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Alexa+ is set to roll out in the United States over the next few weeks, starting with Echo Show models 8, 10, 15, and the new ...

Sesame has a mini white paper you can read on its website, describing the model and its dataset of around one million hours ...

In the fall, the company introduced technology called OpenAI o1, which was designed to reason through tasks involving math, ...

Amazon debuted a more sophisticated version of Alexa on Wednesday that’s more conversational and can handle tasks on your ...

Amazon unveils Alexa+ with generative AI integration Alexa+ can store preferences, make reservations, connect to Amazon ...

Amazon’s just revealed Alexa+, the new version of the Alexa assistant, but it won’t have all of its cool powers on every ...

The new voice assistant is also integrated with the Claude chatbot from Anthropic, an AI company facing a copyright lawsuit ...

Alexa+, Amazon’s revamped version of Alexa was unveiled Wednesday, bringing the popular voice assistant into the artificial ...

Amazon focused heavily on agentic AI features for Alexa+, including the ability to draft and send text messages and emails to ...

With Alexa+, Amazon is making a play for the consumer agent space. It has a shot at succeeding — if all goes according to ...

Ten years after Amazon debuted its virtual assistant, Alexa is finally being upgraded for the generative-AI age. Meet Alexa+.