Amazon has introduced Alexa for Shopping, combining its Rufus shopping chatbot with Alexa+ across its app, website, and Echo Show devices. The assistant can answer product questions, compare items, track prices, and support shopping reminders. It can also handle scheduled shopping actions and eligible automated purchases. The company said Alexa for Shopping combines Rufus’ product […]
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Alexa Plus, Amazon's upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on "virtually any topic," according to an announcement on Monday. With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, and the AI assistant will offer an overview of what its AI hosts plan to talk about, allowing you to steer the conversation and adjust its length before it starts generating the episode.
Some "Alexa Podcast" examples shared by Amazon have two AI-generated hosts talking about the history of the Roman Empire, new music, and expectations for the World Cup. Amazon says you can also ask Alexa Plus to generate audio lessons about the Apollo missions, o …
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Graphon AI emerged from stealth with $8.3 million in seed funding to build a new class of AI infrastructure: a pre-model intelligence layer that captures how data connects — making foundation models more accurate and capable of reasoning over unlimited multimodal data. The round was led by Arvind Gupta of Novera Ventures, with participation from […]
A chatbot can sound calm, considered, and confident while giving advice that causes real harm. It has no license to lose, no one to be reported to, and no obligation that survives the chat window closing. That is not a small gap. It is the central problem with AI in mental health in 2026.
A chatbot can sound calm, considered, and confident while giving advice that causes real harm. It has no license to lose, no one to be reported to, and no obligation that survives the chat window closing. That is not a small gap. It is the central problem with AI in mental health in 2026.
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TLDR Tehran is developing an official framework to regulate and monetize maritime passage through the Strait of Hormuz Access will be restricted to vessels aligned with Iranian interests; ships connected to Washington’s “Project Freedom” will be denied passage Major technology corporations including Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon face potential charges for subsea cable infrastructure traversing the waterway Iranian government-affiliated outlets have suggested possible interference with cable systems if payment demands are ignored Earlier reports indicated Tehran might accept cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin, for transit fees Tehran is positioning itself to capitalize financially on its strategic hold over the Strait of Hormuz, rolling out initiatives to extract fees from both maritime traffic and international technology corporations for passage through this
You walk into the interview room. The whiteboard displays the following prompt: “A major retailer wants to deploy a GenAI chatbot for customer support. How would you approach this?” You have 35 minutes. Your palms are sweating. Sound familiar? GenAI case studies currently serve as the primary challenge which interviewers use to test candidates in […]
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“I’ve got one hand on the keyboard, one hand down below,” an artist who role-plays with their chatbot tells WIRED. But some asexual advocates aren’t thrilled about the association.
