This Echo is more than a standard speaker and it’s presented as “a smart home gateway and entertainment centerpiece” in its ...

Christina is a freelance editor and contributor with Newsweek’s small business team. With a passion for small business optimization and strategy, Christina has successfully launched her own ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

AI-powered personal assistants have become essential in our fast-paced lives, helping us manage tasks, control smart devices, ...

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 ...