Amazon’s Alexa assistant can do a lot. It can play music, answer questions, call a cab, and help manage your calendar. Starting Friday, it can also send out text messages for AT&T mobile customers.

Kindle Scribe owners can ask Alexa to turn documents into summaries, tasks, and reminders. Kindle Scribe owners can ask Alexa to turn documents into summaries, tasks, and reminders. I spent about a ...

In the new Super Bowl ad, Chris Hemsworth meets playful Alexa. The commercial starts with Hemsworth walking in to see Pataky casually chatting with Alexa+. He instantly assumes the AI has bad ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After introducing Alexa Plus (Alexa+) last February, Amazon is now ready to make the AI assistant available on the web to Early Access users.

Amazon doesn’t just want Alexa to know you. It wants her to remember things about you, like a close friend or family member would. That’s the driving philosophy behind the vision for Alexa’s future, ...

From writing code to testing the new Alexa+, Amazon engineers used generative AI throughout the build process. We talk to Amazon's Daniel Rausch about the next version of the voice assistant. How did ...

Google started out as a search engine, so nobody ever expected it to be directly competing with Amazon, an online retailer, in the smart home market.