Google walked back its plans to remove the Assistant in 2025, stating it will take another look for a "seamless" transition.

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Google is still intent on replacing Google Assistant with Gemini, but the change won't be happening quite as quickly as ...

Google has a habit of announcing the future with great confidence and then quietly clearing its throat a few months later.

The writing has been on the wall for a while, but the shift away from Google Assistant is now official. Google has announced that it will shift users to Gemini as the default AI assistant on their ...

Google is slowly going to mothball its mobile phone assistant as it pushes uptake of its AI chatbot, Gemini. In a move that will surprise no one, Google is going to phase out Assistant stating that it ...

Google will replace Google Assistant on Android phones with Gemini later this year, the company announced on Friday. Google said in a blog post that it’ll upgrade more users from Google Assistant to ...

Google Assistant is evolving into Gemini, bringing powerful new AI capabilities but also discontinuing some favorite features. If you use Google Assistant to set timers, play music or control your ...

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Samsung integrated Google Assistant into its TVs back in 2020, but now, that whole project is dead. Google Assistant isn’t exactly rare on TVs, with the voice assistant available on virtually all ...

This time last year, I was about to move into a new house, and I made the decision to say goodbye to Google Assistant and hello to Amazon Alexa for all my smart home duties. Now, almost a year later, ...