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OpenAI filed a trademark application for a "voice engine."
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The Amazon Echo Buds are among the cheapest earbuds you can get with hands-free Alexa support.
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The Echo Show 5 is the smallest Alexa smart display you can buy.
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Amazon abandoned its $1.4 billion acquisition of Roomba maker, iRobot, on Monday after regulators in the European Union threatened to block the deal.

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Apple has been relatively absent from last year’s AI hype cycle, and Microsoft even briefly surpassed it as the

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Big Tech’s trend of the week is the incessant talk about AI subscriptions. Silicon Valley cannot stop throwing money into AI, but they’re a bit stuck figuring out how AI will throw money back at them. Now, Big Tech thinks it found a solution: they’re betting you will pay a monthly subscription for their AI service.…

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Tech is having a moment where everyone is wondering if it’s all that great. AI is the hot trend right now, but Big Tech wants you to pay for something that hasn’t really been shown to make your life easier.

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Laura Labovich, background, and her children Asher, right, 13, and Emerson, left, 10, with an Alexa speaker in Bethesda, MD.
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More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon’s standards, the service is a total failure.