With new Alexa website, Amazon’s consumer AI vision finally comes together — and it’s actually useful

Amazon has quietly launched Alexa.com, bringing its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant to the web and completing a long-missing piece of its consumer AI strategy. Here are our first impressions.
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Amazon CEO Says New AI Leader Has ‘Unified Focus,’ Unveils AI Innovator Prasad’s Departure

Andy Jassy appoints AWS executive Peter Desantis to a new position unifying AI models, chip development and quantum computing as AI head Rohit Prasad leaves.

Amazon’s new Alexa+ feature adds conversational AI to Ring doorbells

Amazon said that the feature uses the Ring doorbell's video descriptions to determine who the person in front of the camera is based on their uniform, actions, and what they are holding.

Amazon has a new leader for its ‘AGI’ group as it plays catch-up on AI

Rohit Prasad is stepping down, while Amazon puts Peter DeSantis in charge of AI models, chips, and quantum computing.

Amazon re:Invent: 7 Takeaways For The Agentic AI And Blockchain Era

Invent 2025 signals the shift from AI experimentation to AI architecture. Seven insights for business leaders navigating agentic AI, unified data, and Web3.

Amazon Just Declared War On NVIDIA : Inside Amazon’s New AI Tranium Chip

Tranium 3 integrates with NVIDIA NVLink on AWS, helping architects mix hardware to hit target performance at lower cost per training run.

Amazon Names New AI Chief Amid Battle to Take on Tech Rivals

Amazon.com Inc. is reorganizing teams working on artificial intelligence projects, putting a top leader from the company’s cloud division in charge of a new unit.

Prime Video’s AI recap feature messed up so badly that Amazon removed it

Prime Video’s experiment with AI generated episode recaps backfired when the system produced wildly incorrect summaries for Fallout. After the backlash, Amazon removed the feature entirely, raising questions whether AI is ready for handling story driven content.