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Google may be ramping up its efforts to infuse Google Assistant with Bard’s generative AI abilities, but it will also be trimming more than a dozen existing Assistant features, including several that ...

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 ...

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 make ...

I’ll be honest: I was really hoping for an “aha!” moment over these past few days. Still, despite its shortcomings, Assistant knew what it was all about. It was a service with a purpose, and Google ...

Beginning life on the Google Home and Pixel, the Assistant has proliferated practically every product you’ve used since it was unveiled in 2016. In all honesty, it hasn’t changed all that much since ...

Google Assistant is getting an AI-powered update. At today’s Made By Google live event, the company introduced Assistant with Bard, a new version of its popular mobile personal assistant that’s now ...

Is the Google Assistant doomed? The evidence is starting to pile up that the division is going down the tubes. The latest is news from CNBC’s Jennifer Elias that says the Google Assistant division has ...