Amazon is preparing to introduce an updated version of its Alexa voice assistant, set to launch in October just in time for the US shopping season. Known internally as “Remarkable,” this new version will incorporate Anthropic’s Claude AI models. Reports from insiders reveal that this development follows the subpar performance of Amazon’s previous software endeavors. […]
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Tech giants like Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta are riding high on a wave of revenue from AI-driven cloud services, yet simultaneously drowning in the substantial costs of pushing AI’s boundaries. Recent financial reports paint a picture of a double-edged sword: on one side, impressive gains; on the other, staggering expenses. This dichotomy has led Bloomberg […]
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Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon’s AI-powered assistive coding tool. As of today, it’s kaput — sort of. CodeWhisperer is now Q Developer, a part of Amazon’s Q family of business-oriented generative AI chatbots that also extends to the newly announced Q Business. Available through AWS, Q Developer helps with some of the tasks developers […]
Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $1.25 billion it invested at the time must be producing results, or perhaps they’ve realized that there are no other horses available to back. The September deal put $1.25 billion into […]
Last month, Amazon announced that it’d launch a new AI-powered chatbot, Rufus, inside the Amazon Shopping app for Android and iOS. After a few days’ delay, the company began to roll out Rufus to early testers February 1 — including some of us at TechCrunch — to help find and compare products as well as […]
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Amazon’s researchers have developed the largest text-to-speech model to date which shows “emergent” advances to sound out complicated sentences in a more natural manner. This advancement could be exactly what the technology needs to finally go beyond the uncanny valley. It was expected that these models would continue to evolve and get better, but what […]