ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok, is entering the smartphone intelligent assistant market. Unlike competitors such as Google and Apple, the company does not plan to launch its own smartphone. Instead, ByteDance aims to integrate its artificial intelligence technology directly into devices from major manufacturers through strategic partnerships. This approach marks the debut of the Doubao Mobile Assistant, an AI-driven system designed to integrate deeply with Android and transform […]

Apple is preparing a significant change to the iPhone’s voice assistant options with iOS 26.2, but the feature will be limited to users in Japan. In the third beta of iOS 26.2, developers found new code indicating that Apple is working on allowing the Side Button—normally used to activate Siri—to instead trigger a third-party voice assistant. These references appear in Apple’s private Siri frameworks and mention actions such as “Press […]