Larry Magid: Amazon upgrades Alexa with AI, and a new Echo for kids

Amazon has added generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to its Alexa voice assistant and launched new AI-powered devices ...
Wired

Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out

This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. In an email sent to ...
Ars Technica

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer ...

I talked to Alexa for days on the Amazon Echo Dot Max to see if it’s worth $100

The Echo Dot Max is one of Amazon’s most robust and best-sounding smart speakers yet, though plenty of folks will be served just as well by cheaper options.
ZDNet

All your Alexa recordings will go to the cloud soon, as Amazon sunsets Echo privacy

Amazon is curtailing a privacy-minded feature that will affect owners of certain Echo devices. In an email sent last Friday to a number of customers, Amazon revealed that as of March 28, it will ...