Its smart-speaker Alexa significantly ramped up its ... witnessed in the last 12-18 months could well reflect Amazon’s own commercial evolution into the ‘everything store’.

CNET reported a few weeks ago that Amazon is preparing to remove a key privacy setting in its Alexa smart home devices. Today, it goes into effect. Here's what it means.

According to images seen by The Verge, Amazon is testing changing the name of its Echo smart speakers and smart displays to Alexa. We saw two separate instances of Amazon.com landing pages ...

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In the decade-plus since Amazon introduced its line of Echo smart speakers, we've been using "Alexa" to address them. It's the default wake word, and soon, as Alexa+, will be the name that marks ...

Amazon started the Alexa Fund in 2015 to back early-stage voice startups. With the advent of large language models and Amazon launching Gen AI-powered Alexa+, along with a family of multimodal AI ...

As with Apple, Amazon’s upcoming reboot of Alexa is a case of playing catch-up to competitors. Both companies’ offerings were part of an initial wave of early digital assistants that seemed ...

Alexa users also have a setting called “Don’t save recordings”, which, if enabled, deletes cloud recordings once they’re processed. In the second change, if the “Don’t save recordings” setting is ...