Amazon has launched Alexa Podcasts, a new feature within Alexa+ that generates custom audio podcast episodes on demand using AI, marking a significant step toward positioning the voice assistant as a personalised AI content platform rather than a simple query-and-response tool. Users can request an episode on any topic, after which Alexa+ autonomously researches the […]
Alexa Plus, Amazon’s upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on “virtually any topic,” according to an announcement on Monday. With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, and the AI assistant will offer an overview of what its AI hosts plan to talk about, allowing you to steer the conversation […]
Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform.
Amazon has introduced Alexa for Shopping, combining its Rufus shopping chatbot with Alexa+ across its app, website, and Echo Show devices. The assistant can answer product questions, compare items, track prices, and support shopping reminders. It can also handle scheduled shopping actions and eligible automated purchases. The company said Alexa for Shopping combines Rufus’ product […]
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Amazon has launched Alexa for Shopping, a personalised AI shopping assistant powered by Alexa+ that replaces its previous generative AI tool Rufus. Now available to US customers across mobile, desktop, and Echo Show displays, the assistant uses purchase history and browsing habits to deliver tailored product recommendations, comparison tools, price tracking, and automated recurring orders. […]
Alexa for Shopping is a new personalized AI shopping assistant in the Amazon search bar that replaces its Rufus assistant.
Insider Brief Amazon is rolling out a new AI-powered shopping assistant called Alexa for Shopping that combines conversational AI, personalized recommendations and automation tools across the company’s shopping app, website and Echo devices. According to Amazon, the system merges Amazon’s Alexa+ assistant with Rufus, the company’s AI shopping tool, which Amazon said helped more than […]
Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company’s shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you’ll be talking to Alexa for Shopping, the company’s new shopping assistant, powered by Alexa Plus. So, while a search for “toilet paper” will still return the expected […]
Amazon’s head of devices and services, Panos Panay, says that the company is “not necessarily” planning to release a smartphone, but has stopped short of denying it outright. It was previously reported that Amazon is developing an Alexa-enabled AI phone codenamed “Transformer,” more than 10 years after it scrapped its ill-fated Fire Phone. Speaking to […]
Amazon employees are automating unnecessary tasks just to climb internal AI leaderboards.
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