2016/08/22 11:06am PDTAug 22, 2016

Update 1: 2016/08/22 11:13am PDT
Official comment from Senior VP of Android, Chrome, and Google Play Hiroshi Lockheimer. @RDR0b11 @AndroidPolice — Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) August 22, 2016

Google Assistant seems... fun. Taken from a prerelease version of Allo. (And yes, this is what will happen if you send Google Assistant a poo emoji in Allo.)

Official comment from Senior VP of Android, Chrome, and Google Play Hiroshi Lockheimer.

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— Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) August 22, 2016

Huge if true.

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