If you ask Alexa if she's down, she might not answer. Because right now, Alexa is down for many. According to Downdetector, there were nearly 300 reports of issues with Amazon Alexa as of Monday ...

Having Alexa work off of an LLM is just not going to be particularly reliable anytime soon and is ripe with risk for consumer harm in various ways. Another massive problem that LLMs are facing for ...

Amazon had been planning to roll out a new Alexa powered by generative AI in October 2024, but that obviously didn't happen. According to reports that came out back then, the company pushed back its ...