Luxury cars aren’t known for having a low price tag — and this probably won’t change anytime soon. “It is unlikely you will find cars with a price drop in 2026,” said Chris Pyle, an auto expert with ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Inside our homes, though, Amazon Alexa has become the most popular virtual assistant in the US and around the world, as a widely adopted virtual ...

Imagine speaking to a virtual assistant that not only understands your words but also grasps the nuances of your tone, intent, and context, all in real time. Building such a sophisticated voice agent ...

We release Qwen3-Omni, the natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation models. It is designed to process diverse inputs including text, images, audio, and video, while delivering real-time ...

For years, Google Assistant has been one of the default ways to interact with Google products. The voice-based assistant let you make calls, set up timers and alarms, and even take on a ton of other ...

In iOS 26.2 beta 3, Apple is laying the groundwork for a future option that will let iPhone users in Japan choose a different default voice assistant. Right now, a press and hold gesture on the Side ...

Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs. In the past, ...

Apple’s long-delayed AI-powered Siri upgrade remains on track for a 2026 debut, CEO Tim Cook said Thursday. That offers some reassurance to users after multiple setbacks pushed the originally planned ...

At its Universe 2025 event, GitHub today announced Agent HQ, a new platform designed to let developers orchestrate and manage AI agents directly within GitHub and Visual Studio Code. The company ...

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with Ideogram v.3.0 GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent: They need a way to manage all of them. At its ...

Google has spent much of this year porting its Gemini chatbot to other platforms outside of Android. It arrived on Wear OS smartwatches this summer; it's coming to Android Auto this fall; but now it's ...