Android Auto gets AI summaries and suggestions

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Android Auto is another feature getting spruced up. Its new AI update allows it to summarize long messages or conversations so you can stay focused on driving while staying in touch. It can also smartly recommend replies and actions based on the situation, such as offering to share your ETA when someone asks about your arrival time.

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Mercedes-Benz changes course on its EV strategy and reassures investors

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Mercedes-Benz is adjusting its electrification strategy due to market difficulties. The German luxury brand is pushing back its aim to go all-electric by 2030, Reuters says. The company also assures investors that it will continue making vehicles with combustion engines well into the next decade.

In 2021, Mercedes—along with other automakers—was hopeful about the future of EVs. The company committed €40 billion, about CA$58 billion, to a strategy that would phase out the combustion engine and sell only EVs by the end of the decade. The plan was realistic for a company that was launching the EQ lineup, which was only EVs. It also aligned with the E.U.'s ban on new gas and diesel vehicles sales by 2035.

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