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February 6, 2025 1:07 PM

Amazon set to release long-delayed Alexa generative AI revamp

Amazon is set to release its long-awaited - and delayed - Alexa generative artificial intelligence voice service, said three people familiar with the matter, and has scheduled a press event for later this month to preview it. Once released, it would...

November 28, 2024 1:30 PM

Microsoft faces wide-ranging US antitrust probe

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The probe was approved by FTC Chair...

October 7, 2024 3:14 PM

Global river flows hit all-time lows in 2023, UN says

River flows around the world fell to all-time lows last year amid record heat, endangering water supplies in an era of growing demand, a U.N. weather agency report showed on Monday. Prolonged droughts cut river flows in large parts of North, Central...

September 14, 2024 5:54 PM

Samsung, Xiaomi colluded with Amazon, Flipkart: CCI report

Samsung, Xiaomi and other smartphone companies colluded with Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart to exclusively launch products on the e-commerce firms' Indian websites in breach of antitrust laws, according to the Reuters news agency. Antitrust investiga...

September 14, 2024 2:52 PM

CCI probe finds Amazon, Walmart’s Flipkart breached antitrust laws

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) investigation has found U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart violated local competition laws by giving preference to select sellers on their shopping websites, Reuters reported. CCI in 2020 or...

September 6, 2024 12:25 PM

US calls on Big Tech to help evade online censors in Russia, Iran

The White House convened a meeting with representatives of Amazon.com, Alphabet's Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare and civil society activists on Thursday in a bid to encourage U.S. tech giants to offer more digital bandwidth for government-funded inter...

August 30, 2024 7:03 PM

Amazon turns to Anthropic’s Claude for Alexa AI revamp

Amazon's revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Amazon pla...

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