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The AI assistant wars are heating up as Amazon announces Alexa+, an upgraded assistant powered by generative AI, while an upgraded Siri remains unfinished. Amazon has unveiled Alexa+, an AI assistant ...

In the coming weeks and months, upgrades to Amazon’s Alexa will be in customers’ hands. Alexa+ is the next step for the smart home assistant and it’s exponentially improved – and it makes Apple’s Siri ...

A new study digging into how Amazon uses Alexa voice recordings from its customers has concluded that the company and third parties leverage the audio to deliver targeted ads directly on Echo smart ...

Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant are all getting better at understanding and answering questions, thanks in part to every tech giant using humans to help improve their AI. Given that ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Amazon.com is trying to take a bite out of Apple’s iPad sales by ...

Yes, your Amazon Echo and Google Home devices are listening to you, and it turns out that the smart speakers can record what you say and share those recordings with Amazon and Google employees. The ...

Amazon appears to have quietly acquired Yap Inc., a speech recognition start-up company, fueling speculation that the online giant is getting ready to produce a voice command service such as Apple’s ...

Apple’s Siri follows Amazon Alexa and Google Home in facing backlash for its data retention policies. Apple is suspending a program that lets contractors listen in on Siri voice recordings after ...

As competition between Amazon and Apple in the mobile devices market continues to grow, the online retailer has purchased a voice-to-text company called Yap. A new filing with the U.S. Securities and ...