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Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
- ▶ 6:31 Alex Kantrowitz Can't you do that on like a smart speaker like Alexa?
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 27:53 M.G. Siegler And certainly as, as, uh, you know, as the big players, the big tech players are all, um, you know, doing this right now, we're not going to be able to, do you really believe that we're going to be able to do Amazon purchasing through…
- ▶ 30:09 M.G. Siegler If, if you say like, I don't want Alexa to have access to this, therefore, you know, like, um, Amazon might say, okay, then you can't be a part of Amazon shopping. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
- ▶ 20:09 Ranjan Roy Alexa plus, I guess, or Amazon's internal, or Rufus actually, Amazon's doing interesting stuff specific to their own business, not really in like a consumer sales standpoint.
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 14:44 Alex Kantrowitz It's been discussed with, um, you know, Alexa back in the day. 3 times in the scene
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 29:50 M.G. Siegler Because much like Amazon, as you brought up with, with sort of, you know, their own work and Alexa and whatnot on AI dating back to the Siri days, the earlier Siri days to it, they've had a hell of a time. 3 times in the scene
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 15:14 Ranjan Roy Well, to sell it, so to, to subsidize your AWS with cashflow and keep investing in Alexa plus and AWS and whatever else.
Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
- ▶ 48:21 M.G. Siegler Like, look how long it took them to, to rework Alexa, to be able to 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:47 M.G. Siegler And obviously that's harder with an Amazon because as you noted, they make their own product in, in Alexa, but 3 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
- ▶ 41:25 Ranjan Roy Like, Amazon really just stuffed Alexa wherever it could find and, like, I mean, once they put made the Alexa wall clock, it was all over. 7 times in the scene
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
- ▶ 24:59 Alex Kantrowitz We've heard presentations about Alexa plus and Apple intelligence and the meta, all the different buddies you can have in the meta properties, uh, Google obviously with Gemini, but even though they have all this data, uh, we still don't…
AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- ▶ 28:36 Alex Kantrowitz Alexa plus is doing okay, like we talked about, but AWS isn't, uh, isn't killing the world.
- ▶ 40:53 M.G. Siegler So they've got all sorts of weird branding issues, but, uh, Amazon would say, obviously it's Alexa and, and they are having starting, it sounds like to have, you know, some levels of success with Alexa plus, but in some ways they were held… 2 times in the scene
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
- ▶ 9:39 Jim Cramer Did you do the new Alexa? 3 times in the scene
Capital One's Prem Natarajan: Why We're Building Our AI From The Ground Up
- ▶ 0:27 Alex Kantrowitz You were really there on the ground up when, uh, Amazon built Alexa, and we'll come back to that in a bit, but you've really seen how companies build AI strategies effectively, and you are running the AI effort at Capital One.
- ▶ 36:20 Alex Kantrowitz So you were on the ground, like I mentioned in the, in our opening, uh, with Amazon Alexa, uh, the very beginning there. 2 times in the scene
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 16:09 Alex Kantrowitz Um, Alexa, I'll ask it for the time.
- ▶ 24:28 Alex Kantrowitz Alexa plus is going to roll out to everyone. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:18 Ranjan Roy Alexa is your companion, but, uh, I think. 2 times in the scene
Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
- ▶ 1:47 Panos Panay You think about Alexa, we're rolling it out slowly for, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:27 Alex Kantrowitz The, uh, the Alexa customer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:31 Panos Panay Your example, I wasn't there for the transition and, um, but I will say, let's just use Alexa as an example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:48 Panos Panay I just share it with Alexa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:26 Panos Panay okay, maybe it takes a millisecond too long or, um, your deep fryer doesn't work the way you thought it would with Alexa, the way it did six months ago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:26 Panos Panay That's not Alexa comment, but it's just in general, like it's just moving fast. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:43 Panos Panay It needs all, it needs all of it, and the more you give it, the stronger that, um, kind of foundational outcome of having a great assistant becomes, and because Alexa is that, because we believe it's the world's best personal assistant, I…
- ▶ 37:36 Panos Panay You get back home, you ask Alexa, you know, how much, how many steps did I have today? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:22 Alex Kantrowitz The thought was Amazon in some ways would throw spaghetti at the wall, that there was an Alexa microwave and an Alexa alarm clock, everything with Alexa in it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:24 Alex Kantrowitz So last time you were here, I asked with, uh, I ended with a question of whether I should get an Alexa with, uh, an echo with a screen. 2 times in the scene
Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
- ▶ 14:42 Ranjan Roy My son with Alexa, pre Alexa plus, which we've talked about over the last few weeks, but in the old school, just play me a song.
