An AI overhaul makes Alexa+ a much better digital assistant and smart home control center I tried Alexa+ on my first-generation Amazon Echo Show 15, which received a major software refresh in addition ...

Alexa Plus, which is Amazon’s next-generation AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the US, with a free-text-based chat version for non-Prime subscribers to try. It’s free if you’re a Prime ...

Amazon turned its Alexa voice assistant loose on the world in 2014, but it has never made a dime for the company. Were it not a pet project of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Alexa might have been canned ...

Digital assistants are quickly taking the world by storm: It seems like every time you turn around, there’s a new voice-activated device just waiting to bring more convenience to everyday life.

Amazon's Alexa team is hard at work on an updated "AI brain" for the voice-activated smart assistant, according to a new report. But thanks to technical hiccups, a rapidly shifting AI market, and a ...