Anthropic's Claude large language model is powering the majority of complex tasks for Amazon's new Alexa+, sources tell CNBC.

Giving Alexa the power of generative AI was already expected to be the star announcement from Amazon -- and it was. During ...

Echo devices will lose the ability to process locally and all your Alexa recordings will be sent to Amazon cloud.

Some of the new features are only built for products with screens. Alexa+ will not reach certain older Echo models — but Amazon says owners of those devices can continue to use the original assistant.

Amazon has sent out Alexa-themed invites for the February 26 event. Read our beat-by-beat breakdown of the event as we react to the news.

the company made a strong pitch that Alexa, its often-mocked smart voice assistant, has been given a new purpose — and a new business model — thanks to generative AI.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says that as the company unveils its next generation of Alexa, Alexa+, powered by generative artificial intelligence, it is keeping customers' privacy top of mind.

Amazon says that Alexa+, the new and improved Alexa unveiled on Wednesday, is powered by a “model agnostic” system that always uses the “best” AI model for a given task. On stage at a New ...

Amazon's Alexa+ can choose from a whole collection of generative AI models to fulfill your requests in a more conversational ...

This week we’re diving into OpenAI’s newest, biggest model GPT-4.5, Microsoft pulling the plug on Skype, how Anthropic used ...

Learn More Amazon is betting on agent interoperability and model mixing to make its new Alexa voice assistant more effective, retooling its flagship voice assistant with agentic capabilities and ...