Would You Pay Amazon $10 a Month for an AI-Infused Alexa?
Photo: Tyler Nottley / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) A major revamp of the Alexa platform is on the horizon, and it looks as if it’s going to cost you. Eight current and…
Alexa Will Get an Upgrade But It’ll Cost You, Report Says
Amazon is reportedly releasing a generative AI version of Alexa later this year and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee separate from Amazon Prime for the technology, according to…
Everything Announced at Google I/O So Far: Gemini Takes Its Throne on Android and Everywhere Else
Photo: Google You only need two letters to describe best the latest iteration of Google’s big yearly developer shebang: AI. That’s right; Google I/O has touched on a slew of…
Microsoft says it released 30 responsible AI tools in the past year
Microsoft shared its responsible artificial intelligence practices from the past year in an inaugural report, including releasing 30 responsible AI tools that have over 100 features to support AI developed…
Microsoft Copilot Generates Demons When Prompted for Abortion Rights Images, Employee Says
Microsoft Engineer Shane Jones is warning the world that his company’s AI image generator, Copilot Designer, needs to be removed from public use. In an interview with CNBC Wednesday, Jones…
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
Lonely on Valentine’s Day? AI can help. At least, that’s what a number of companies hawking “romantic” chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there’s a…
Arc Search Became My Favorite iPhone Browser Within Minutes of Using It
The Browser Company recently released an AI browser for iOS called Arc Search, and this is the quickest I have ever switched to a browser on my personal phone. I…
Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa
More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon’s standards, the service is a total failure. The problem is Alexa doesn’t make any money, and the service is a…
You’re Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds
For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in…
You’ll Soon Have to Pay $20 a Month to Access Copilot’s Coolest Features
Graphic: Microsoft My colleague Maxwell Zeff once described Microsoft Copilot as “if Clippy went to get his MBA.” Microsoft just announced a new premium subscription to its Copilot AI, which…