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 ...

The Alexa.com website appears to be live for some users. The browser-based home for Alexa Plus, the company’s revamped digital voice assistant, was first announced at the Alexa Plus launch event in ...

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

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 ...

When Amazon announced its new Alexa Plus AI service in February, we were there to check out the demonstrations and hear about the rollout plans. Just one problem with this conversational AI upgrade ...

When I tried the new Alexa Plus back in March, she seemed dumber than the old Alexa. But after a friend raved about her, I decided to give her another chance. Now I agree. Plus is a plus.

We attended Amazon's February announcement of a massive Alexa AI upgrade with great interest. The new service, called Alexa Plus, promised us conversational AI to set reservations, learn what we like, ...

Would you pay more for the ‘World’s best’ personal assistant, or get by with a free one that targets you with ads? Would you pay more for the ‘World’s best’ personal assistant, or get by with a free ...

Cameras pointed at your bins could remind you to take them out, and your doorbell could tell people to take off their shoes, Panos Panay tells David Phelan ...