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Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

it really depends on how much you trust amazon on what it records as alexa is an always on(in terms of microphone) device.