Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests

The Verge / 5/6/2026

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Google updated “Gemini for Home” to Gemini 3.1, enabling Google Home users to ask for more complex, multi-step smart-home tasks in a single command.
The update improves the assistant’s ability to interpret requests and take actions, including better support for recurring and all-day events.
Users can “move around” upcoming events, suggesting more flexible scheduling and event management within Gemini-powered routines.
The article notes this follows earlier Gemini for Home improvements aimed at understanding natural language and correctly identifying devices, amid recent reports of bugs such as the assistant producing fictional wildlife and people.

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home assistant's ability to interpret and act on requests. The upgrade will also make Gemini for Home better at handling recurring and all-day events and allow users to "move around" upcoming events.

Last month, Google also updated Gemini for Home with improvements for understanding natural language and identifying devices correctly. The upgrades follow reports of bugs in Google's new smart home assistant, like confusing differe …

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