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A Year With Alexa Plus: This AI Is Worth It for Me, but Might Not Be for You

Amazon's huge voice assistant upgrade is conversational, connected and well-suited for Prime users. I enjoy it, but still ...
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Is Amazon Alexa down? Thousands report issues amid AWS outage

Amazon’s Alexa was one of the many tech services impacted by a major Amazon Web Services outage that started on Monday morning, Oct. 20. According to Downdetector, reports of an Alexa outage peaked ...

Alexa is the upgrade Amazon’s assistant desperately needed, but its app is still a mess

An AI overhaul makes Alexa+ a much better digital assistant and smart home control centerI tried Alexa+ on my ...

Amazon 'dropped the ball' with Alexa, former employee says

Mihail Eric claims Amazon missed its chance to become a conversational AI leader with Alexa due to technical and bureaucratic issues in the company.

With new Alexa website, Amazon’s consumer AI vision finally comes together — and it’s actually useful

Amazon has quietly started rolling out Alexa.com, bringing its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant to the desktop browser for the ...
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What to expect from Amazon’s big fall hardware event on Tuesday

Amazon is already hinting at new Echos and a new color Kindle. Amazon is already hinting at new Echos and a new color Kindle. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined ...