Forget Hey Google Gemini may soon wake up when you bring phone to your face

Google has seemingly grown tired of the need to summon AI assistants like Gemini using a hotword or button press and is reportedly working on a new way to summon the chatbot.

​As per a report by Android Headlines, citing a new patent, Google is working on a technology that will automatically launch the AI assistant when the phone senses it is close to the user’s face.

​Reportedly, the technology takes advantage of the existing hardware on a smartphone, i.e., the capacitive sensor grid used by the touchscreen. The sensors are responsible for…