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The rollout of Amazon's new "GenAI-powered" Alexa+ blends Orwell's 1984 with the exciting world of e-commerce.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s New Alexa AI Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare

By Joe Wilkins

Amazon is removing the setting to opt-out of having your Alexa voice recordings being sent to and store on its servers — forever.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Announces New Spying Initiative for Alexa

By Frank Landymore

According to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, the company still has to solve the problem of "hallucinations" before releasing an AI Alexa.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon initially envisioned its Alexa, the voice assistant that comes with its Echo smart home devices, as a means to sell more stuff.
Robots and Machines

Amazon Horrified by What People Actually Use Alexa For

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon's Alexa has been caught falsely saying that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen by a massive amount of election fraud."
Robots and Machines

Amazon’s Alexa Goes MAGA, Claims 2020 Election Was Stolen

By Sharon Adarlo

"They were all dumb as a rock," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, told the FT last month, speaking to digital assistants like Cortana, Siri, and Alexa.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Trashes Siri and Alexa for Being “Dumb as a Rock”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lockheed Martin showed off an Amazon Alexa-enabled "party mode" on board NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft, which is making its way around the Moon.
NASA

NASA Shows Off Artemis “Party Mode,” Powered by Amazon (TM) Alexa (TM)

By Victor Tangermann

Many kids — and their parents — have stumbled on a fascinating discovery: that yelling “poop” at their Alexa devices made a certain song play.
Artificial Intelligence

Genius Musicians Are Making Songs That Play When Children Yell “Poop” at Alexa

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon is planning to allow its Alexa smart speaker to mimic the voices of deceased loved ones, arguably a rather crass failure to read the room.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Shows Off Tech That Lets Alexa Copy Voice of Dead Relatives

By Victor Tangermann

In yet another odd marriage of capitalism and space travel,  Lockheed Martin has announced that it will be sending an Amazon Echo as part of the upcoming Artemis 1 mission.
Moon

NASA Is Installing Amazon Alexa on Its Next Moon Mission, for Some Cursed Reason

By Tony Ho Tran

We now have yet another reason to despise Amazon after the company's Tuesday outage left tons of people with "smart homes" in the lurch.
Internet Of Things

Amazon Outage Shuts Down IoT Vacuums, Doorbells, Fridges, Even Home Locks

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a world saturated with Amazon's Alexa, bullied kids have actually had to change their names in hopes of a fresh start.
Future Society

Teenager Named Alexa Legally Changes Name Because of Amazon Product

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon is reportedly developing a device, codenamed "Brahms" that uses radar to track your breathing and monitor for sleep apnea.
Prosthetics and Devices

New Alexa Device Scans Your Body Using Radar

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon is launching a Alexa for Residential service that makes it easier for landlords to convert units into smart apartments.
Future Society

Amazon Promises Its Alexa For Landlords System Doesn’t Spy on Tenants

By Dan Robitzski

An investigation reveals that schoolchildren in China are working illegal hours to manufacture Amazon Echo products as part of a school internship.
Robots and Machines

Foxconn Used Child Labor to Manufacture Amazon Alexa Gadgets

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon's new privacy updates for its Alexa voice assistant are a step in the right direction, but the company still has a lot of ground to make up.
Artificial Intelligence

You Can Now Tell Alexa to Delete Everything You Said Today

By Kristin Houser