The Gemini interface is a simple one: you input your question or comment at the bottom of the screen, and the answer appears at the top. There are four ways you can interact with

Earlier this year Google announced that Google Assistant would be getting some improvements, all thanks to the Gemini AI. The idea is that Assistant will be a lot more conversational, so the user feels less like they’re talking to a robot and more like there could be a real person on the other end of the line.

Even back when Gemini was simply called Bard, we had the notion that Google Assistant was on life support. Now that Google has massaged Gemini into Android’s very core, we know that it will sunset Assistant sooner or later. Well, Android 16 might make Gemini much more of an assistant than Google Assistant.

Gemini has a couple of menus you can access, forcing users to remember the correct menu to click. This could soon be fixed with a cleanup.

One of its promises for the smarter Siri we’ll supposedly get in iOS 18 is that it will be able to take action in apps for you. By updating its app intents framework, Apple has created a way for developers to expose “order food”-type functions to Siri.

Google has fleshed out the Gemini app as a gateway to most of the AI capabilities the company has developed in the last two years, going as far as giving users an option to replace Assistant with Gemini.

The 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship kicks off today, Monday, November 25, with Google as its key title sponsor. The tech giant, which has used chess as a proving ground for its