Living with Google Home's new Gemini upgrade feels like talking to a completely different assistant.

Starting to build a smart home and wondering which home hub you should pick? With Amazon Echo speakers, Fire TV sticks, Nest Hub displays, and Pixel phones all in the mix, the right choice often comes down to what you already own and which apps you use every day.

On the back of a ton of Gemini announcements at I/O 2026, Google is today announcing “Gemini built in” as a new solution that brings AI features to third-party devices including speakers, cameras, and more.

A number of Reddit users say that Google’s smart home ecosystem is falling apart — another casualty of what’s been dubbed "enshittification." A July 21 Reddit thread has drawn hundreds of comments from users venting about how unreliable Google Home ...

While the Google Home Speaker was nowhere to be seen at I/O, the company did announce it’s getting back into the third-party smart speaker game. A new Speaker Reference Design will let manufacturers build Gemini-powered smart speakers,

Google’s Nest line of products (an evolution from the previous Google Home brand after Google purchased Nest) incorporates a variety of smart devices, all designed to work under the Home app and integrate easily with each other. If you’re a fan of ...

The Nest app has a long history, but it’s slowly on its way out. As the next major product moves fully to the Google Home app, the Nest app is nearly done for good. This issue of 9to5Google Weekender is a part of 9to5Google’s newsletter that highlights ...

Google also announced its smart home APIs are now available to all developers. Google also announced its smart home APIs are now available to all developers. One of the key changes Matter is bringing to the smart home is a standardized way to enable local ...

It's been a slow erosion, but recent cracks in Google's smart home foundation paint a very grim picture of the future. Reading time 3 minutes When I started using a Google smart speaker six years ago, I was all in. Voice assistants have never been perfect ...