Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data
…flags events from your Calendar. But Gemini Spark is diving deeper into your information, as Google is pitching it as an AI personal assistant that can work across connected Workspace apps…
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Walmart is updating its 4K streaming box with Gemini and Matter support
…The biggest updates to the Onn 4K Pro include the addition of Google Gemini support facilitating better hands-free voice control, searching, and recommendations, and Matter-over-Thread compatibility so the streamer…
Apple punts on Siri updates as it struggles to keep up in the AI race
…For example, ahead of Google’s I/O conference last month, Android users were the first to get free access to a live Gemini feature that allowed the AI assistant to see…
Apple announces Siri AI and its next generation of Apple Intelligence
…Apple calls Siri AI an “entirely new version of Siri” and says it’s both more conversational and more capable than the previous version of the smart assistant. In conversations, it has…
Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 series hands-on: squircle squad
…Gemini on the wrist can do everything that Assistant can, and then some. Specifically, you can ask it to do things that require multiple apps in a sequential order. It’s hard…
If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over the past six months, that has started to change…
As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise
This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent — Spark — from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It’s so effective…
Google’s Pixel Watch 4 has big ideas — and an even bigger focus on AI
…As far as AI smartwatch assistants, Google has beaten Apple to the punch. (Technically, Samsung got Gemini on a smartwatch first, but Gemini is Google’s baby.) Satellite SOS on a smartwatch…
Netflix has its own, impressive AI-powered voice search
…With the emergence of LLMs, both services now extend those privileges for more full-featured voice assistance. YouTube recently launched its own conversational AI tools, allowing viewers to access Gemini-powered voice…
The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
…They’ll support features like live translation, navigation assistance with Gemini, and notification summaries. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Universal-Cart-intelligent-insights.jpg?quality…