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Amazon reportedly bumped back its AI-powered Alexa to next year


Alexa's next incarnation isn't working as well as Amazon executives hoped it would be by now.

The new Alexa is designed to understand more complicated questions from users but it’s also more likely to fail doing some of the most basic things the old version could do quite easily like create a timer or operate smart lights, according to a follow up report from The Verge. The original timeline planned to premiere the next evolutionary step in Alexa’s advancement on October 17 but Amazon decided to pivot and used the date to show off its new line of Kindle ereaders. Amazon Prime members can claim a ton of PC games at no extra cost in November, including Dishonored, Guardians of the Galaxy, a Mafia remake, Super Meat Boy and Overcooked.

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