Table of Contents Table of Contents What is Perplexity Assistant? Beating Siri in Apple’s backyard It can talk with apps “Hey Siri, book me a table for four people, 7 PM, at Blue Tokai coffee shop in New Friends Colony.” “Do you want me to use ChatGPT to answer that?” That’s how my exchange with … Read more
Kagi’s “Assistant” feature, previously only available to Ultimate subscribers, is now rolling out to all tiers — including the free trial tier. The feature gives you access to a range of different LLMs for both chatting and web-searching purposes. If you don’t know much about Kagi, it’s a paid search engine that borrows its name … Read more
A Google Assistant bug is causing chaos with Do Not Disturb profiles and causing users to miss alarms, appointments, and more. The bug was first reported on Reddit earlier today by u/Rawalanche, who claimed it started when Pixel received new Do Not Disturb modes. Their report states that any non-standard DnD profile, such as one … Read more
Owners of LG smart TVs made since 2018 are waking up to an unexpected message on their screens notifying them that, as of May 1, Google Assistant will no longer be supported. The change follows a similar moves by Samsung, and Panasonic. According to 9to5Google, the full message reads: Google Assistant Service TerminationGoogle Assistant will … Read more
Amazon introduced a new AI-charged version of Alexa a few weeks ago, and as promised, has finally started rolling out early access to it. Alexa+, as the company likes to call it, is currently limited to a handful of devices. But it seems the preview phase will also skip on some of its most advanced … Read more
If you’re still using Waze as your favorite GPS app, you’ll be seeing the loss of a certain function. Waze is ending its support for Google Assistant in the iOS version of the app. A representative for the company took to the Waze public forum yesterday to announce that it will be phasing out Google … Read more
We’ve only just learned that Google Assistant is being replaced with Gemini, and now, it turns out that some features are being quietly retired as a result. Some will be available as part of Gemini, but devices that don’t yet have access to Google’s latest AI companion may not have an immediate replacement. Here’s what’s … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents What devices are moving to Gemini? How are things changing with Gemini? Why is this a better deal? 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 … Read more
Apple’s efforts with putting advanced AI capabilities across its ecosystem, the way Google has implemented them with Gemini, have a lot of ground left to cover. Among them is the Siri virtual assistant, which has remained a laggard and still hasn’t received the features Apple showcased at its developers conference last year. Now, the company … Read more
In 2023, rumors of a new Google AI assistant (nicknamed “Pixie”) began to emerge. The idea of an on-device smart assistant appealed for a number of reasons, privacy and performance among them, but it missed its planned launch date. Google hasn’t said anything else about it, until now — Pixie is back as Pixel Sense, … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents How can I access Alexa+? What’s new with the Alexa+ assistant? A companion for everyone, and everything Going far deeper than Alexa ever could Amazon is finally pushing ahead into a new era of digital assistants with Alexa+, a next-gen version of Alexa that is powered by generative AI … Read more
Honor’s Yoyo Assistant, an AI agent designed to learn its users preferences, is combining with DeepSeek-R1 to up its language processing and performance. The planned result is a more capable assistant that better understands requests and context. There’s no global launch date for this upgrade yet, but it MagicOS 8.0+ users began to see it … Read more
If you interact with Google Assistant through the JBL Link Drive or Anker Roav Bolt, we have bad news: the microphones might be shutting down soon, if the code found in the Google app beta is any indication. The folks at 9to5Google stumbled across the code strings in an APK teardown that provided insight into … Read more
Did we really need another AI assistant on the iPhone? Perhaps not, but a new one has arrived. Le Chat, developed by Mistral, is a French-based AI assistant that was previously only available online. It has now been launched on the App Store and Google Play Store. Once called Europe’s great hope for AI, Le … Read more
Adobe announced a new multimodal capability for its Acrobat AI Assistant that can analyze legal documents to “demystify complex language, summarize key terms and identify differences across multiple contracts,” all with a single click. It’s called, unsurprisingly, Contracts AI. Contracts is capable of interpreting both digital and scanned documents, automatically identifying contracts as such. The … Read more