I was excited for Gemini on Android Auto, until I tried it — it could be much better
…A lot of my chagrin comes from a very impressive demo of the AI-powered voice assistant running on a car head unit at Mountain View at IO 2025. This demo was…
…A lot of my chagrin comes from a very impressive demo of the AI-powered voice assistant running on a car head unit at Mountain View at IO 2025. This demo was…
…02 / 8 Gemini AI What was Google's AI assistant called before it was rebranded to Gemini in early 2024? A Google Assistant B LaMDA C Bard D Duet AI That's…
…Yet, complaints about the entire Google Home ecosystem , from speakers to voice assistants, have been deafening, especially considering the number of bugs and issues we’ve all run into. It’s no…
…Instead, it'll boot up an AI assistant. Google took everything we hated about AI buttons , and ported it over to the button we actually used. Almost every time I've booted…
…getting thousands of repos ready for AI Early in the rollout, we kept seeing the same failure mode: coding agents produced changes that looked plausible and were still wrong for the repo…
Ben Khalesi May 26, 2026, 11:15 AM EDT I’ve been covering Android since 2023, when I joined Android Police, mostly focusing on AI and everything around Pixel and Galaxy phones…
…Photo Assist now lets you generate AI images using different Photo assist features without saving each iteration. When you’re done, you can review all your creations in your history and pick…
…Those notebooks also sync directly with Google's AI research assistant NotebookLM , allowing you to create a host of different outputs, like video overviews, charts and more. One of the main differentiators…
…A future of AI in cars Hand on heart, I have steadily come around to AI integration – provided it is done correctly. The downside to that is that we simply do not…
…Google's research assistant tool added an Audio Overview feature that creates AI-hosted podcast-style discussions from your documents, making it the closest sibling to Illuminate in Google's product lineup…