During an investors call yesterday, as reported by TechCrunch, Andy Jassy noted that Alexa+ started rolling out as early ...

The new AI-enhanced Alexa is still in an early preview period, but already there’s talk of adding ads and even new ...

In the week’s least surprising news, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed that the company is exploring ways to bring ads to Alexa ...

Amazon has announced that it will soon start showing ads inside conversations with Alexa+, its smart voice assistant. Amazon Places Ads to Alexa+ Talks This decision was shared during the company’s ...

Amazon could soon insert advertisements into conversations with Alexa+, the company's AI-powered voice assistant. The ...

Alexa users are suing Amazon over claims that the voice assistant app is targeting users with ads relevant to private recordings of users’ conversations. The central complaint.

Amazon does use interactions to serve ads, though. For example, asking Alexa for recipe ideas might get you a targeted ad for pots and pans. The clear winner for privacy lovers is Siri.

A new Alexa feature has been announced at the Amazon Accelerate conference called “Customers Ask Alexa,” which allows brands to submit their own answers to questions you may ask the device.

Is that desirable? For sellers, maybe. For Alexa users … probably not. I, for one, don’t want to be bombarded with ads every time a random question about a household chore comes up.

“Alexa, make Amazon more money.”…Amazon also has a consumer-facing blog that showcases Alexa's newest features, but a website can't force information onto people the same way a pop-up ad can ...