The initiative comes at a time when large technology firms are racing to integrate advanced AI into consumer devices, ...

Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia.

Amazon's Alexa team is hard at work on an updated "AI brain" for the voice-activated smart assistant, according to a new report. But thanks to technical hiccups, a rapidly shifting AI market, and a ...

Amazon's voice assistant Alex will be getting an infusion of Anthropic's Claude AI during its revamp next month, according to a report from Reuters that cited five unnamed sources. The news, if true, ...

Amazon is turning to AI startup Anthropic to power the online retailer’s revamped Alexa when it’s released in October — rather than using its own artificial intelligence, five people familiar with the ...

Google Home narrowly follows Alexa, gathering 22 data points, which comprise a variety of user information such as search ...

Amazon Expands Alexa+ AI Assistant to All US Users After Yearlong Rollout Your email has been sent Amazon is making its generative AI-powered Alexa+ assistant available to everyone in the U.S., nearly ...

AI assistants and chatbots continue to grow in usefulness. ChatGPT recently passed 200 million weekly users, for example. But some of the early intelligent assistants, like Amazon’s Alexa, have gotten ...

Amazon today announced the launch of Alexa+, a new version of Alexa that includes large language models, agentic capabilities, services, and devices at scale to redefine "the way we interact with ...

A hot potato: Amazon Echo users concerned about their privacy might have something else to worry about on March 28. That's the date when supported devices will lose the option to store and process ...

Amazon’s new Alexa.com portal brings the AI-powered Alexa+ assistant to the desktop browser. Amazon is quietly rolling out the last big pillar of its AI-powered Alexa+ vision: the Alexa.com website, ...

Panos Panay remembers the first time he walked into a room and asked Alexa to play a song. “And it actually played,” he says, hands on his knees, leaning into the audience of reporters and analysts at ...