Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company’s shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you’ll be talking to Alexa for Shopping, the company’s new shopping assistant, powered by Alexa Plus. So, while a search for “toilet paper” will still return the expected […]
Amazon’s devices chief says the company is not chasing a conventional smartphone, even as reports point to a mobile AI device inspired by Alexa.
Amazon’s head of devices and services, Panos Panay, says that the company is “not necessarily” planning to release a smartphone, but has stopped short of denying it outright. It was previously reported that Amazon is developing an Alexa-enabled AI phone codenamed “Transformer,” more than 10 years after it scrapped its ill-fated Fire Phone. Speaking to […]
Following a limited test run in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia that started last December, Amazon Now is officially available to millions of Amazon shoppers across the United States. In addition to Seattle and Philadelphia, the 30-minute delivery service is now widely available in Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth, and also available with ongoing expansions in […]
Amazon says its new ultra-fast delivery option brings groceries, household essentials, and other items to customers’ doors in 30 minutes.
BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan have the mandate. Maturities run from three years to 25 years. The trade follows Alphabet’s record Swiss issuance in February and Amazon’s $37bn dollar deal in March, and is the latest demonstration that hypersca…
Finding something to watch on Prime Videos may soon feel more like scrolling Shorts than browsing a streaming menu.
The Clips feed aims to enable discovery by offering users a scrollable feed with short snippets of shows and movies.
Amazon Prime Video is joining Netflix and Disney Plus in adding a vertical feed of videos to its streaming app. The new “Clips” feed will offer a stream of short-form videos from shows and movies, with options to jump into the full title, rent, or buy it. Prime Video previously offered a TikTok-style feed with […]
A single data centre’s cooling system fell behind. AWS shifted traffic away from the affected zone and warned that fully restoring the remaining services would take longer than expected. Amazon Web Services said on Thursday that one of its data centres…