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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that over 100,000 users have adopted Alexa+, the company’s new voice assistant, during its quarterly earnings call

Amazon is set to unveil new Alexa hardware devices in fall 2025, featuring advanced AI capabilities and enhanced smart home integration.

Amazon’s Alexa+ AI assistant has hit 100,000 users in the US, but its CEO has warned that the technology is still in its early stages.

Amazon has released a new generative AI reasoning model called Nova Sonic, significantly upgrading Alexa’s capabilities and user experience

The retail giants, Amazon and Walmart, are leveraging AI and expanding into new markets like freight and used car sales to maintain their competitive edge in an evolving landscape.

Amazon is discontinuing a feature that allowed some Echo users to prevent their voice recordings from being sent to the company’s cloud storage.

Amazon Echo users will soon lose the ability to prevent their voice recordings from being sent to the company’s cloud storage system.

A shift in focus towards artificial intelligence has led to a decline in hardware innovation and job opportunities in Seattle’s tech industry, with engineers expressing concern about the future.

Amazon is eliminating a key privacy option for Alexa users, requiring all voice recordings to be sent to the company’s servers. This change, tied to the launch of Alexa+, has raised concerns about user privacy.

Amazon is discontinuing local voice processing for Echo devices, shifting all voice data to its cloud. This impacts user privacy settings and raises concerns about data storage and control.