Fast talker: Alexa may offer speedier answers with Amazon-made AI chips

Amazon wants to cut the lag time between your asking Alexa a question and the virtual assistant giving you an answer. According to a report by The Information, the online retailer is developing its own artificial intelligence chips to be used in Echo devices and other hardware. If successfully created and deployed, these AI chips […]

Amazon-made meal kits could come to your doorstep soon

Enlarge / Amazon’s first public grocery store, now open in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard. But you can’t go inside. Pickup only. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Amazon’s grocery ambitions were clear long before the Internet giant bought Whole Foods last month, and the company is moving ahead with those ambitions after purchasing the grocery chain. According to a […]