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Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
"Goodbye 'Hey Google', hello 'Hey Gemini, why are you hallucinating?'"
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Google is officially pulling the plug on the legacy Assistant app in favor of Gemini across Android devices and wearables starting September 4th. While the legacy tech was reliable for timers, Google is betting the entire farm on LLM-based interactions despite the friction of the transition. This marks the definitive end of the 'smart assistant' era and the start of the 'AI agent' takeover.
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