Amazon Announced Layoffs in Alexa Voice Assistant Unit to Focus on Gen AI

Amazon Announced Layoffs in Alexa Voice Assistant Unit to Focus on Gen AI

Amazon.com on Friday announced it is trimming jobs at its Alexa voice assistant unit, citing shifting business priorities and a greater focus on generative artificial intelligence. The cuts affect several hundred employees working on Alexa, according to the email. A spokeswoman declined to elaborate on exactly how many were affected. “We’re shifting some of our …

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Accessibility a key focus for Alexa product development, Alexa Canada’s country manager says

Accessibility a key focus for Alexa product development, Alexa Canada’s country manager says

Amazon Canada recently held its first Alexa & Accessibility Event in Toronto to show off its smart home accessibility features. Celine Lee, the country manager for Alexa Canada, told MobileSyrup the company focuses on being the “earth’s most customer-centric company,” and the event was an opportunity to show how it was making good on the …

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Your Amazon Echo just got a secret Wi-Fi upgrade

Your Amazon Echo just got a secret Wi-Fi upgrade

Amazon has just switched on a secret update in thousands of Amazon Echo devices across the UK that is designed to improve the Wi-Fi coverage in your home. Several Alexa smart speakers have tech sitting inside them that Amazon has now turned on, which can grab onto your Wi-Fi signal and act as an extender …

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How to Celebrate Halloween with Alexa

It’s Halloween, and everyone’s entitled to one good scare. If you have an Alexa device in your house, you can definitely use it pull off some spooky tricks this Halloween.