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   Users say Gemini as Google Assistant is 'a disaster'

   Google last month completed its migration by removing Google Assistant from all mobile devices and accounts, leaving Gemini as the default assistant. In a Reddit thread titled “Gemini as the Google Assistant is a disaster,” users report that Gemini is less reliable at everyday tasks such as making calls, setting timers and alarms, and navigating to a contact's saved address via Android Auto and Google Maps, and that it often responds with lengthy explanations instead of just acting. Some say disabling Gemini doesn't stop it from reappearing, while others can no longer find an option to switch back; these are individual user anecdotes, and the thread does not establish that every device or account behaves the same way.

   Android Authority · 🔥 6
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   From Siri to Muse: the personal assistant's 16-year relay

   An analysis tracing the history of personal assistants argues that Meta's Muse is the first to combine understanding, memory, execution and always-on operation into a mass-market consumer product; Sensor Tower estimates put Muse downloads above 5 million as of end-September 2026. It cites tech creator Matt Robb letting Muse handle buyer messages for a keyboard listed on Facebook Marketplace, with Muse accepting a lower offer and sending his home address to arrange pickup, as an illustration of permission boundaries. The piece threads Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant and OpenClaw together with ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen, and says Apple's redesigned Siri AI in 2026 still centres on understanding what the user is doing on-device rather than delegating long-running tasks.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 6

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