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Home & Consumer · 3 min read

Google Opens Gemini AI to Third-Party Smart Home Hardware With New Built-In Program

Google launched Gemini Built-In, a licensing program extending Gemini AI to third-party smart speakers and cameras — taking Google conversational AI beyond Nest devices into the broader smart home market for the first time.

May 24

Home & Consumer · 3 min read

Google Brings Persistent AI Conversations to the Smart Home With Gemini Update

Google revived 'continued conversations' for Gemini on April 24, letting users interact with smart home devices across multi-turn exchanges without repeatedly triggering a wake command.

Apr 26

Home & Consumer · 3 min read

Google Gemini for Home Now Stays Listening — You Do Not Need to Say Hey Google Again

Google updated Gemini for Home to keep the microphone active after each response, enabling natural follow-up questions without repeating the wake word.

Apr 24

Creative & Media · 4 min read

Avid Embeds Google Gemini Into Professional Video Editing — Agentic AI Comes to Media Production

Avid and Google Cloud are embedding Gemini models and Vertex AI into Media Composer, bringing autonomous metadata logging and agentic editing workflows to professional post-production for the first time.

Apr 16

Work & Labor · 2 min read

Google Gemini Now Generates Full Slide Presentations from a Single Prompt

Google upgraded Gemini with the ability to generate complete slide presentations from a text prompt or uploaded document through its Canvas platform.

Apr 13