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Tag: Google Assistant

New Apple Foundation Models contain ‘none’ of Google’s Gemini Assistant

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 4:00 pmTuesday, June 9, 2026No Comments

“The amount of Google Assistant we use is none,” Federighi said, emphasizing that Apple relies on none of the Gemini models Google deploys…

EU antitrust regulators focus on Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 11:10 am5 Comments

EU antitrust regulators said on Wednesday that the market dominance of Apple’s Siri, and knockoffs like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant…

Apple’s Siri accounts for 25% of voice assistant use worldwide

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 2:05 pm2 Comments

People like to rag on Apple’s Siri with near constant precision, but the fact of the matter is that the voice assistant has improved…

Apple Music is now available on Google Nest speakers and displays

Monday, December 7, 2020 12:02 pm1 Comment

Users of Google Nest and other Assistant-enabled speakers and displays can now ask Google Assistant to play from music from Apple Music …

Amazon Echo continues to dominate U.S. smart speaker market share

Monday, February 10, 2020 5:58 pmThursday, February 13, 20206 Comments

Amazon, which already holds a dominant position in the US smart speaker market, will continue to dominate U.S. smart speaker market share through 2021…

Over 500 million people use Google Assistant monthly

Tuesday, January 7, 2020 4:11 pmWednesday, January 8, 20201 Comment

Google said its digital assistant is used by more than 500 million people every month…

Apple open-sources portions of their HomeKit Accessory Development Kit

Thursday, December 19, 2019 3:02 pmThursday, December 19, 20193 Comments

Apple is open-sourcing portions of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit (ADK) in a move to accelerate development…

Apple, Google and Amazon decide to ‘play nice’ over smart home tech

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 3:46 pmWednesday, December 18, 20195 Comments

The highly competitive tech giants Apple, Google and Amazon have announced they are teaming up in an effort to make smart…

Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance join forces to develop open standard for smart home devices

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:46 am3 Comments

Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard…

Which is the smartest? Apple Siri vs. Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant

Friday, August 16, 2019 11:02 amFriday, August 16, 20199 Comments

As part of Loup Ventures’ ongoing effort to better understand the practical use cases of AI and the emergence of voice as a computing input, the firm regularly tests the most common digital assistants…

Alexa wins the Apple App Store as voice control takes over

Wednesday, July 17, 2019 10:30 pm3 Comments

We are all spending more time talking to our computers. This is a changing interaction with machines…

U.N. report on gendered technology calls Apple’s Siri sexist

Thursday, May 23, 2019 8:47 am27 Comments

Popular digital assistants that reply in a woman’s voice and are styled as female helpers are reinforcing sexist stereotypes…

The voice assistant war: What if nobody wins?

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:03 pmTuesday, January 15, 201914 Comments

One of the clearest developments that came out of 2018, and prominently on display last week….

Apple’s HomeKit was a surprise winner of CES 2019

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 12:02 pmWednesday, January 9, 20199 Comments

Without stepping foot in Las Vegas or making a single announcement of its own, Apple is having one of its best CES conferences in years…

Apple’s Siri has gotten a lot more accurate over the past 9 months

Friday, December 21, 2018 4:20 pmFriday, December 21, 201815 Comments

We recently tested four smart speakers by asking Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana…

AI guru John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

Thursday, December 20, 2018 1:55 pmThursday, December 20, 20182 Comments

Apple today announced that John Giannandrea has been named to the company’s executive team…

Like being tracked? Summon Google Assistant on your iPhone with Siri Shortcuts

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:45 amWednesday, November 21, 20183 Comments

Google has taken advantage of Siri Shortcuts in iOS to make its own Google Assistant…

The headphone wars have begun

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 11:25 amWednesday, October 3, 201814 Comments

The tech industry defines itself by answering the question of what’s next…

Sonos rises 15 percent in IPO debut

Thursday, August 2, 2018 11:34 am1 Comment

Sonos, the maker of smart speakers for the home, rose as much as 9 percent in its debut trade Thursday…

43 million people in the U.S. now own at least one smart speaker

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 2:00 pmWednesday, July 25, 20184 Comments

18 percent of American adults, or around 43 million people, now own a smart speaker…

Apple’s Siri improved by 11 percentage points in correct answers over the last 15 months

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 10:44 amWednesday, July 25, 20186 Comments

As part of our ongoing effort to better understand the practical use cases of AI and the emergence of voice as a computing input…

