Amazon debuted a more sophisticated version of Alexa on Wednesday that’s more conversational and can handle tasks on your behalf. But in a surprising departure from its usual playbook, the company didn’t announce new Echo devices to go with its revamped digital helper.

While most of Amazon’s planned $100bn in capital expenditure this year will be spent on expanding AI initiatives such as computing infrastructure, about a quarter will be directed at its ecommerce arm where the business is investing heavily in automation,

Alexa+, Amazon’s revamped version of Alexa was unveiled Wednesday, bringing the popular voice assistant into the artificial intelligence era.

Online retail behemoth Amazon on Wednesday announced a new version of its Alexa voice assistant that is powered by generative artificial intelligence, giving the device more human-like qualities.

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Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Bloomberg that the tech giant would announce new gadgets later in 2025, amid speculation that it would do so during yesterday's event to unveil its new generative artificial intelligence-powered Alexa+ service.

But I think you can imagine, there’s going to be a whole slew of AI devices that are coming,” he told CNN in an interview. His remarks come as tech giants are racing to incorporate AI agents and chatbots into new devices.

Tech giant Amazon on Monday said it will use artificial intelligence to reduce flood risks in Spain's northeastern region of Aragon where it is building data centres.

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Amazon has been working for years to overhaul Alexa with generative AI features as it faced rising competition from OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other chatbots.

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