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Amazon Announces Alexa+, Powered by Generative AI

AI is coming to Amazon Alexa! 🤖 Powered by generative AI, Amazon just launched their anticipated assistant, Alexa+ 👀 #alexaplus #amazon #amazonaievent #amazonalexa #technews Subscribe to CNET on YouTube: Never miss a deal again! See CNET’s browser extension 👉 Check out CNET’s Amazon Storefront: Follow us on TikTok: Follow us on Instagram: Follow us on…

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AI is coming to Amazon Alexa! 🤖 Powered by generative AI, Amazon just launched their anticipated assistant, Alexa+ 👀 #alexaplus #amazon #amazonaievent #amazonalexa #technews

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@Spoonyspoon27

February 26, 2025 at 11:06 am

Crashes and burns 😂

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@TKGZONE

February 26, 2025 at 11:06 am

zombies getting brainwashed on useless tech

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@Spoonyspoon27

February 26, 2025 at 11:07 am

I see you recently bought a hat would you like to see more hats you no longer need!

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@HedvigFryry

February 26, 2025 at 11:08 am

My partner and I tried to recreate a scene from a steamy romance novel. It ended with us both cracking up over the ridiculous dialogue and deciding to write our own version💚

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- @untalentedthe
  
  February 26, 2025 at 12:00 pm
  
  Okay cool.
  
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@isaacnewton3514

February 26, 2025 at 11:11 am

Tech companies always advertise AI ‘Booking restaurants’ as like their biggest use case but that’s such a small problem they’re fixing like surely AI has to do better than booking my favourite restaurant for me.

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- @dr_flunks
  
  February 26, 2025 at 11:14 am
  
  it’s so bad.
  
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- @bblande
  
  February 26, 2025 at 11:52 am
  
  I think I make a restaurant reservation maybe once a year if that.
  
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- @timmiller5909
  
  February 26, 2025 at 2:27 pm
  
  Once AI has taken all the jobs, who can afford to go to a restaurant?
  
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@WaynoGur

February 26, 2025 at 11:16 am

They’ve been promising this for a couple of years. Alexa is still as dumb as rocks.

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@zero11010

February 26, 2025 at 11:22 am

I’d like to see that text to the sitter. VERY much.

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@dj.neergamepro

February 26, 2025 at 11:25 am

What about the home Alexa devices

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@cyberwarlord7363

February 26, 2025 at 11:32 am

Show how ai is decoding organic protien sequences. Not…whatever this is.

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@Zeke2p9

February 26, 2025 at 11:37 am

Yeah ok. I hope they are doing this for the home and kindle devices because its not enough to replace Gemini being preinstalled on every android device.

Please make the home assistant less dumb.

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@bittergourd

February 26, 2025 at 11:56 am

Didn’t sunder already demoed this 7 years ago to book a hair salon, just without music?

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@untalentedthe

February 26, 2025 at 11:59 am

I don’t understand why people are recording rather than enjoying the presentation.

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@dailygrievance

February 26, 2025 at 12:22 pm

Can we get just one cool product in this country that isn’t associated with some loathsome billionaire?

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@fahadaldeghaither1507

February 26, 2025 at 1:38 pm

Support arabic lang

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@JamesSnider76

February 26, 2025 at 1:42 pm

Wonder if they’ll fix Alexa Auto’s absolute garbage listening skills and task completion failure rate so you can actually use Alexa on the go as the video says?

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@ChannelingHardy

February 26, 2025 at 2:08 pm

a non-informing, knowledge eroding medium.

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@timmiller5909

February 26, 2025 at 2:30 pm

With each response, Alexa will kindly give you a lesson on the importance of personal freedom and free markets.

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@joaohpriesnitz

February 26, 2025 at 3:24 pm

amazon didn’t release this full video?

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@Cookcoo-e8o

February 26, 2025 at 4:23 pm

What they gonna do introduce new hardware so we all have to ditch our old hardware that we spent a lot of cash on starting to sound like iPhone three years and you’re done

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@jjman533

February 26, 2025 at 5:16 pm

Your smart phones can’t do this now?

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@ghengisthegreat6133

February 26, 2025 at 5:50 pm

Wake me up when Alexa can make me a coffee, and bring it to me in bed

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@tucool2c

February 26, 2025 at 6:51 pm

How much more are they gonna charge for that?

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@jaygeek

February 26, 2025 at 8:24 pm

wen

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