WITH ALEXA PLUS, AMAZON FINALLY REINVENTS ITS BEST PRODUCT

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Amazon usually announces dozens of new gadgets at its event, but it spent 70 minutes at its press conference last week instead talking about Alexa Plus, its new generative AI-powered Alexa voice assistant. The company has focused on building cheap hardware for Alexa over the past decade and wasting efforts on failed ways for people to interact with the assistant rather than improving the core technology. The new Alexa was 100% rearchitected and is far more capable than its predecessor - which will remain accessible. It can order food, control smart home devices, create natural language security reports and menus, and much more.