Sure, Apple and Google's smart speakers have beautiful aesthetics compared to the Amazon Echo Dot. But walk into any store selling smart home gear and check the box. "Works with Alexa" appears on ...

In fact, I would argue that its failure to live up to expectations has hurt the smart home in multiple ways, leading to users ...

Anyone can now try Alexa+, Amazon’s generative AI assistant, through a free early access program at Alexa.com. The website ...

Amazon has launched a new website for Alexa Plus. This website enables Alexa Plus early access customers to access the AI ...

Amazon is pushing Alexa+ beyond the smart speaker, bringing its upgraded AI assistant to the web, a redesigned mobile app, ...

Alexa+ on the web is accessible via https://www.alexa.com/. It is currently limited to customers with Early Access to Alexa+.

Amazon employees beta-testing Alexa+ vented frustrations on an internal Slack, highlight the continuing headaches behind ...

Echo Show devices are getting a new Shopping Essentials experience that makes it easier to buy products and track orders in one place. Echo Show devices are getting a new Shopping Essentials ...

Amazon has long had to deal with the reality that owners of its Echo smart speakers weren’t using its voice-controlled assistant, Alexa, to buy things, as it had hoped. The tech giant hasn’t given up ...

There is certainly some irony in one of the questions most commonly posed to Alexa this year: “What does AI mean?” Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant has become a regular feature in 21st ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Inside our homes, though, Amazon Alexa has become the most popular virtual assistant in the US and around the world, as a widely adopted virtual ...

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