Alexa often asks me, unprompted, if I’d like it to give me a heads-up when snow is forecasted. It’s an unexpectedly proactive gesture. Except here in the San Francisco Bay Area, snow is never in the ...

Google Assistant was supposed to be Google’s future. The voice assistant was an early attempt at ambient computing that gave customers a one-on-one relationship with all of the company’s products.

Apple and Amazon simply won’t be able to compete with Google’s virtual assistant over the next few years. Apple’s Siri virtual assistant is the best-known out there. Amazon dominates the home ...

In this test, Siri mainly has problems handling multiple countdowns. On the HomePod or even the Apple Watch, Siri can set multiple countdowns, while on the iPhone, Siri can only set one countdown. In ...

Why this is important: Amazon recently launched Alexa+, a service that brings similar functionality to the Alexa platform.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. AI has made virtual assistants a big deal again. So far, it looks like ChatGPT, Siri, Alexa, and the rest are all ...

It's not a search engine; it's a voice assistant. When OpenAI randomly shared late last week that it would have a big announcement to kick off Monday, rumors swirled. Was OpenAI planning to try to ...

Apple is reportedly in advanced talks to integrate Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence models to power a major upgrade to ...

Alexa has evolved far beyond its origins as a simple voice assistant for setting reminders and playing music. After 11 years, ...

Automakers constantly seek new ways to deliver a connected, personalized, seamless driving experience. One way to do that is to embed communications and entertainment features directly into a vehicle, ...