With full-screen ads on its smart displays, Alexa is becoming less like an assistant and more like a sales rep.

In recent weeks, Echo Show owners have started seeing full-screen sponsored placements intrude on Photo Frame mode slideshows ...

Amazon Echo Show owners report their smart displays being bombarded with ads. Here are two workarounds to get rid of those annoying ads.

Advertising is a small part of the experience, and it helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in. If customers don’t like a suggestion, they can swipe to skip to the ...

More people are using digital assistants like the Amazon Echo or Alexa. By one estimate, there are more than 110 million devices in this category in the U.S. Our interactions with those devices can ...

So if the folks at Amazon really believe Alexa-enabled tech should fade into the background, they may agree that when I’m in my kitchen slicing an apple for my kid and I glance up at my Echo Show ...

The Amazon Echo Show, hailed as a centerpiece of the smart home, promised a seamless, screen-based portal for managing various tasks.

Ironically, it moved far fewer Echo devices than Apple sold Watches at the same time. In the fourth quarter of 2016, all ...

In September of 2023, Amazon announced the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition. It looked just like the regular Echo Show 8 smart display/speaker but cost $10 more. Why? Because of its ability to show photos ...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sees an opportunity to deliver ads to users during their conversations with the company’s AI-powered digital assistant, Alexa+, he said during Amazon’s second-quarter earnings ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...