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Even with the full rollout of Amazon's Alexa+ and Google's Gemini for Home, it feels like we're still shouting into the void. Reading time 3 minutes After about a decade in the making, new voice ...

Amazon is making its AI-upgraded Alexa+ assistant available to everyone in the U.S. Alexa+ launched last year in an "early access" preview, meaning consumers had to join a waitlist or buy a new device ...

Update, 2:09 p.m. ET: Speechify also launched a ChatGPT integration today. See new details below. Speechify’s AI Voice Assistant can now sound like celebrities, including Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow, ...

Google will pay $68 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging its voice assistant secretly recorded users’ private conversations and shared the data with advertisers. Filed on Friday in a ...

Just Eat has launched an AI-powered ‘delivery concierge’ service, which enables customers to voice order and be given personalised recommendations. The new technology will be integrated into the ...

Alphabet's (GOOG) (GOOGL) unit Google agreed to pay $68M to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice-activated assistant spied on smartphone users, violating their privacy, Reuters reported. A ...

What just happened? Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing its voice assistant of unlawfully recording private conversations and sharing them in ways that may ...

Google to Pay $68 Million to Settle Voice Assistant Snooping Claims The lawsuit dates back to 2021 and stems from a 2019 news story from Belgium's VRT NWS that said the Google Assistant was recording ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleges its voice assistant violated users’ privacy. Google denied any wrongdoing but agreed to settle to avoid the cost and ...

Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement regarding claims that its voice assistant inappropriately spied on smartphone users. Plaintiffs claimed that the company’s Google Assistant platform began ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users and then shared their private conversations with ...