A developer built Karl, a local, always-listening AI assistant that operates without a wake word and stores all data on-device rather than in the cloud. The project is positioned as an alternative to …
Reolink unveiled the OMVI 2i Ultra security camera at IFA 2026, featuring dual cameras that combine an 8MP ultra-wide view with a 5MP pan-and-tilt camera to track subjects beyond the wide camera's fie…
Amazon is rolling out a feature that lets users ask Alexa to verify whether a message claiming to be from Amazon is authentic, using a multi-layered analysis that includes internal record matching, co…
Ricardo Ferreira of Redis presented a session on context engineering for production-grade AI, detailing his development of an Alexa skill called My Jarvis that uses the open-source Agent Memory Server…
Amazon launched a new feature called "Update Me When" within its Alexa for Shopping AI assistant on Tuesday, enabling personalized notifications about new products, TV seasons, concert tours, books, a…
The term 'artificial intelligence' has become so overused that it has lost its meaning, with companies like Canva labeling basic automation tools as AI and products such as Coca-Cola's AI-co-created f…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an AI field that enables computers to understand and generate human language, powering applications like chatbots, search engines, and content creation. Key techni…
A computer engineer explains that Siri and Alexa sound human through text-to-speech technology, which simulates the human voice by breaking words into phonemes and using machine learning to create nat…
A Reviews.org survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers found that 64% do not trust AI assistants, with concern scores for Alexa, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Siri ranging from 63% to 65% and consumer concern up 30% yea…
OpenAI's first hardware device, designed by Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, will be a donut-shaped smart speaker with no display, roughly the size of a hockey puck, and priced over $300, according to Bloo…
The global AI assistant market was valued at $19.1 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $114.1 billion by 2035, according to MarketsandMarkets. Databricks reports that over 72% of Genie Code user…
Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story 'There Will Come Soft Rains' depicts a fully automated smart house in Allendale, California, on August 4, 2026, continuing its daily routines—announcing the date, prepa…
Amazon reported a 37% jump in AWS revenue, driven by its Bedrock platform offering multiple AI models from providers like Anthropic and OpenAI, as CEO Andy Jassy said there will not be one model to ru…
An engineer built a system that lets them start coding tasks on Claude Code by speaking to an Amazon Alexa device. The main challenge was Alexa's eight-second response limit, which forced a design whe…
Amazon is preparing a major overhaul of its Prime Video streaming service, internally named Project Lighthouse, that will prioritize artificial intelligence to deliver more personalized content recomm…
Amazon Prime Video is testing an AI-focused overhaul internally called Lighthouse, driven by Jeff Bezos, to deliver AI-derived content recommendations and a refreshed app UI. The initiative aims to hi…
Amazon has redesigned Alexa to rely less on Anthropic's Claude models, part of a sweeping effort to lower AI costs, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider. The initiatives were e…
Surya Sai Brahmendra Ramoju, a 2024 Northeastern University graduate with a master's degree in data analytics engineering, now works at Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence division in Boston deve…
A new metric called the Genie coefficient is proposed to measure the gap between what users ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how they want it done, addressing the fundamental problem…
Teya, an open-source AI family agent built to run on a wall-mounted Android phone, was released on GitHub by developer adgapar. The agent listens, understands, remembers, and acts across household tas…