Amazon and Apple are struggling to put generative AI technology in their digital assistants — Alexa and Siri, respectively — according to a pair of reports that came out on Friday.
Amazon hoped to release its new Alexa during an event in New York on February 26. Now Amazon plans to delay the release of its generative AI-powered Alexa until March or later, according to the Washington Post.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that Apple’s AI overhaul of Siri is running into engineering problems and software bugs. Some new features around Siri that were planned for release in April may not be ready until May or later.
Amazon and Apple hoped to release these updated products quickly to compete with next-gen AI voice assistants, such as OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode and Google’s Gemini Live. However, those efforts are not going according to plan.
Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has...
Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads
In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s “open” AI model family, Llama,...
Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American made batteries
The electric vehicle transition is really a story about China. There, subsidies have helped juice not just automakers, but the...
TurinTech reveals $20M in backing to fix problems in ‘vibe coding’
So-called “vibe coding” with LLM-driven tools like Cursor Composer — a term coined by renowned computer scientist Andrej Karpathy —...
