Amazon Web Services is offering a product to help retailers launch their own AI shopping features. The tool is built on Alexa ...

More than four months ago in New York City, Amazon executive Panos Panay said a new version of the Alexa virtual assistant would soon launch on the web at Alexa.com to “help you do the long-form work ...

Amazon started the Alexa Fund in 2015 to back early-stage voice startups. With the advent of large language models and Amazon launching Gen AI-powered Alexa+, along with a family of multimodal AI ...

A flyer for the Ballard Makers Market & Bar Hop, spotted on a Seattle street pole — an example of the real-world data I’ve been feeding into Amazon’s Alexa+ assistant. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) ...

Amazon’s voice assistant is hanging on by a thread. And that thread is generative AI—or, in Amazon’s case, Alexa+. Amazon hasn’t had a problem getting people to buy cheap, Alexa-powered gadgets.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Debuted in 2014, Alexa has become one of the most popular voice assistants available today. Millions of people use Alexa every day, but most ...

Today in at an event in New York, Amazon announced new Kindle e-readers, Fire TV televisions and streaming sticks, Echo speakers, Ring and Blink cameras and lots of Alexa and AI services. We've ...