Now, Google says it's ready to stop using Gemini as a selling point and kick off a new era for digital assistants on all of Android. The week in mobile was a bit hectic, starting with a major Chromecast outage before ending on the news that Google Assistant is dying.

Google is officially retiring its iconic digital assistant this year. The company will replace it, of course, with Gemini, its generative AI bot.

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.