Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway Come March 28, those who opted to have their voice ...

With the rise of generative AI in 2022, the first-wave assistants began to look outdated and inadequate. Like Apple, Amazon ...

Amazon will end a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from ...

Alexa at 10: Amazon’s assistant is a winner and a failure ... A good start would be getting rid of the annoying ads and “By the way” interruptions.

An opt-in Alexa feature called "Do Not Send Voice Records" stops requests from being sent to the company. It will soon be ...

If you needed to get a bit more paranoid about the world, Amazon will soon have access to each and every world you tell Alexa ...

Essentially, everything said to your Amazon Echo from March 28 on will be sent to Amazon’s cloud, and having the setting to ...

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While Amazon said Echo users will still have the option to not save their voice commands, certain features of Alexa+ might ...

Amazon is removing the ability to process Alexa requests locally on your Echo smart speaker, but it only affects a handful of ...

Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a ...

Amazon (AMZN) is changing how it approaches Alexa by moving beyond cheap smart speakers to introduce premium (and pricier) AI-powered devices.