Alexa was never supposed to have an app store. Instead, it had “skills,” which Amazon hoped developers would use to connect ...

Many of the Amazon Music Unlimited plans are also ad-free. Many third-party music services that offer paid, ad-free options, ...

Amazon is doing an about-face and ramping up its pitch for ads on Alexa after saying it wouldn't run ads on the smart speakers. Last year, Amazon quietly started testing audio ads in Amazon Music ...

Torti, Sara McKinley. "Enhancing the Amazon Alexa Conversation with Ads: PR/FAQ Exercise." Harvard Business School Supplement 824-149, February 2024.

You'll have to wait a bit longer for the AI-powered, "chattier" version of Alexa, as Amazon has reportedly put back the ...

Amazon is readying a powerful, smarter, and quicker “agentic” Alexa, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hinted. It would pack a capable ...

E-commerce giant Amazon.com has asked a U.S. judge to throw out a multibillion-dollar consumer lawsuit that claims the tech ...

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A flaw in Amazon's Alexa smart home devices could have allowed hackers access to personal information and conversation history, cyber-security researchers say. Attackers could install or remove ...

Or maybe he’s just good at hiding it. One year later, though, and neither Panay nor any other Amazon executive has yet revealed the new Alexa to the public. Fortune previously reported that the ...

Amazon has reportedly shifted the roll out of its more-advanced, AI-powered Alexa service to next year. It is claimed that development hitches have caused a delay in the chattier personal ...