The internet giant owns 14% of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, according to legal filings obtained by The New York Times.

Anthropic, a San Francisco startup often cast as an independent player in the AI race, has deeper ties to Google than previously known. Court documents

Google owns 14% of AI startup Anthropic, according to court filings found by The New York Times. Google's investment in Anthropic shows its continued involvement in AI startups. Some AI startups, like Anthropic and DeepSeek AI,

Google initially launched Google Assistant in 2016. Now, though, Gemini has become the catch-all branding for many of Google’s AI and assistant-like efforts, so it’s not too surprising that the company is officially retiring Google Assistant. Update, March 14th: Added details from 9to5Google.

Google's Gemini assistant will officially replace the company's classic Google Assistant on most phones later this year. Google announced the change in a blog post Friday, and revealed that the change will also encompass devices like tablets, headphones and watches that use the Google Assistant.

This is the first official declaration from Google that the Google Assistant is on its way out, but it’s not like we weren’t expecting it. Gemini is already the default experience on most mainstream Android devices,