Voice Assistant & Smart Speaker Watch

Track voice assistants and smart speakers for US households. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: feature launches, removals and subscription tier or price changes for Amazon Alexa and Alexa+, Google Assistant and Gemini on Nest, Apple Siri and HomePod, Samsung Bixby and Sonos voice; smart speaker and display price drops of 30 percent or more and discontinuations; voice recording, privacy, data retention and always-on setting changes with the exact opt-out steps; skill and action shutdowns; end-of-support dates for older devices; kids and family voice profile changes; drop-in, calling, intercom and emergency feature changes; outages over two hours; and FTC and state privacy actions with settlements. Prefer Amazon, Google, Apple, Samsung and Sonos announcements and help pages, the FTC and established tech reporting; ignore rumors and unverified user reports. Put the assistant or device first in the title and state what to change in settings. Use high severity for a subscription change affecting most users, a privacy default change, or a feature removal that breaks routines. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the date, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.