In the coming weeks and months, upgrades to Amazon’s Alexa will be in customers’ hands. Alexa+ is the next step for the smart home assistant and it’s exponentially improved – and it makes Apple’s Siri ...

Apple and Amazon were early movers with voice assistants. Their upgrades are panning out differently. Andy Jassy said on Thursday's earnings call that 100,000 users now have Amazon's Alexa+. Tim Cook ...

Ask Alexa or Siri about the weather. But if you want to save someone’s life? Call 911 for that. Voice assistants often fall flat when asked how to perform CPR, according to a study published Monday.

More than four months ago in New York City, Amazon executive Panos Panay said a new version of the Alexa virtual assistant would soon launch on the web at Alexa.com to “help you do the long-form work ...

Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia.

It was a tale of two voice assistants. Amazon and Apple showed during Thursday earnings calls just how far apart they are in the race to build a smarter AI assistant. Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed the ...

Andy Jassy and Tim Cook had very different updates about their revamped voice assistants.Juan Pablo Rico/Sipa USA/ Reuters and Kevin Lamarque/Getty Images It was a tale of two voice assistants. Amazon ...