… In an email, Fortune’s editor in chief, Alyson Shontell, tried to steer me away from the idea that AI was taking over the jobs of reporters under her watch. “Importantly, Lichtenberg is not using it as a writing replacement,” she wrote. “His stories are ai assisted versus ai written. …
… The company also demoed an agentic assistant called Spark that lives in Google’s Cloud and has access to its apps. …
… I don't miss talking to those annoying AI-powered assistants. …
…Metalenz says more than 300 million of its metasurfaces are already used in consumer devices today, replacing bulky traditional optics in time-of-flight sensors that capture depth information and assist with…
… Made of natural fabric and wood, it's a high-design flat speaker that comes with Google Assistant onboard—or you can buy it without a smart assistant for the same price. …
… My first task was to read a conversation between a user and “the assistant,” one of the major large-language chatbot models. Using a “bible” that dictated how the assistant should respond, I was to assess the chat as a success or a failure. …
… And third-party app support has been replaced by native Google apps, like Maps, with Google Assistant joining Amazon’s Alexa. …
… The Android Show focused on new features in Android 17, the next version of Android coming later this summer, as well as several updates to the Gemini assistant experience. …
… Until now, when Google rolls out a new set of features for Android or its Gemini assistant, it often also announces some of those capabilities for other platforms, like Wear OS smartwatches, Android Auto, or Google Home. …
… These people are not graduating into a market where everyone's going, "I don't need an assistant. …