Alexa+ is now available in the U.K., with careful localization. Amazon’s Panos Panay explains why the generative AI upgrade ...

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 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 ...

Amazon has automatically started upgrading its Amazon Prime members to the Alexa Plus assistant. In the latest update, users of the Echo devices don’t need to opt in to upgrade their regular Alexa ...

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 ...

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 ...

The convenience of having a voice-prompted assistant can't be understated. Whether you have and iPhone and engage with Siri or an Android equipped with Google Assistant that help with anything from ...

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, ...

A version of Alexa revamped with new generative AI tech could ‘learn’ from your routines and fulfill more advanced requests, according to Reuters. A version of Alexa revamped with new generative AI ...