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Google's Gemini-powered voice assistant for Google Home, replacing Assistant to control and converse with smart home devices.
The new Model Context Protocol endpoint reaches every device and the whole event history in Google Home, but only for US subscribers on the paid Premium Advanced tier, and Google is shipping it as early access.
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Google's Home MCP connects outside coding agents to a user's home devices, with Claude and Codex among the five named clients. Eligibility starts and ends with US subscribers on the Premium Advanced tier.
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The Google Home changelog itemises fifteen fixes, including widgets that kept polling cameras while the phone sat locked. In the same release, Google opened device state and event history to outside AI agents.
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Google shipped fifteen separate fixes to the Home app and Gemini for Home on September 16, ten of them in the app itself. The most consequential pauses the widget's polling while the phone screen is locked, where no user will ever see it happen.
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The Verge's reviewer has spent years living with home robots, and ahead of IFA's humanoid catwalk she argues the coordinating brain matters more than the body, after none of the humanoids at CES could open her laundry detergent.
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The August 20 changelog is speech recognition, unit consistency and a 360p camera bug. That is a more honest readout of where Gemini for Home stands than any capability announcement.
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A $20-a-month recognition feature for Nest cameras collapsed three cats into one identity in two weeks of hands-on testing, which breaks everything built on the name.
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