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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Fallout’s new season two trailer brings the war to New Vegas.

Lucy and the Ghoul have started warming up to each other in the new trailer season two of Amazon’s Fallout series. And the duo’s hunt for Lucy’s father, Hank has them trekking to a very bleak and mutant-filled New Vegas.

5 things I love about Amazon’s new Echo Shows — and 3 things I don’t

Amazon’s Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 launch this week, here are my first impressions

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Amazon Music is testing out Fan Groups.

The new feature is coming first to Canada, allowing users to connect and share music with like-minded fans across genres like rock, country, and K-pop. In Fan Groups, users can join or create chat threads, as well as save recommendations from others.

Amazon Music plans on bringing Fan Groups to the US and other countries next year.

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Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
BMW’s voice assistant is getting an Alexa Plus upgrade — eventually.

We’ve been waiting for BMW’s next-gen voice assistant for a while now. The custom Alexa voice assistant for was initially announced in 2022, but progress has been slow in an attempt to build it around Amazon’s more capable LLM-powered Alexa Plus. Now BMW and Amazon say that customers will be able to experience it “soon.” How soon? We don’t know! Which models? Unclear!

The custom Alexa assistant will ‘enables ‘natural, conversational experiences in BMW vehicles,’ Amazon says.
The custom Alexa assistant will ‘enables ‘natural, conversational experiences in BMW vehicles,’ Amazon says.
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Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Couldn’t have happened to nicer guys.

Friend of The Verge Casey Newton has some thoughts on the Amazon v. Perplexity web browser battle about AI agents: Perplexity wants to encourage people to use their agents in order to build its own business, but this screws basically every business that runs on web pages, including Amazon. (Humans can look at ads, sign up for newsletters, engage in curiosity-oriented browsing, etc.) Perplexity is a known bad actor. I hope Jeff Bezos eats them alive.

The AI industry is running on FOMO

At least according to Big Tech’s latest earnings calls.

Hayden Field