Interest rate cuts might have been on the mind of the Wall St. analysts gathered for the Bank of America third-quarter earnings call today (Oct. 15), but digital transformation and healthy consumer spending turned out to be the stars of the show. As Bank of...
Amazon is turning to Anthropic’s artificial intelligence (AI) model Claude to power the revamped version of its voice assistant, Alexa, according to sources familiar with the matter. The new version of Alexa, called “Remarkable,” is set to be released in October and will utilize generative...
Amazon’s is planning an artificial intelligence (AI) overhaul for Alexa. Set to launch in October, the upgrade will reportedly transform the free voice assistant into a paid subscription service, according to the Washington Post, potentially reshaping the eCommerce giant’s customer engagement strategy. This move comes...
Consumers may be beginning to use voice artificial intelligence (AI) assistants for online shopping, but they would like to keep this technology out of brick-and-mortar stores, PYMNTS Intelligence research reveals. By the Numbers The new PYMNTS Intelligence special report “Generation Zillennial: Voice Assistants and GenAI”...
October 15, 2024
Interest rate cuts might have been on the mind of the Wall St. analysts gathered for the Bank of America third-quarter earnings call today (Oct. 15), but digital transformation and healthy consumer spending turned out to be the stars of the show. As Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan told the call’s audience, he sees […]
August 28, 2024
Amazon’s is planning an artificial intelligence (AI) overhaul for Alexa. Set to launch in October, the upgrade will reportedly transform the free voice assistant into a paid subscription service, according...
January 10, 2024
CES 2024 is shaping up to be a watershed event for artificial intelligence (AI) and the connected economy. After the pre-show hype focused on robotics and the connected home, the...
November 20, 2023
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are increasingly integrating voice artificial intelligence (AI) into the ordering process, but PYMNTS Intelligence shows most consumers believe it will be a long time before the technology...
November 22, 2024
Apple reportedly is working to make its Siri voice assistant more conversational with the addition of more advanced large language models (LLMs). The company plans to enable a new version of Siri to carry on back-and-forth conversations, handle more complex tasks and do so more quickly, Bloomberg reported Friday (Nov. 22), citing unnamed sources. Working […]
August 30, 2024
Amazon is turning to Anthropic’s artificial intelligence (AI) model Claude to power the revamped version of its voice assistant, Alexa, according to sources familiar with the matter. The new version...
July 23, 2024
Amazon reportedly plans to launch a paid tier of Alexa as soon as this month. The paid tier will offer a version of the voice assistant that has been dubbed...
May 05, 2024
What if Apple’s voice assistant Siri “was really, really, really good?” That question is at the heart of much of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) research, according to a report...
