By Matt Jancer
Publication Date: 2025-11-28 01:36:00
Not a day goes by that I don’t get in a verbal spat with the bodiless, soulless, guileless Google Assistant that lives inside the Google Nest Hub that underpins my smart home. It’s obstinate, it’s regularly dimwitted, and for the past two months, it’s thought the date was December 4.
I frequently want to shout rude things at it and flick it off, but as it doesn’t have a camera—one of its good qualities—it would be largely useless. So I’ve semi-patiently waited for it to go obsolete and be replaced by Gemini, Google’s far smarter, college-educated generative AI.
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Recently, a page has popped up on the Android Auto section of Google’s support site that says “Google Assistant is still available for use until March 2026.”
Google has long telegraphed its intention to expand Gemini into spaces currently occupied by its older, less advanced Google Assistant, but this update doesn’t seem to refer to Gemini displacing Google Assistant…
