Apple is gearing up to give its digital assistant, Siri, an artificial intelligence-powered upgrade, potentially posing a challenge to Amazon’s dominant Alexa. The Cupertino-based tech giant is working on a new system that will allow users to control individual app functions using voice commands, marking...
This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, OpenAI struck a news-sharing deal with News Corp and faced accusations from actress Scarlett Johansson over an allegedly replicated voice. Nvidia reported a staggering 262% revenue surge driven by the AI boom. Meanwhile, Amazon is preparing to launch...
Someday — and it may be soon — conversations with Amazon’s automated voice assistant Alexa may cost money. Amazon has been clear about its intentions to charge a subscription for a tiered Alexa service since last September. But improvements to voice technology driven by artificial intelligence (AI) may force the issue....
Amazon will stop paying developers to create applications — called Skills — for its voice assistant Alexa. This will end an offering that has been available to developers since 2017 and aimed to build an app store for Alexa, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (April 10). Amazon...
May 22, 2024
Someday — and it may be soon — conversations with Amazon’s automated voice assistant Alexa may cost money. Amazon has been clear about its intentions to charge a subscription for a tiered Alexa service since last September. But improvements to voice technology driven by artificial intelligence (AI) may force the issue. As an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to PYMNTS Wednesday (May 22), that […]
November 24, 2023
Amazon and Walmart are revving up their engines with initiatives set to hit consumers by the year’s end or the start of 2024. The projects go full throttle on transportation...
November 22, 2023
With the recent news that Amazon is partnering with Hyundai, the conventional wisdom might be to say: Amazon sells pretty much everything else across its platform, and as part of its...
September 29, 2023
Big Tech’s artificial intelligence (AI) arms race shows no signs of slowing to a cold war. At least not any time soon, while there are still consumers to convert and...
May 31, 2024
Apple is gearing up to give its digital assistant, Siri, an artificial intelligence-powered upgrade, potentially posing a challenge to Amazon’s dominant Alexa. The Cupertino-based tech giant is working on a new system that will allow users to control individual app functions using voice commands, marking a leap forward in Siri’s capabilities, Bloomberg reported Thursday (May […]
April 10, 2024
Amazon will stop paying developers to create applications — called Skills — for its voice assistant Alexa. This will end an offering that has been available to developers since 2017...
January 22, 2024
Would you pay a subscription to use Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa? Inside the company, that’s apparently the subject of some debate. A recent Business Insider report — citing internal documents...
December 21, 2023
Amazon veteran Dave Limp is going from Alexa to outer space. Limp, who led the company’s devices unit, was chosen by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to be CEO of his...
