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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-10 22:01:33

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)
theverge.com/news/684560/amazo

@galaxydinodragon@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-11 07:32:44

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

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-07 10:40:55

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)
wsj.com/tech/amazon-alexa-plan

@bird@birdbox.party
2025-03-16 01:00:48

Great, just what I needed. Apparently even Amazon now have a web crawler which collects data to do what they describe as "improve our services, such as enabling Alexa to more accurately answer questions for customers".
It also looks like they use crawled data for training LLM too. So now, any data you have on your website could be used to train the next LLM AI model too.
Wonder if it has anything to do with this #AlexaPlus thing?
Information on the Amazon website at #Amazon #LLM #noAI #Alexa