In his new shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy details the company's “Why Culture” and outlines major progress in AI ...

The letter is aimed at shareholders, but is closely read by employees, competitors and analysts. As is tradition, Amazon ...

Currently, the model supports multiple expressive voices, both masculine and feminine, in American and British English.

A new speech-to-speech AI model from Amazon, called Nova Sonic, unifies speech recognition and generation to deliver more ...

Our new gen AI model picks up on tone, inflection, and pacing, for a deeper understanding of human conversation.

An experimental developer kit for building AI agents that can navigate the web and complete tasks autonomously, powered by ...

Amazon's big 2025 Alexa announcement hit late last month, and we were there to cover the demos and new features. The new AI upgrade is aimed at making Alexa more conversational and at letting the ...

From what we've learned, this change is in preparation for Amazon's launch of its huge AI upgrade to Alexa called Alexa Plus. Based on what Amazon has said, no Echo owner will have a choice with ...

NVIDIA provided hardware for Echo devices prior to 2021. Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic ...

Amazon Echo users are set to lose the option to store and process their Alexa requests locally, meaning all of their voice recordings will be sent to Amazon’s cloud. After March 28, Amazon will ...

Amazon Alexa is more ubiquitous than ever and is now available in around 50 countries worldwide – and in a host of languages. After initially only being supported in the US, Canada, UK, India, Japan ...

Although simple technology, modern kettles can come with a whole host of smart features - including the ability to start a boil with voice control via Alexa. This kitchen gadget from Swan goes a ...