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Hands-on with Alexa : fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0…

Alexa Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. How Smart Is It Now?
It took Amazon several years to overcome technical hurdles as it remade its voice assistant with new artificial intelligence technology.

Amazon says over 1M people now have access to Alexa , up from "hundreds of thousands" in May, and plans to "make it even more broadly available over the summer" (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684560/amazo

More than a million people now have Alexa Plus
Amazon’s generative AI-powered smart voice assistant launched in March and is slowly reaching more homes.

Amazon zieht Werbung bei Alexa Plus in Erwägung
Amazon-CEO Andy Jassy sieht in der verbesserten Sprachassistenz von Alexa Plus eine Gelegenheit, mehr Werbung unters Volk zu bringen – trotz Abo-Modell.
https://www.

Anyone know good smart speaker things like Amazon Alexa that doesn't phone home etc?
#smarthome #homeassistant #privacy

Es gibt übrigens tausende Menschen, mindestens in den #USA, die unter #Amazon leiden könnten, obwohl sie gar nichts mit Amazon zu tun haben.
Der virtuelle Sprachassistent Alexa wurde 2014 eingeführt.
Es dauerte anscheinend 2 Jahre, bis Eltern während der wieder aufkommenden Popularität des N…

A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa before rollout (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-plan

#Amazon will künftig personalisierte #Werbung in Gespräche mit dem KI-Assistenten #AlexaPlus integrieren.
#CEO

Amazon CEO wants to put ads in your Alexa+ conversations | TechCrunch
Amazon is spending a fortune on AI infrastructure and CEO Andy Jassy sees a new way to pay for it with Alexa+.