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Digital Assistants News 17 July 2025 - 14 September 2025

Smart Home Showdown 2025: Google Nest vs Alexa, HomeKit & the Rest – Which Ecosystem Rules?

The Post-Assistant Era: Google’s Gemini Comes Home – What It Means for Your Smart Home

A New AI Voice Assistant for the Home: Gemini for Home Nearly a decade after introducing Google Assistant as a handy voice helper, Google is now giving its smart home ecosystem a radical upgrade. Gemini for Home is an all-new AI voice assistant that will “eventually replace Google Assistant” on all Nest-brand smart speakers and smart displays theverge.com. Announced in August 2025 by Google’s Nest team, Gemini for Home is built on the company’s latest large language model (LLM) technology (the same family of AI models behind Google’s Gemini chatbot). This means it can understand and respond to far more
14 September 2025
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AI Voice Clones Are Taking Over – Inside the Synthetic Voice Revolution of 2025

SoundHound AI: The Voice Tech Disruptor Challenging Siri, Alexa, and Wall Street Expectations

SoundHound AI’s Business Model and History SoundHound AI began as a Stanford dorm room idea and evolved into a significant player in voice technology. Co-founder and CEO Keyvan Mohajer started the company in 2005 with a vision of a voice-enabled world, inspired by sci-fi concepts of speaking naturally to computers highperformr.ai. The company’s early claim to fame was a music recognition app (originally called Midomi, later rebranded as the SoundHound app) that could identify songs by listening – a direct competitor to Shazam en.wikipedia.org. By 2012, that app had over 100 million users, establishing SoundHound in audio AI en.wikipedia.org. Around
14 September 2025
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OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent – The AI Assistant That Can Plan, Shop and Make PowerPoints For You

OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent – The AI Assistant That Can Plan, Shop and Make PowerPoints For You

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent on July 17, 2025, turning ChatGPT into a personal AI assistant capable of autonomously handling multi-step tasks. The agent uses a built-in “virtual computer” to browse the web, fill forms, run code, and produce Excel spreadsheets or PowerPoint presentations on the user’s behalf. It can manage schedules and plans by checking your calendar and finding free times to reserve tables via OpenTable. It can perform online research and compile concise reports or analyses, including trend summaries. It can shop online, compare options with criteria you specify, and place orders with your permission. It can generate editable
17 July 2025
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