-on work has already begun, with Stephen and his team of experts working with our health experts and product and AI engineers to test our new products and experiences, giving us incredibly valuable feedback,\u201d says Google\u2019s platforms and devices head, Rick Osterloh. \u201cStephen\u2019s elite insights and our AI technology aren\u2019t just for sports \u2014 our work together will show how anyone can use these products and features to maintain a healthier lifestyle and get more done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">As expected, this partnership also means Curry and his team will be contract-bound to use Google\u2019s hardware portfolio, including Pixel phones, watches, and earbuds. Curry is also implementing AI tools like Google Cloud\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/links\/8836598\/type\/dlg\/https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/transform\/how-we-built-an-ai-basketball-coach-with-gemini-on-vertex-ai\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI Basketball Coach<\/a> into his student training programs, which Google says can help to \u201cperfect your jump shot\u201d \u2014 something Curry probably doesn\u2019t need much help with himself, with a 42 percent average on three pointers for his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The team-up will likely result in Curry making some branded content appearances, but we will have to wait and see if Google makes any meaningful product improvements under Curry\u2019s guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape the company\u2019s hardware, features, and AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,77,867,868,105,12,70,79,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-359765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-google-pixel","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tech","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115061859582271328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}