Whether you find it fascinating or horrifying, the latest advance in generative AI means we need to learn to read images in a ...

Amazon is turning off the ability to process voice requests locally. It's a seemingly major privacy pivot and one that some Alexa users might not appreciate. However, this change affects exactly ...

Alexa will send all audio recordings to the cloud for processing from March 28 onwards, and disabling this will disable some features. Amazon recently disabled two important privacy features on ...

Regardless of whether the "Don’t Save Recordings" feature is on or off, all Alexa requests will process to the cloud, Amazon says. "The Alexa experience is designed to protect our customers ...

It’s Amazon’s latest effort to generate a profit from Alexa, which lost $25 billion in revenue between 2007-2021 according to The Wall Street Journal last year. While Alexa+ will be added to ...

Amazon is in the process of overhauling Alexa, introducing a new Alexa+ AI service that will be available free of charge for Prime users (or $20 per month on its own). But as the company plans to ...

That's the date when supported devices will lose the option to store and process Alexa requests locally, ensuring that all voice recordings are sent to the cloud. An email that Amazon sent to ...

This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. In an email sent ...

Amazon is removing Alexa’s on-device processing capabilities in preparation for its generative AI upgrade. The company recently alerted users of this change in an email stating that the ‘Do ...

In an email sent last Friday to a number of customers, Amazon revealed that as of March 28, it will remove an opt-in setting that prevented audio of your Alexa requests from being shared with the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kiri Masters covers trends in retail media and marketplaces. As Amazon prepares to roll out Alexa+, brands face an urgent need ...

Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Suno wasn’t supposed to be an important part of Amazon’s Alexa Plus presentation. The AI song generation platform was a minor demonstration of how ...