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688 How AI broke the smart home in 2025 

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 12/23/2025 08:30 EDT

How AI broke the smart home in 2025 

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 […]

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