Next-gen Amazon Alexa might not need you to ask

Amazon has been hard at work on a subscription-based, next-generation of Alexa with generative AI features, but is now hinting about a future version of the assistant that’ll take the initiative without your prompts. During an earnings call on Thursday, the Amazon CEO Andy Jassy used a term we haven’t seen associated with Alexa, Siri and co. all that often: “Agentic”. In this parlance he’s referring to a potential version of Alexa that could do things for you, without

Read more