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At the upcoming Sight Tech Global conference, two of Amazon’s accessibility leaders will discuss how Amazon continues to dig deeper into the Alexa.

Amazon's AI-enabled feature allows children to create animated stories based on several prompts and voice commands.

Tech giant Amazon is gutting the internal team developing its Alexa home voice assistant, according to recent reports. One former employee calls Alexa a  "colossal failure of imagination," adding "it was a wasted opportunity."

Amazon's Alexa smart assistant will lose the company around $10 billion this year alone, according to a new report, with most hardware sold at a loss.

Alphabet executives have also called for a need to sharpen focus in recent months by lowering project costs and increasing efficiency by 20 percent.

With Amazon Alexa reportedly responsible for $10 billion in expenses in 2022, teams working on the smart speaker are expected to see mass layoffs as a major cost-saving measure.

Amazon will continue to engage in buyouts and layoffs next year, according to CEO Andy Jassy.

In the first quarter of this year, the "Worldwide Digital" unit of Amazon's business, which includes Echo and Alexa, had a $3 billion operating loss.

Amazon's mounting losses and massive job cuts underscore a failure in the hardware business model the company once pioneered.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company will continue to layoff workers into the new year in a memo sent around Thursday.