Souped Alexa Arrives

Amazon's Souped-Up Alexa+ Arrives Next Month

Alexa+ will cost $20 a month but will be free for Amazon Prime members. It'll eventually arrive on nearly every Alexa device the company has shipped.

Wired - 8h

Theo James arrives in 'The Monkey' — twice

After 'The White Lotus' and 'The Gentlemen," the British-born actor takes his biggest risk yet in a dual role that doubles down on terror and comedy.

Los Angeles Times - 5d

Leigh Bowery Arrives at Tate Modern, Without Labels

A new exhibition about the indefinable performer and designer won’t pigeonhole him, though it will bring his work to a much broader audience.

The New York Times - 4d

Alexa relaunched with ambition to be 'your best digital friend'

It is available from March and included in a Prime subscription - or $19.99 to non-members.

BBC News - 8h

Amazon Unveils Alexa+, Powered by Generative A.I.

Amazon is aiming to catch up in generative artificial intelligence and to reboot its virtual assistant, which has been leapfrogged by powerful chatbots.

The New York Times - 5h

Group of mostly Asian migrants deported from U.S. arrive in Costa Rica

The flight of 135 deportees, half of them minors, included families from China, Afghanistan, Russia and more.

NBC News - 5d

Luka Doncic Has Officially Arrived as a Los Angeles Laker

The team’s newly acquired star erupted on Saturday in Denver.

The New York Times - 3d

'Eyes on the Prize III' arrives on HBO during a renewed 'assault on equality'

HBO's docuseries, inspired by Henry Hampton's seminal civil rights documentary, picks up where he left off, taking us through the Obama presidency and to the brink of the first Trump administration.

Los Angeles Times - 1d

Amazon Debuts New Alexa Voice Assistant With AI Overhaul

It’s called Alexa+, and the idea behind it is that generative AI can take the voice assistant to the next level.

Inc. - 9h

Here’s how the new Alexa+ could change the price of Amazon Prime

Amazon revealed its $19.99 Alexa+ service, which will tap generative AI to perform more advanced tasks. Prime members won’t have to pay extra for it — for now.

MarketWatch - 3h

With Its AI-Powered Alexa Plus, Amazon Just Put Apple on Notice

Amazon just showed off the AI future everyone is promising–including Apple.

Inc. - 1h

Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest-priced iPhone

Apple has released a sleeker and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone in an attempt to widen the audience for a bundle of artificial intelligence technology that the company has been ...

ABC News - Feb. 19

Struggling soup kitchens and hospitals in Sudan face uncertainty amid U.S. aid freeze

When President Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on foreign aid, no one felt the impact more than the people of Sudan. Two years of civil war has left more than 25 million Sudanese starving in what is ...

CBS News - 1d

Kaitlyn Dever Reacts To TLOU Season 2's Upcoming Arrival And Castmates Being A "Wonderful Family"

Kaitlyn Dever joins the cast of HBO's The Last of Us for its upcoming season season, playing the role of Abby. Season 2 is wrapped up and set for debut on April 13, and Dever was recently asked to ...

GameSpot - 2d

Amazon unveils revamped Alexa with AI features for $19.99 per month, free for Prime members

Amazon has been working for years to overhaul Alexa with generative AI features as it faced rising competition from OpenAI's ChatGPT and other chatbots.

CNBC - 7h

Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI

In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.

VentureBeat - 2h

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