amazon Amazon Features Celebrity Cast in New 90-Second Alexa Super Bowl Ad Amazon unveils a star-studded 90-second commercial for Alexa during the Super Bowl. The ad highlights the voice assistant's capabilities through a series of humorous celebrity interactions.
amazon Amazon Ships Long-Awaited Echo Auto After One Million Pre-Orders Amazon finally begins shipping its Echo Auto device to customers after receiving over a million pre-orders. Despite the delayed rollout, the company celebrates a milestone of 100 million Alexa devices sold to date.
amazon Amazon Says 100 Million Alexa Devices Have Been Sold Amazon reveals that over 100 million devices with Alexa have been sold to date. The company aggressively expands its smart home platform lead as a massive intelligent assistant war brews.
amazon Amazon Tests Virtual Showroom Tool for Living Room Furniture Design Amazon quietly launches Amazon Showroom, a visual design tool that lets shoppers customize and purchase complete living room setups. The feature allows users to change wall colors, swap furniture, and buy entire room designs in one click.
amazon Amazon Surpasses 100 Million Alexa Device Sales Amazon announces that it has sold over 100 million devices featuring its Alexa voice assistant. The milestone highlights the company's aggressive strategy to integrate the technology into a wide variety of hardware.
nfl The NFL Launches Its First Standalone Voice App with 'A Rookie’s Guide to the NFL' for Alexa The NFL launches its first standalone voice app for Alexa called "A Rookie's Guide to the NFL" just in time for the 2019 playoffs.
alexa The Number of Alexa Skills in the U.S. More Than Doubled in 2018 The number of Alexa skills in the U.S. more than doubles in 2018, reaching over 56,000 as developers push out an average of 85 new skills per day.
amazon Amazon Alexa Skills Double in the US During 2018 The number of Alexa skills available in the United States more than doubles throughout 2018, showcasing strong developer interest in Amazon's voice platform. However, questions remain regarding the actual monetization and user discovery of these rapidly growing voice applications.
cloud gaming Tech Giants Battle for Dominance in Cloud Gaming Market Major technology companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tencent invest heavily in cloud gaming infrastructure as the industry enters a new competitive era.
amazon Amazon Abandons AI Hiring Tool After It Learns to Discriminate Against Women Amazon scraps an experimental artificial intelligence recruiting engine after discovering it automatically penalizes female job candidates. The system learns this bias by studying the tech industry's historically male-dominated resume pool.
amazon Amazon Abandons Biased AI Hiring Tool That Favored Men Over Women Amazon scraps an AI recruitment system after discovering it learns to discriminate against female candidates. The incident highlights how biased training data creates flawed algorithms.
amazon Amazon Scraps AI Recruiting Tool After It Learns to Discriminate Against Women Amazon abandons an experimental AI recruiting engine after discovering it automatically penalizes female candidates. The system learns this sexist behavior by training on a decade of male-dominated tech industry resumes.
amazon Amazon Abandons AI Recruiting Tool After Discovering Anti-Woman Bias Amazon scraps a secret AI hiring engine after discovering it systematically penalizes female job applicants. The system learns to prefer male candidates by training on a decade of male-dominated resumes.
amazon Amazon Workers Urge Bezos to Halt Police Face Recognition Sales A group of Amazon employees is demanding that CEO Jeff Bezos stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies. The workers warn the software will harm marginalized communities and urge the company to drop Palantir from its cloud servers.
amazon Investors Demand Amazon Halt Police Facial Recognition Sales A group of Amazon investors representing billions in stock urge the company to stop selling its Rekognition facial recognition software to police due to legal and ethical concerns.