To make a playlist with Alexa on your Amazon Echo device, you have the option to ask Alexa or create one using the Amazon ...

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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

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Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

I've witnessed firsthand the remarkable development of AI, having helped to create the technology that eventually became Amazon’s Alexa. Today, models can be extraordinary conversationalists, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...

Getting a job at McDonald’s just got a whole lot simpler. Using artificial intelligence, applicants to McDonald’s can now initiate an application as quickly as they can say, “OK, Google, help me get a ...

Generative AI has transformed user expectations and the competition has multiplied. Amazon, however, remains confident that Alexa remains uniquely positioned.