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A peek behind Amazon's new Alexa

Amazon's new Alexa is rolling out, and Fortune Tech Correspondent Jason Del Rey put the tech to the test to see what it can ...

Fears of Amazon price hike and MORE ads as company boss teases worrying change for shoppers

AMAZON has sparked concern that more ads could pop up on Alexa devices as it introduces new AI features to the popular voice ...

Amazon’s Alexa Fund Invests in ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Launches Showrunner: A Tool for User-Directed TV Shows

Amazon has invested in Fable, a start-up whose 'Netflix of AI' Showunner gen-AI tool lets users create scenes or entire ...

24 hours with Alexa Plus: we cooked, we chatted, and it kinda lied to me

Alexa Plus knows more, can do more, and is easier to interact with because it understands more. I can ramble, pause, sigh, ...

Amazon Alexa Fund backs Fable — the ‘Netflix of AI’ — where users create TV shows with prompts

The AI-generated Fable TV show "Exit Valley" is an animated satire set in Sim Francisco, a simulated version of Silicon ...

Amazon yanks Sengled’s Alexa skill after a series of service outages

A number of “prolonged” Sengled outages prompted Amazon’s move, which renders many of Sengled’s smart bulbs inoperable via ...
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Amazon’s generative-AI-powered Alexa is as big a privacy red flag as ...

Amazon is trying to make Alexa simpler and more intuitive for users through the use of a new large language model (LLM). During its annual hardware event Wednesday, Amazon demoed the ...
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Amazon Alexa on a phone: What you will and won't get - CNET

Alexa, which initially appeared on the Amazon Echo speaker, made it possible for families and roommates to ask for music, headlines and Amazon services in a shared space like the living room or ...
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How Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue

The way Irish Alexa emphasized “r’s” and softened “t’s” stuck out, they said, and Amazon got the accent as a whole right. “It sounds authentic to me,” Ms. Tallon said.

New Alexa app helps Ontario County residents recycle smarter

We understand that our residents want to do the right thing and sometimes can feel overwhelmed when trying to decide if something can be recycled ..." ...