The worldwide AI craze set its sights on voice assistants in 2025. This year, it arrived at both third-party and primary voice assistants, including Google (Google Assistant is now becoming Gemini for ...

It sounds like I’m talking to a teenage girl, wayyyy too peppy for me at 6 o’clock in the morning. Strongly debating going to ...

Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+ has improved smart home controls and conversation abilities, but the Alexa app is still buggy.

Amazon is expanding its AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ with new capabilities. The company announced on Thursday that ...

Amazon’s new AI-enabled assistant Alexa+ is launching Monday but not all of the features the company showcased at a splashy event last month are ready, and not every Alexa owner will get access to ...

As Amazon launches AI-driven “agentic commerce,” payment leaders Visa and Mastercard prepare for a future where bots handle ...

Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI), ...

Apple isn’t the only company struggling in its efforts to integrate AI into its various products and services. Amazon’s launch of Alexa+, for example, currently falls somewhat short of what the ...

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, ...

Amazon has unveiled a long-awaited Alexa update, finally integrating cutting edge generative AI into its pioneering voice bot. On stage, the company’s executives showed Alexa hailing a cab, ...

Amazon employees beta-testing Alexa+ vented frustrations on an internal Slack, highlight the continuing headaches behind ...

Prasad's exit comes after Amazon struggled to show its internal AI efforts could match those of rivals—and just as reports surface that Amazon is discussing a big investment into OpenAI ...