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Home Assistant 2026.3 brings room-by-room cleaning for robot vacuums, an Android voice assistant with a local wake word, more reliable automations, and numerous interface and energy improvements.

Home Assistant has released version 2026.3, which is a smaller update that focuses on cleaning up and improving features that are already in place. Rather than adding a lot of big new headline items, ...

Project Hail Mary’s directors find Rocky’s voice where, question? Chris Miller and Phil Lord didn’t need to look far, as they wound up choosing someone who had already been pulling the strings behind ...

Amazon is making its AI-upgraded Alexa+ assistant available to everyone in the U.S. Alexa+ launched last year in an "early access" preview, meaning consumers had to join a waitlist or buy a new device ...

Update, 2:09 p.m. ET: Speechify also launched a ChatGPT integration today. See new details below. Speechify’s AI Voice Assistant can now sound like celebrities, including Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow, ...

Google's AI world-building tech Project Genie, rolled out to US users only, enables the creation of 60-second virtual worlds. Shares in Take-Two, Roblox and Unity fell on the news of the announcement.

An assistant principal in Georgia is facing serious charges after being caught in a shocking shoplifting scheme that played out over several weeks at Walmart — and it wasn’t a petty crime. Courtney ...

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky used AI to travel back in time 250 years ago to the American Revolution. But he tapped real-life human actors to provide voices in documenting key events of the country’s ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users and then shared their private conversations with ...

Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle claims its voice assistant illegally spied on users to, among other things, serve them advertisements, Reuters reports. Google did not admit wrongdoing in ...