So what is new with Alexa+ and what's missing? What's new with Alexa+? By utilizing generative AI (the type we see from ...

Amazon has finally started the rollout of Alexa+ as an early preview, but it is missing a few advanced features that might take a while.

Led by a former OpenAI executive, Amazon’s AI lab focuses on the decisionmaking capabilities of next-generation software ...

A change in the way Amazon and Alexa processes your personal communication data could convince privacy-wary users to give up ...

Amazon is getting rid of a privacy setting that will allow all recordings to be sent to the Amazon cloud and there's nothing ...

The company's cloud-based voice service Alexa currently offers an opt-in feature called "Do Not Send Voice Recordings." It stops audio requests from being sent to the company. Starting March 28 ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Jennifer Tuohy of The Verge about changes to Amazon's smart speakers. Users will no longer be able to opt not to have their voice recordings sent to the cloud.

Amazon will soon disable a privacy-focused feature available on three of its newer Echoes that allows commands to those smart ...

Samsung SmartThings has partnered with Philips Hue to add 155 more products to the Works With SmartThings lineup and streamline the process of adding more.

This design is Amazon's commitment to privacy, illumin8 said. Alexa, the AI assistant built into Echo, always stores the voices spoken to it for data training, and it is known that the voice data ...

It is an advanced version of the Amazon Alexa assistant that acts more like a human. Similar to Google’s AI assistant, Alexa+ can search and summarize documents or emails, and look up ...

This upgraded “Alexa Plus” is expected to be announced later this year. According to reports, Amazon+ will be free for Prime Members but costs around $20 month for non-Prime members.