Google Assistant's new voice command sends money to your contacts

Google made a splash earlier this week with a new Assistant-powered shopping initiative seemingly aimed at chipping away at Amazon's dominance, and now it has a new target in its sights: Venmo. Starting today, you'll be able to use your iPhone or Android phone to send money to anyone in your contact list just by asking Google Assistant. Like the Google Express shopping service, you'll need to have Google Pay installed and set up, but once you go through the process--either through the app or by following Assistant's guided setup--you'll be able to send any amount of money just by saying, "OK Google, send Brad $100 for dinner." Google also says the service will be coming to Google Home and other Assistant-powered speakers in the coming months. But it still could be a while.