Here's what to know about the assistants running your home . . . your car . . . your phone Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa are the two leading virtual assistants for a reason. Both come in ...

AI-powered personal assistants have become essential in our fast-paced lives, helping us manage tasks, control smart devices, ...

Google is shutting down Assistant on Fitbit smartwatches “over the next few weeks.” Users will no longer be able to use ...

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This latest version of Alexa+ should be able to better understand colloquial speech and complex or half-formed ideas. Like other generative AI models, Alexa+ will also be better at understanding ...

Amazon will start Alexa's March revival with the virtual assistant ahead in the numbers, but not by much. About half of US adults have used a home voice assistant since Jan. 1, and Alexa ranked at ...

The new avatar of Amazon's in-house virtual assistant is turbocharged by generative ... and there's no way to disable that exchange. Amazon's Alexa devices haven't maintained a squeaky-clean ...

The latest announcement from Amazon revealed a dramatically changed future for Alexa. The executive in charge talks ...

Amazon is removing a key privacy feature from its Echo smart speakers that one tech expert has called ‘absolutely unforgivable’. Some devices can process voice requests locally – ‘on-device’ – so all ...

Let’s get started. For the most part, we recommend Google Assistant, Gemini, or Amazon Alexa, as they are the top of the pantheon along with Siri on iOS. You can also get Google Home and Amazon ...

This two-step change means Alexa users need to make a trade-off between privacy and functionality. Put simply, Amazon needs Echo devices to start making money. As US voice assistant expert Joseph ...