Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices

The Verge
By Emma RothJul 23, 2024, 11:02 am267 pts
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s plan to launch a paid version of Alexa is part of a strategy change to reverse the over $25 billion in losses that its devices business incurred from 2017 to 2021, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The AI-supercharged Alexa, which is rumored…

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