Hello! I’m Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (aka Jen), The Verge’s sensible house reviewer. I simply spent the final week in New York Metropolis testing the brand new sensible shows, sensible audio system, sensible voice assistants, and sensible safety cameras launched by Amazon and Google. I haven’t examined any of them but, however I’ve had some hands-on time with the brand new devices and spoken with people at each firms concerning the new options.
I’m internet hosting a subscriber-only AMA on the location immediately, Friday, October third. Simply ask your questions within the feedback on this publish, and my editor, Nathan Edwards, and I’ll be a part of you right here at 1 PM ET to reply as many as we will.
Then, on Wednesday, Google introduced an enormous overhaul of its sensible house efforts. The headline is that it’s lastly bringing its Gemini AI absolutely into Google House with Gemini for House, a brand new, smarter LLM-powered voice assistant for Google House audio system that replaces Google Assistant.
This new breed of smarter AI is lastly coming to the sensible house. I do know you have got questions, and I hope I’ve the solutions!