The feature has also only applied to Alexa voice requests. Echo devices have previously processed sounds to the cloud if the selected "wake word," typically the saying "Alexa," alerts the device ...

After more than a year out of sight, Alexa+–the new Alexa with its AI-powered revamp– took center stage at a crowded coming-out party in New York City on Wednesday, and I got a first-hand look ...

Amazon is hosting an Alexa-focused press event in NYC on Wednesday. Considering the company hasn’t held a major device presser in nearly two years — the last one was in September 2023 — we ...

Alexa’s Elixir includes the 42-foot-high Long Leif, the tallest troll Dambo has ever made, and a paunchy bunny fashioned from thousands of plastic bins upcycled from a Minnesota tool manufacturer.

The new AI-enhanced Alexa (which will offer new phone and web apps) will have a variety of tricks up its sleeve, including “agentic” abilities (autonomous AI is the new hotness in artificial ...

Alexa Harmon-Thomas has grown up in the long shadow cast by her famous father, Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Derrick Thomas, but 14 years after his death she is paving her own path to ...