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Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, generative AI-powered version of its Alexa assistant, is available to all U.S. customers as of Wednesday. The company said that the AI feature will be free to Prime members ...

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OpenAI reportedly raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation, backing massive AI infrastructure expansion as profitability questions loom.

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Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI), ...

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As voice search becomes AI synthesis, marketers must optimize for conversational inclusion — not blue-link visibility.

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