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 47:36 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but like I set up Alexa plus recently 3 times in the scene
OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- ▶ 27:06 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon has the compute for Alexa, so does Google.
- ▶ 34:45 M.G. Siegler Um, I, I feel like this is, and, and I'm somewhat biased cause I've like a long written about this dating back a decade where I thought that there, there would be like, you know, these vocal computing devices, not just Alexa, but like,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:52 M.G. Siegler Now you could say Alexa, I gotta trigger it again, is sort of like that, um, in a way.
OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
- ▶ 43:28 Ranjan Roy Alexa. 2 times in the scene
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 10:12 M.G. Siegler They have to sort of, if not completely start over from scratch, at least sort of look at everything from, you know, starting over from scratch standpoint and think, you know, much like Amazon, it seems like had to do perhaps with Alexa…
- ▶ 12:34 M.G. Siegler So there was Siri, there was Alexa and Google had, um, you know, the Google assistant and Google home products too, which sort of everyone sort of, you know, talks past now, but that was also, you know, a multimillion million unit, um,… 3 times in the scene
Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
- ▶ 8:31 Alex Kantrowitz And I'm just reminded that we haven't seen Alexa plus roll out broadly yet, even after the February event where this thing was demoed and was supposed to be coming soon. 2 times in the scene
Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
- ▶ 18:21 Jamil Ghani Um, the, in my own words, the way I describe Alexa Plus, it's a, it's a, it's the new version of Alexa, which, um, is much more conversational, much more, uh, intelligent, um, and it's more action-oriented. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:51 Alex Kantrowitz You know, it's interesting, Jamil, because when you talk that you told me that your daughters were talking to Alexa Plus, I was like, oh, um, maybe this version, this newer version of Alexa is going to be something like a companion, a… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:39 Jamil Ghani Uh, having used it now since, uh, late last year, um, it, it is a step change experience from Alexa. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:43 Jamil Ghani The straight subscription for those that are not Prime members, um, we just kind of benchmarked on the value that we, uh, believe we are, um, we're offering, uh, and the, um, kind of market rate for, for, uh, assistance of that type,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:34 Alex Kantrowitz And I definitely recommend people, uh, check out the interview I did with, uh, Panos Pene a couple weeks ago, and Daniel Rauch was there too, the head of Alexa.
Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
- ▶ 8:29 Ranjan Roy But, maybe people will be more polite with Alexa. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
- ▶ 52:19 Ranjan Roy As we talked about a few weeks ago, I might get rid of all my home pods and move back to Alexa.
