Google Assistant joins Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Samsung's Bixby, and Microsoft's Cortana in the lineup of digital ...

Alongside the 17 feature deprecations, you will soon lose the ability to launch Google Assistant with the microphone icon on Pixel devices. The microphone icon in the search bar that appears at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google launched the Google Assistant in 2016. Since then, Google's first-gen virtual assistant has spread to pretty much every ...