Amazon says its Alexa+ voice assistant is now available to customers in Brazil. It’s part of an ongoing rollout of the upgraded Alexa that began earlier this year, and is scheduled to continue into 2027, Amazon announced Thursday (June 18). “Powered by generative AI, the new Alexa+ represents a...
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. This new feature is now available to all U.S. customers, the company said in a Monday...
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 says it has given Alexa+ users new ways to order food from Uber Eats and Grubhub. “Imagine ordering delivery the same way you would with a waiter — changing your mind, asking questions, and customizing as you go, all in one continuous conversation,” the...
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+. Amazon’s newly rebuilt Alexa+ represents a significant shift toward agentic AI, according to Wired. The article reports that Amazon redesigned […]
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...
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...
March 07, 2025
In 2011, Apple debuted Siri, the world’s first digital assistant embedded in a smartphone. It was revolutionary in its functionality and technology. For the first time, users could talk to...
June 30, 2026
Amazon has expanded the price history function of its agentic artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant. Alexa for Shopping now shows 30, 90, and 365 days of price history, “so customers can feel confident they’re getting a great deal,” Amazon wrote in a recent blog post. “Since launching in 2024, over 50 million customers have checked […]
June 18, 2026
Amazon says its Alexa+ voice assistant is now available to customers in Brazil. It’s part of an ongoing rollout of the upgraded Alexa that began earlier this year, and is scheduled...
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. This...
April 05, 2026
Amazon says it has given Alexa+ users new ways to order food from Uber Eats and Grubhub. “Imagine ordering delivery the same way you would with a waiter — changing...
