Link: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/06/the-gemini-powered-google-home-speaker-arrives-on-june-25-for-100/

Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.

Why would anyone buy it? With all the recent upgrades Google assistant and Google home is largely useless now.

Oh yay, less cost to be spied on more.

You guys still use google ?

This thing (like Amazon's) says home speaker but I don't even have to look to know that it's really a home microphone that uploads your private behaviour to Google.

Here's what a home speaker looks like, an Atwater Kent tube radio from 1931:

It delivered sound in only one direction. You could listen to it, but it didn't try to listen to you.

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