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Delays in core features could stall everything from Vision Pro to smart home devices, just as rivals double down on smarter assistants.

The improved Alexa finally debuts with better conversation skills and smart home features. Can Amazon convince users to pay when smartphones offer similar features for free?

After the Ai Pin flop, Humane shifts gears, marketing its AI-powered assistant CosmOS for devices like cars and smart homes, but competition is fierce.

By using Siri and the Matter standard, Apple could dominate the IoT market with a seamless smart home ecosystem.

On-device value: Google, Apple, Amazon, and others are racing to get AI assistants into smartphones and smart home products, but consumer interest is lukewarm. 47% said AI assistants wouldn鈥檛 be valuable in smart home devices and 43% wouldn鈥檛 find them useful in smartphones.

Despite economic headwinds slowing growth, most smart home IoT device categories continue to gain users looking for increased capabilities.

Google has singled out Android and AI as its key areas of focus for developers despite laying off hundreds of Android and Pixel employees earlier this month and deprecating some of its Nest smart home products this week. Android is the vital cog: The ecosystem鈥檚 expansion gives Google a unified platform to reach billions of global users across devices.

Nova Act is expected to be the key AI component of the Alexa + voice and smart home assistant. Amazon is following in the footsteps of other Big Tech companies releasing AI agents that are ripe for add-ons to existing products and services.

How time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stack up in China.

On Android devices, the generative AI (genAI) assistant will start taking over for Google Assistant within the next few months, and Google will end all access to the traditional assistant later this year. In smart home devices, connected TVs (CTVs), watches, and headphones, the rollout will be more gradual, with further details planned 鈥渋n the next few months,鈥� Google said on its blog.

Most of them have larger appliances and smart home ecosystems, guaranteeing seamless integration with existing devices. Recent robot vacuum reviews from Wired and Vacuum Wars gave Roborock鈥檚 Qrevo S model top marks, indicating Roomba鈥檚 segment leadership is slipping. Marketing challenge: iRobot鈥檚 product launch this week of half a dozen new models risks being overshadowed by concerns over its future.

How time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stacks up in South and Southeast Asia.

How time spent with media, device ownership, and media adoption stacks up in Western Europe.

Media habits in Canada have changed, favoring digital across all formats. The GMI report for Canada is a single source for quantifying the pace of change in time spent with media, media adoption, and device ownership.

Collegiate researchers used it to see how humanoid robots can serve as smart home products. A demo video showed a visually impaired woman navigating a grocery store with assistance from the glasses. Future consumer use cases: If the technology makes its way into a mainstream Meta product, it could be used as a health-focused wearable or offer remote assistance with tasks.

All of the categories we track鈥攊ncluding mobile ecommerce buyers, shoppers, smart home control users, information seekers, and audio listeners鈥攕how a similar pattern of high initial growth rates followed by a significant slowdown. For example, smart home control user growth peaked at 68.6% in 2018 before declining to 4.2% in 2024, indicating a maturing market across various applications.

On today's episode, we discuss why anchoring augmented reality (AR) experiences to exact locations matters, how the smartphone will transform the smart home, why Apple will revise its app commission policies, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jessica Lis and Yory Wurmser.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss what artificial general intelligence (AGI) is capable of, why everyone is rushing to create it, and how close we are to reaching it. "In Other News," we talk about 'Ready Player One' becoming a metaverse experience and how we will start controlling our smart homes. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Jacob Bourne and Gadjo Sevilla.