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  • Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa

    Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa

    More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon’s standards, the service is a total failure. The problem is Alexa doesn’t make any money, and the service is a huge drain on company resources. Apparently, Amazon has a last-ditch plan to save its digital assistant by supercharging it with AI and charging you for…


  • Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI

    Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI

    Last week, at Amazon’s annual Fall hardware event, executive David Limp revealed the company would soon be upgrading the capabilities of its well-known voice assistant, Alexa, using the supposedly magical power of generative AI. Earlier this year, Amazon rolled out AlexaLLM, a large language model designed to be integrated into the voice assistant to make…