The effort carries significant weight at Amazon, which has plowed billions of dollars into Alexa since its launch in 2014 in the hope of putting the service into a range of devices and ultimately ...

Originally, a beta version of the updated bot was planned to arrive ... into every aspect of digital life, Amazon knows that it's lagging behind – Alexa has effectively been overtaken by its ...

But in the decade since Alexa arrived in our living rooms, Amazon has struggled to monetize its hardware division, even as its bet on cheap hardware helped make Alexa the dominant voice assistant.

Onstage, Amazon’s devices and services chief Panos Panay called it a “complete re-architecture” of the AI assistant. “While the vision of Alexa has been ambitious and remains incredibly ...

Amazon introduced a new AI-charged version of Alexa a few weeks ago, and as promised, has finally started rolling out early access to it. Alexa+, as the company likes to call it, is currently ...

Ahead of Amazon's big AI upgrade to the Alexa voice assistant, Alexa Plus, the company has announced a worrying change to its privacy policy: Starting on March 28, owners of Echo smart speakers ...

It’s a good time to revisit the terms of your relationship with Alexa. If you own one of Amazon’s voice assistant gadgets, everything you say to Alexa is beamed to Amazon’s cloud and saved ...

is a bid to give consumers more choice while generating new excitement for an Alexa franchise that has lost luster in recent years. Panay is pledging to reengineer Amazon’s hardware, from the ...

There are over 100 million Alexa devices in use right now ... This will build the new Amazon Skill app. Once the build has finished, and assuming there are no errors, a good practice is to ...