Andy Jassy kept prodding Alexa with sports questions. It was summer 2023, and Amazon.com Inc.’s chief executive officer wanted to see if a prototype of the voice assistant, upgraded with artificial ...

As the company’s priorities change, “these shifts are leading us to discontinue some initiatives, which is resulting in role eliminations,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “We’re grateful to these ...

Amazon is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to ...

Amazon's strategy of setting low prices for Echo speakers and other smart devices, hoping to generate income elsewhere within the tech giant, hasn't paid off. Despite Alexa being in millions of ...

Alexa just got a little more… mouthy. Amazon announced this week that its revamped AI assistant Alexa+ is getting a brand-new personality — and this one isn’t exactly sugar and spice. The company is ...

Amazon is planning to remove a privacy setting on its Echo devices later this month that will allow virtually all voice requests to go to the company's cloud. The company's cloud-based voice service ...

Alexa hasn’t worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust ecosystem of apps, or Alexa Skills, that would make the voice assistant an ...

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May 22 (Reuters) - Amazon.com <AMZN.O> will introduce a more conversational artificial intelligence-powered version of its Alexa voice assistant later this year and plans to charge a monthly ...

Amazon is not giving up on making its Alexa a virtual shopping assistant. On Wednesday, the company announced that Alexa+, its revamped Alexa experience, will be able to help consumers grocery shop ...