Hey Alexa—Amazon may be teaming up with OpenAI. Here’s why that matters

Amazon had been using a mix of its own models and those from OpenAI rival Anthropic to power Alexa+. Will a pivot to OpenAI's ...
AOL

How Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to more than a dozen employees who worked on it

With that phrase, David Limp, at the time Amazon’s head of devices and services, showed off a new generative AI-powered version of the company’s signature Alexa voice assistant in September 2023. At a ...
TechHive

Amazon’s new Alexa might have Claude AI under the hood

Yes, the new, “remarkable,” and for-pay version of Alexa is apparently still coming, but when it finally does arrive, much of its generative-AI tech may wind up coming from somewhere other than Amazon ...
Ars Technica

Amazon’s generative-AI-powered Alexa is as big a privacy red flag as old Alexa

Amazon is trying to make Alexa simpler and more intuitive for users through the use of a new large language model (LLM). During its annual hardware event Wednesday, Amazon demoed the ...