A new Android feature lets OEMs mark certain voice assistants as "optimized" for your device. Here's what that really means.

The deprioritized Google Assistant is losing yet another feature. This time Google is killing off support for third-party note integration. The popular Android note-taking app AnyList announced ...

Google is supercharging its Assistant app with Bard's capabilities. The new "Assistant with Bard" is designed to merge the voice assistant with the chatbot. "We're moving away from voice as the ...

Google has announced that it will focus on quality and reliability for its voice assistant, Google Assistant, by removing almost 20 features starting January 26. The features being removed include ...

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 Assistant as we knew it is on the way out. Well, at least its guts. Late last year, Google added AI capabilities from its chatbot Bard to Google Assistant, allowing the virtual helper to ...

After just nine years, Google is moving Assistant to the graveyard. Last fall, Google announced it was officially replacing Assistant, the default Android assistant on your phone, with Gemini.

It's been clear for some time that the Gemini AI app would be replacing Google Assistant, once it had learned all the necessary tricks and been granted all the required hooks into other apps.