Google overtakes Amazon to lead in smart speaker market unit sales

Thursday, May 24, 2018 4:45 pmThursday, May 24, 20185 Comments

Smart speakers continue to be the world’s fastest-growing consumer technology segment…

Apple’s HomePod makes a small dent in smart speaker market in debut quarter

Friday, May 18, 2018 5:00 pmFriday, May 18, 201813 Comments

Apple officially jumped into the smart speaker market in the first quarter with the HomePod…

What Google isn’t telling us about its ‘Duplex’ AI demo

Thursday, May 17, 2018 5:33 pmThursday, May 17, 201834 Comments

Google made headlines by demonstrating an AI-powered voice assistant that made haircut and restaurant reservations…

Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 600,000 HomePods in Q1 for 6% share of smart speaker market

Thursday, May 17, 2018 4:35 pmThursday, May 31, 201814 Comments

Amazon and Google accounted for a dominant 70% share of global smart speaker shipments in Q1 2018 although their combined share has fallen from 84% in Q4 2017 and 94% in the year ago quarter…

Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant, and Apple’s Siri can hear this hidden command, but you can’t

Thursday, May 10, 2018 1:01 pmThursday, May 10, 20184 Comments

Over the past two years, researchers have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant…

Study: Google Assistant most accurate, Alexa most improved virtual assistant

Friday, April 27, 2018 3:28 pmFriday, April 27, 201829 Comments

Two more studies analyzing interactions with voice search and virtual assistants were released this week…

HomePod should become a hub for all Apple-centric needs

Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:43 pmThursday, March 15, 201815 Comments

Today the HomePod is all about music, but it could be so much more…

Hey Siri: give me a product development road map for AI

Thursday, March 15, 2018 1:38 pmThursday, March 15, 20187 Comments

Infighting, rushed development, and lack of vision have damaged Apple’s Siri development…

Former Apple employees reflect on Siri’s ‘squandered lead’ over Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant

Wednesday, March 14, 2018 2:03 pmWednesday, March 14, 201838 Comments

Review after review trashed Siri with words like ‘dopey,’ ‘annoying’ and ’embarrassingly inadequate’…

What Apple needs to do to improve Siri

Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:08 pmThursday, February 8, 201825 Comments

The HomePod is coming Friday, and with it, even more attention is being paid to Siri…

Amazon Alexa could make these smart glasses way better than Google Glass

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 2:25 pmWednesday, January 10, 201815 Comments

Amazon’s Alexa software has already made its way into just about every Internet-connected device…

Vuzix to debut first Amazon Alexa-enabled smart glasses at CES

Friday, January 5, 2018 5:30 pmFriday, January 5, 201816 Comments

The first augmented-reality glasses with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant will be shown…

Hey Siri, Google Assistant is winning in Artificial Intelligence and it’s not even close

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 11:00 amWednesday, October 11, 201740 Comments

Google might have a long way to go before it starts selling iPhone-like numbers..

Cornell study: Google AI boasts much higher IQ than Apple’s Siri

Thursday, October 5, 2017 5:01 pmThursday, October 5, 201742 Comments

Compared to Bing and Siri, Google’s artificial intelligent system is a cut above the competition…

Siri, why have you fallen behind other digital assistants?

Thursday, October 5, 2017 3:32 pmThursday, October 5, 201712 Comments

Apple has a reputation for entering markets late…

Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana to communicate with each other

Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:26 amWednesday, August 30, 20179 Comments

The crowded pack of voice-controlled digital assistants…

Video showdown: Apple’s Siri vs. Google Assistant

Friday, June 16, 2017 2:36 pm11 Comments

With developers already busy dissecting every major and minor change in iOS 11…

Why Google Assistant can’t beat Apple’s Siri for iPhone users

Friday, May 19, 2017 6:55 pm7 Comments

Some people think Google’s virtual assistant beats Siri in reliability and capability…

Google Assistant features that Apple’s Siri can’t currently match

Friday, May 19, 2017 3:25 pmFriday, May 19, 20179 Comments

Earlier this week, Google finally put the Google Assistant onto iPhones..

Alphabet to push Google Assistant to iPhone as standalone app via Apple’s App Store

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 9:30 amTuesday, May 16, 201710 Comments

Google is set to announce a version of its AI-powered assistant for Apple Inc.’s iPhone as soon as Wednesday…

Apple’s Siri has a huge language advantage

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 11:36 am16 Comments

We live on an international planet….

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