When Amazon’s latest Echo speakers arrived in October, a feature the company spent time hyping during its fall devices event was missing. Alexa Home Theater arrived in late November, allowing owners ...

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Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic capabilities” and turn a profit from the popular devices.

Privacy is the big thing that gives people the heebie-jeebies when it comes to digital assistants like Alexa. But at Amazon’s devices and services event today, the ...

Believe it or not, the first smart assistant to make its way into a speaker was Alexa. Unlike Google Assistant or Apple’s Siri, Amazon Alexa actually started on a speaker instead of on your phone. Of ...

Amazon has always allowed Echo device users to delete their voice recordings from the Alexa app, but now it's possible to do so just by asking out loud. Amazon recently launched a new feature for Echo ...

After lots (and lots) of boring rambling about generative AI from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy at Wednesday's event, Panay took the mic to start sharing the actual news. Alexa+ is the name of the company's ...

Perhaps the biggest emphasis of Amazon Alexa Live is the ways in which developers will be able to implement new and existing Alexa tools to make smart products more intuitive and customizable. One ...