The hiring plans come amid a race with competitors including Anthropic and Microsoft Corp. to woo corporate customers using ...

Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has acquired a middle-grade spy adventure series from SJ Wills in a three-book deal. The ...

All smart speakers nail the basics like timers, weather forecasts, music, and voice commands, but the differences show up once a real setup starts to form across multiple rooms. Amazon Alexa and ...

The new “Send to Alexa” feature lets you send Kindle Scribe notebooks to your Echo device with just a couple of taps. I took the new feature for a spin, and it does work. Alexa+ did a good job ...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy writes at The Verge: I’ve used Alexa to manage my shopping list for years. There are plenty of great list apps out there, but the convenience of adding items by voice anywhere ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon’s revamped AI-powered assistant is now available to everyone in the US, with new tiers that include a free ...

Amazon has made Alexa Plus available for everyone in the US. Unlimited access to the AI-enhanced assistant will cost $19.99 per month. Amazon Prime members get unlimited access for free, while ...

For years, Alexa mostly stayed in one place. It lived on kitchen counters, nightstands or living room shelves. That setup worked for music and timers, but it also limited when and how people could ...

Does Alexa suddenly sound a little different on your Amazon Echo smart speaker? It’s not your imagination: Amazon is rolling out an upgraded version of its virtual assistant called Alexa+ to members ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Though it was not the first, Alexa is probably one of the best-known smart home assistants today. In the early days of these devices, the ...

Amazon is making a serious push to be your personal AI assistant across every device you use. At CES 2026, the company announced Alexa.com, bringing its AI assistant directly to web browsers.