The e-commerce and streaming giant used to have the most widely used voice-activated AI before the ChatGPT revolution, but recent company comments suggest it may be a victim of its early success. Now ...

Amazon might soon reveal the next generation of Alexa, one equipped with AI skills. At a press event scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 26, the company reportedly will introduce the long-delayed and ...

Amazon is expected to unveil its new and improved AI-powered Alexa later this month, but it may not reach the public immediately after the event. Internal sources reveal that Amazon seems to have ...

After more than a year of waiting, Amazon finally unveiled on Wednesday in New York City its next-generation Alexa voice assistant. It centers around large language models (LLMs) like the ones that ...

Amazon Echo speaker configured for the Alexa voice assistant. Image © Tim Sandle. Amazon Echo speaker configured for the Alexa voice assistant. Image © Tim Sandle ...

It’s been 10 years since Amazon first introduced its friendly voice assistant Alexa, following in the footsteps of Apple’s Siri (2011) and followed itself by Google Assistant (2016). A lot has changed ...

With a fresh infusion of personality, smarts and expertise, a new Alexa − officially, Alexa+ − is about to transform Amazon’s smart home control center from simple command-taker to a perky and ...

Alexa, a voice-based AI “digital assistant” that lives inside the retailer’s line of Echo home speakers, was launched in 2014 after Amazon bought a Polish speech synthesizer outfit called Ivona. Back ...