Amazon had been planning to roll out a new Alexa powered by generative AI in October 2024, but that obviously didn't happen. According to reports that came out back then, the company pushed back its ...

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If you ask Alexa if she's down, she might not answer. Because right now, Alexa is down for many. According to Downdetector, there were nearly 300 reports of issues with Amazon Alexa as of Monday ...

I used to work in Alexa and I just don't see it being converted to an LLM solution for responses at all. A core problem is that user expectation is that responses are quite reliable outside of general ...

When Amazon announced its new Alexa Plus AI service in February, we were there to check out the demonstrations and hear about the rollout plans. Just one problem with this conversational AI upgrade ...

On The Vergecast: making sense of Alexa’s first decade, and wondering what might become of its second. On The Vergecast: making sense of Alexa’s first decade, and wondering what might become of its ...

Amazon is hosting an Alexa-focused press event in NYC on Wednesday. Considering the company hasn’t held a major device presser in nearly two years — the last one was in September 2023 — we’re ...

Apple and Amazon are two of the biggest players in home voice assistants (hardware and software). Both have struggled for years to develop a (arguable) compelling voice product. Each is taking a very ...