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Google just fired its old Assistant... NASA trained an AI to stare straight into the Sun. And Sam Altman? He’s warning of an AI crash while raising at a $500B valuation??
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Nearly 10 years after Google Assistant first landed in smart speakers, Google is officially phasing it out. In its place: Gemini for Home, a next-gen AI assistant that’s smarter, more conversational, and built for complex household tasks.
🔍 What’s New with Gemini for Home?
Smarter Media Search → finds exactly what you mean across streaming services
Deeper Smart Home Control → it reasons through commands naturally
Family Coordination → use plain language to manage routines
Answers for Anything → go beyond normal trivia
Think of it as conversational mode. Say “Hey Google, let’s chat” → then drop the “Hey Google” and just talk.
It pulls from search, streaming platforms, and your devices all at once. No more “Did you mean this?” dead-ends.
And yes, over time Gemini will replace Google Assistant on Nest speakers and smart displays. Rollout starts with early access in October, with both free and paid tiers.
→ Gemini for Home is less a “smart speaker” gimmick, more a household AI co-pilot.
Why It Matters: This new shift just puts Alexa and Siri in a tough spot. If Gemini becomes the household “default brain,” the whole category just shifted overnight. Does Amazon have an Anthropic-level partnership coming?
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💸 Meta just signed a $10B, 6-year deal to run its AI on Google Cloud, according to The Information. Meta stock dipped 1.15% to $739.10; Google rose 0.2% to $199.75.
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AI CHART
NASA and IBM just dropped Surya, a solar-focused foundation model trained on 9 years of Sun data, and it’s already outperforming human forecasts.
→ It’s designed to decode the Sun’s surface and forecast space weather events with accuracy that beats existing models by 16%.
Here’s how it works:
It ingested millions of images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
It learned to track everything from emerging sunspots to solar wind speeds
It processed multiple wavelengths of light at once, spotting tiny surface changes humans often miss
Then it predicts when a solar eruption might blast toward Earth
NASA open-sourced the whole model on HuggingFace → any researcher, student, or private company can use this for their own space weather projects.
Basically there are already tools that monitor the Sun. But none of them are as fast or as accurate as Surya at recognizing the earliest signs of danger.
And with climate change already straining Earth’s systems, knowing when our nearest star plans to throw a tantrum might be the most important forecast of all.
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