Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+

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Insider Brief Amazon is rolling out a new AI-powered shopping assistant called Alexa for Shopping that combines conversational AI, personalized recommendations and automation tools across the company’s shopping app, website and Echo devices. According to Amazon, the system merges Amazon’s Alexa+ assistant with Rufus, the company’s AI shopping tool, which Amazon said helped more than […]

Alexa for Shopping is Amazon’s new AI-powered shopping assistant. | Image: Amazon Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company's shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you'll be talking to Alexa for Shopping, the company's new shopping assistant, powered by Alexa Plus. So, while a search for "toilet paper" will still return the expected list of brands, typing "What's a good skincare routine for men" or "When did I last order AA batteries" will now trigger an answer from Alexa. Alexa for Shopping is replacing Amazon's Rufus AI shopping assistant and, unlike Rufus, it will be front and center in the Amazon app and on the … Read the full story at The Verge.

It feels like the world’s longest and most public divorce: In late April, Microsoft and OpenAI once again renegotiated the slow-motion breakup that has been playing out between the two over the last several years. At first glance, it looks like a win-win. In the broadest terms, OpenAI gets more freedom to set its own course — it can sell its models to Microsoft competitors such as Amazon and Google, for example — while Microsoft gets a better revenue deal and first rights to the newest OpenAI technologies into the next decade.  But in truth, one company got a better deal than the other. Who came out ahead? To figure that out, we first need to look at the most important details of the new agreement.  A new deal after a lot of rancor Keep in mind that this new agreement didn’t arise from thin air. It’s a direct result of Microsoft’s threats in March to sue OpenAI when inked a $50 billion deal with Amazon that makes the latter company the only third-party cloud provider ⁠for ⁠OpenAI’s ent

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