When Amazon.com Inc. recruited longtime Microsoft Corp. product chief Panos Panay in 2023 to run its devices division, his new colleagues thought the e-commerce giant was preparing to take its consumer gadget line upscale. Panay pushed back on the idea ...

Amazon announced Alexa for Shopping, merging its Rufus e-commerce chatbot with Alexa+ into a unified experience, aiming to outdo ChatGPT and other general-purpose AI assistants for shopping.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Amazon's fall hardware event was chock full of updates. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the generative AI boom from the last year, the company began transforming Alexa into a much more versatile and ...

The second (and final) day of sales from Amazon Prime Day is underway. While there’s a huge range of discounts across all sorts of brands, Amazon’s own devices are heavily discounted during the 48-hour sale, exclusive to Prime members. You can also ...

Amazon kicked off its annual Fall Devices Event today, revealing its generative AI plans and offering a slew of Alexa and Echo announcements, Fire TV streaming news, and updates to Amazon’s smart home gear, like its Blink and Ring cameras and a new, yet ...

Amazon.com Inc. today introduced four new additions to its Echo line of smart home devices and refreshed its Kindle Scribe e-reader. The gadgets, which are rolling out alongside enhancements to Alexa+, made their debut at the company’s annual consumer ...

For many of us, smart home technology is no longer a trendy luxury—it’s a daily essential that keeps our busy lives moving along more efficiently. That is certainly the case for me, where these devices have become a way of life, offering everything ...

Amazon is holding an event on February 26 at 10AM ET, and that's unusually early in the year for the company, which typically has its launches in the fall like the rest of its peers. However, considering the last time Amazon had a "devices and services ...