Amazon just entered a whole new market now that Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, is HIPAA-compliant, which it means it can handle patients’ sensitive information. In a...
Apple has acquired machine learning startup Laserlike to boost its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, including Siri. According to The Information, the acquisition, which was confirmed...
Amazon’s Alexa Fund has announced the launch of the third year of the Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Up to ten companies from around the world...
PullString, a San Francisco maker of technology that enables people to design and publish voice-activated apps, was acquired by Apple. Axios, citing multiple sources, reported...
The head of Siri at Apple has moved on to another position within the company. Bill Stasior, who has been in charge of Siri since...
Amazon’s record-breaking holiday shopping season was powered in part by voice-activated shopping, with the eCommerce giant saying orders placed via Alexa were three times higher...
Amazon has launched an invite-only program that asks customers to submit answers to Alexa’s more difficult questions. According to a report, Amazon has been internally...
Five years ago, a voice-activated device was mostly something that existed in the realm of science fiction. Siri had been around for a year or two...