Google is adding Continued Conversation to Gemini for Home, letting Nest and Google Home users ask follow-up questions without repeating the wake phrase every time.

The new agent will enter public beta in the Firefly web app within weeks; anyone can join the waitlist now, and usage will draw from existing generative credit pools. Firefly's new controls add studio ...

Apple plans to open its Siri voice assistant to rival artificial intelligence (AI) services, moving beyond its partnership with OpenAI, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. Some subscribers prefer to ...

Google is back with a second big update to Gemini for Home this month that notably improves the voice assistant. There are a number of updates to the Gemini for Home voice assistant today. Google has ...

Apple CarPlay is quite useful for techie drivers who want to use their iPhones for navigation, entertainment, and other tasks while driving. But even though this car interface is designed to reduce ...

After disrupting nearly every white-collar job, AI is coming for a new career: fast-food restaurant manager. Burger King is debuting a new AI assistant, and is putting a voice AI directly into its ...

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Alexa responds with “All systems operational” in the new Brief personality mode on an Echo Show. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Tired of Alexa’s constant chatter? Wish Amazon’s voice assistant would ...

Google Home is adding premade voice assistant actions that simplify automation setup inside the app. Users can now quickly trigger tasks like weather updates or music. The update also adds an option ...

Google Home is getting a set of new premade voice assistant actions. Google calls them pre-defined actions, but the point is, you can skip a lot of the busywork that makes actions in automations a ...

Even with the full rollout of Amazon's Alexa+ and Google's Gemini for Home, it feels like we're still shouting into the void. Reading time 3 minutes After about a decade in the making, new voice ...

Amazon is making its AI-upgraded Alexa+ assistant available to everyone in the U.S. Alexa+ launched last year in an "early access" preview, meaning consumers had to join a waitlist or buy a new device ...