Amazon's Alexa team is hard at work on an updated "AI brain" for the voice-activated smart assistant, according to a new report. But thanks to technical hiccups, a rapidly shifting AI market, and a ...

Amazon is turning to AI startup Anthropic to power the online retailer’s revamped Alexa when it’s released in October — rather than using its own artificial intelligence, five people familiar with the ...

Amazon’s new Alexa.com portal brings the AI-powered Alexa+ assistant to the desktop browser. Amazon is quietly rolling out the last big pillar of its AI-powered Alexa+ vision: the Alexa.com website, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Prakhar Khanna covers the consumer tech beat for Forbes. Alexa is getting a generative AI makeover, and it could be the biggest, ...

Amazon today announced the launch of Alexa+, a new version of Alexa that includes large language models, agentic capabilities, services, and devices at scale to redefine "the way we interact with ...

Amazon has automatically started upgrading its Amazon Prime members to the Alexa Plus assistant. In the latest update, users of the Echo devices don’t need to opt in to upgrade their regular Alexa ...

At an event in New York on Wednesday, Amazon announced an upgraded Alexa experience — Alexa+ — powered by generative AI technologies. Onstage, Amazon’s devices and services chief Panos Panay called it ...

Amazon Alexa is perfect for hands-free assists in many scenarios, but alongside a cursory Google search, these features can handle lesser-known tasks.