Alexa news and trends

Amazon’s Alexa Offers Customers 365-Day View of Price History

June 30, 2026
Amazon’s Alexa+ Aims to Tackle Brazil’s Many Languages
Alexa // June 18, 2026

Amazon says its Alexa+ voice assistant is now available to customers in Brazil. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...

Amazon Deploys Alexa AI to Disrupt Print-on-Demand Market
Amazon // June 08, 2026

Amazon’s U.S. customers can now use the company’s AI-powered Alexa for Shopping to create custom designs to be printed on T-shirts, water bottles and other apparel and drinkware items. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Amazon Says Rufus Gives It an Edge in Agentic Commerce Race
Amazon // April 29, 2026

Amazon’s first-quarter earnings call sounded less like a retail update than a briefing on the next phase of cloud computing. The overwhelming majority of the discussion centered on AWS, artificial intelligence infrastructure and the chips Amazon says are now becoming a major business of their...

Amazon’s Alexa+ Adds Conversational Uber Eats and Grubhub Ordering
Amazon // April 05, 2026

Amazon says it has given Alexa+ users new ways to order food from Uber Eats and Grubhub. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our...

Interviews & Exclusives
Amazon Pushes Alexa Into Full Agent Mode

December 08, 2025
Agentic AI’s intersection with devices like phones, speakers and personal assistants hadn’t been visited much in the Prompt Economy. At least that was the case, up until last week when we heard from an upgraded Alexa+. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS […]

Customer First, Agentic AI Next. Amazon Lays Out Its 2025 Roadmap

May 01, 2025
Most earnings announcements and ensuing analyst calls are spent discussing all the money — or lack of it — the host company made during the previous quarter. Not so at...

Apple’s Siri: Once a Pioneer, Now an AI Laggard

March 20, 2025
When Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Siri, debuted in 2011, it was revolutionary for giving users the ability to “talk” to their smartphone. Siri’s capabilities were made possible by machine...

Siri’s Original Co-Designer Says Apple’s ‘Fear of Not Being Perfect’ Hampers Siri Revamp

March 07, 2025
In 2011, Apple debuted Siri, the world’s first digital assistant embedded in a smartphone. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Quick Reads
Amazon’s Alexa Offers Customers 365-Day View of Price History

June 30, 2026
Amazon has expanded the price history function of its agentic artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to receive […]

Amazon’s Alexa+ Aims to Tackle Brazil’s Many Languages

June 18, 2026
Amazon says its Alexa+ voice assistant is now available to customers in Brazil. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Amazon Deploys Alexa AI to Disrupt Print-on-Demand Market

June 08, 2026
Amazon’s U.S. customers can now use the company’s AI-powered Alexa for Shopping to create custom designs to be printed on T-shirts, water bottles and other apparel and drinkware items. Get...

Amazon’s Alexa+ Adds Conversational Uber Eats and Grubhub Ordering

April 05, 2026
Amazon says it has given Alexa+ users new ways to order food from Uber Eats and Grubhub. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...