The hiring plans come amid a race with competitors including Anthropic and Microsoft Corp. to woo corporate customers using AI as coding assistants.

Three styles — Brief, Chill, and Sweet — are available for Alexa Plus users in the US. Three styles — Brief, Chill, and Sweet — are available for Alexa Plus users in the US. is a news writer focused ...

Alexa responds with “All systems operational” in the new Brief personality mode on an Echo Show. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Tired of Alexa’s constant chatter? Wish Amazon’s voice assistant would ...

Recently, Amazon introduced their new and improved Alexa service called Alexa+, which is designed to be more conversational and have expanded capabilities. Alexa+ is included with certain new Echo ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

The new “Send to Alexa” feature lets you send Kindle Scribe notebooks to your Echo device with just a couple of taps. I took the new feature for a spin, and it does work. Alexa+ did a good job ...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy writes at The Verge: I’ve used Alexa to manage my shopping list for years. There are plenty of great list apps out there, but the convenience of adding items by voice anywhere ...

Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down ...

For years, Alexa mostly stayed in one place. It lived on kitchen counters, nightstands, or living room shelves. That setup worked for music and timers, but it also limited when and how people could ...

Users can revert back to the original Alexa, but can’t opt out of the automatic update. Users can revert back to the original Alexa, but can’t opt out of the automatic update. is a news writer ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Though it was not the first, Alexa is probably one of the best-known smart home assistants today. In the early days of these devices, the ...