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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge 3 place · today 08:00 EDT

With Alexa Plus, Amazon finally reinvents its best product

The biggest surprise at Amazon’s press conference last week was the lack of hardware announcements. Traditionally, Amazon announces dozens of new gadgets at its events, but this time, Amazon spent 70 minutes talking about software. Specifically, Alexa Plus, its new generative AI-powered Alexa voice assistant. And that was exactly the right move.  Over the past […]

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