Zendesk CEO: AI Customer Service Agents Are Ready For Primetime
- ▶ 10:27 Tom Eggemeier I hope so too, Alex, and again, I think it's gonna be cool with, uh, stuff like Alexa, and I'm worried I have Alexa right next to me that it's gonna turn on here, but Alexa talking to, uh, an AI agent that's, you know, powered by Zendesk,… 3 times in the scene
Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- ▶ 8:01 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, I'll just tell you, I was, uh, speaking with some Apple watchers after that, uh, Alexa, oh shoot, I said a plus reveal, and they were just completely shaking their heads being like, you know, why, why can't they do that? 2 times in the scene
How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
- ▶ 2:59 Alex Kantrowitz Because I think that like for all of us who've, you know, I think there's a 500 or six hundred million, uh, Alexa enabled devices out there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:10 Alex Kantrowitz And I want to go a level deeper with Daniel on this one, because what you're talking about, a re-architecture is sort of what I've heard has been the holdup here with Alexa for all these years, which is that, and Daniel, tell me if I'm… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:54 Alex Kantrowitz But on, on that note, I mean, are the, is the new Alexa, is there going to be some sacrifice to having those Alexa commands, those standard turn the lights on, set the alarm, um, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:57 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, so, so are we gonna have a speed trade-off here from the traditional Alexa tasks? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:09 Alex Kantrowitz So I'm curious if, if you both see the competitive landscape in the same way I do, if there's something different about Alexa than the others, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:06 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, I was with, uh, speaking with Jamil Ghani, the head of Prime at your event yesterday, and he was talking about how about the family calendar is on his Alexa device, and it is a Google calendar. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:47 Alex Kantrowitz So, um, one, one of our listeners said, uh, is it gonna, is Alexa still gonna be reactive to requests or can it be proactive and suggest at the start of the day, uh, some smart ideas based on the context that Amazon has? 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:45 Alex Kantrowitz I, I could go with some other Alexa product feedback, but I feel let's, let's use our time. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:45 Alex Kantrowitz Does Alexa need to have a screen? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:36 Daniel Rausch It's challenging us to get more and more human, more natural, and that's why it's always been one of the kind of centerpieces of our vision for Alexa. 3 times in the scene
Neuralink's First Patient Controls Computers With His Mind — With Noland Arbaugh
- ▶ 41:16 Noland Arbaugh I constantly tell people, like, you think things, um, like online are Alexa compatible, like, you know, I have a Alexa compatible fan. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
- ▶ 28:50 Ranjan Roy Is Amazon, there was a report last week, I think, that the attempts to integrate their LLMs into Alexa have been taking longer than expected because of latency, and I think latency is going to be a huge topic in this because Jeff Bezos'…
Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
- ▶ 41:29 Andrew Bosworth Tremendously popular product, small market, but tremendously popular product, and we had our assistant on that, and we had an Alexa assistant as well.
iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
- ▶ 10:38 Ranjan Roy But the Amazon Echo and Alexa have been far, far, far superior for years.
Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
- ▶ 46:54 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Amazon AI guy got to ask about Alexa. 15 times in the scene
AWS VP of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian — GenAI's Growth Potential
- ▶ 30:57 Swami Sivasubramanian Let's just, ah, look at even, ah, where Alexa, for instance, ah, it runs in a deep learning model on the device. 2 times in the scene
Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 52:42 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, they also have Alexa, which is like, you know, a sleeping giant.
AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 10:45 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon has five hundred million Alexa connected devices, uh, in homes across the world. 2 times in the scene
Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 3:11 Sridhar Ramaswamy Uh, remember this was the time of, uh, um, Alexa, uh, and all the devices that Amazon was rolling out. 3 times in the scene
Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
- ▶ 11:47 Alex Kantrowitz So I have a note here, and it's just like, man, you guys did Alexa first, so why didn't you end up
- ▶ 18:55 Matt Wood I'm just, I think you can expect for sure to see new invention and innovation coming from Alexa and devices and our retail stores and our ads business.
- ▶ 33:35 Alex Kantrowitz But even the Alexa example shows that, like, there was all of us, there originally was this whole range of things we wanted to do, and then the tasks narrowed.
Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
- ▶ 10:59 Gary Marcus And, and the answer, you know, Alexa, like, just shut down a lot of their operation. 2 times in the scene
How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 7:30 Alex Kantrowitz It is a hardware manufacturer with the Kindle and the echo, you know, voice computing with Alexa.
Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 11:00 Gary Marcus Um, and in that sense, Alexa essentially, like there are, you know, it's ridiculous, right?