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 ...

Amazon plans to unveil a revamped version of its Alexa virtual assistant in New York later this month — the second launch event after a series of delays since the artificial-intelligence-powered ...

Amazon is expanding its Alexa fellowship programs to a total of 18 universities to help develop Alexa’s voice recognition technology, according to Fortune. The 18 universities are divided between the ...

Artificial personal assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa allow users to speak into their phone, their computer or even a tiny black tower and play music, make purchases or check the weather. Alexa is ...

Smartphones are unlikely to disappear overnight, but their role may shift from being the primary interface to just one ...

Amazon is set to release a revamped version of its Alexa voice assistant this October that will be powered by AI models from Anthropic's Claude, rather than Amazon's in-house AI technology, reports ...

The recent announcement from Amazon that they would be reducing staff and budget for the Alexa department has deemed the voice assistant as “a colossal failure.” In its wake, there has been discussion ...

Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher. By Sopan Deb The question of whether to be polite ...

The document sheds light on how Amazon is rebooting Alexa, a once promising business unit that's struggled in recent years with layoffs and cost cuts.