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For years, Alexa mostly stayed in one place. It lived on kitchen counters, nightstands or living room shelves. That setup worked for music and timers, but it also limited when and how people could ...

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ChatGPT is a lot simpler to use than you think, and there are many ways to make it work well for you. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest ...

Alexa+ is Amazon's generative AI upgrade to its Alexa virtual assistant. After months in an early access program, Amazon is debuting the Alexa.com website. Users can chat with Alexa+ on the site, just ...

New Alexa+ features let you type or chat instead of just talking. It’s part of Amazon’s push to make Alexa a full-fledged AI helper across devices Amazon just took a bold step in the evolution of its ...

Amazon is making a serious push to be your personal AI assistant across every device you use. At CES 2026, the company announced Alexa.com, bringing its AI assistant directly to web browsers.

Yahoo this week unveiled Scout, an AI-powered "answer engine" now in beta across desktop (at scout.yahoo.com), mobile ...

A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named “slop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on what to expect from AI in 2026. In his classic, intellectual style, Nadella ...