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It’s 2025, and AI still can’t reliably control my smart home. I’m beginning to wonder if it ever will.</div><div style="display:none"><a href="https://sailthru.com"><img src="https://link.theverge.com/img/6927830d52f971372306c18epq2zr.4vi/ffe16f79.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><table class="nl-container" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;background-color:#fff"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row row-1" align="center"
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By <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/43207335.6318/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RlY2gvODQ1OTU4L2FpLXNtYXJ0LWhvbWUtYnJva2VuP3VlaWQ9YmM2MjA3MmM3OWFjN2JlOTkwNDIwZTMzMzVkMGM5NTImYnhpZD02OTI3ODMwZDUyZjk3MTM3MjMwNmMxOGU/6927830d52f971372306c18eD8f3bb28f" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Jennifer Pattison Tuohy</a></p></div></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div
style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.5;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:26px"><p style="margin:0"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/43207335.6318/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RlY2gvODQ1OTU4L2FpLXNtYXJ0LWhvbWUtYnJva2VuP3VlaWQ9YmM2MjA3MmM3OWFjN2JlOTkwNDIwZTMzMzVkMGM5NTImYnhpZD02OTI3ODMwZDUyZjk3MTM3MjMwNmMxOGU/6927830d52f971372306c18eE8f3bb28f" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener"><p>This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn’t do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon’s generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time I ask.
</p><p>It’s 2025, and AI still can’t reliably control my smart home. I’m beginning to wonder if it ever will.</p></a></p></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10"
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