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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in the division that handles its popular voice assistant Alexa as it plows more resources into artificial intelligence. In a note to employees on Friday, Daniel Rausch, Amazon’s vice president of Alexa and Fire TV, wrote that the company is eliminating certain roles because it […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in the unit that handles its popular voice assistant Alexa as it ploughs more resources into artificial intelligence (AI). In a note to employees on Friday, Amazon’s vice president of Alexa and Fire TV Daniel Rausch wrote that the company is eliminating certain roles because […]

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Alexa will converse more naturally next year, losing its robotic tone of nearly a decade, and answer questions like the start time for football games and recipe ideas. It will also be able to compose and recite poems, Amazon showed at the companys annual product launch in Arlington, Virginia.

Amazon has worked to pep up Alexa particularly after OpenAIs ChatGPT burst on the scene in November with longform written answers to complex queries.

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Is Your Alexa Or Ring Camera Gathering Too Much Info On You And Your Kids?

The Federal Trade Commission alleged Amazon violated a child privacy law and deceived customers, including parents.

The FTC said that “when parents asked Amazon to delete their kids’ Alexa voice data, the company did not delete all of it.”

Amazon reached two settlements with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, totaling $30 million for privacy violations from its Ring doorbell cameras and Alexa voice assistant devices.