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Jess Weatherbed

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    Amazon and BMW’s AI voice assistant is... still coming.

    The custom Alexa voice assistant for BMW vehicles was initially announced in 2022, but progress has been slow in an attempt to build it around Amazon’s more capable LLM-powered Alexa.

    Amazon says its “LLM-powered capabilities” will start rolling out to select BMW models this year that allow users to “plan trips and navigate more conversationally.”

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Blink and you’ll miss these Zenbook Duo and ROG Zephyrus updates.

    Asus didn’t announce any huge changes for these beloved laptops at CES, with the new Zenbook Duo just being bumped to a series 2 Intel Core Ultra 9 processor.

    Meanwhile, the ROG Zephyrus G14 and Zephyrus G16 gaming laptops are being refreshed with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Intel Core Ultra 9 285H CPUs, respectively, alongside Nvidia 50-series graphics.

    The Asus Zenbook Duo 2025 model, positioned on a white desk.
    No treats this year for the dual-screen Zenbook Duo (pictured), just minor generational updates.
    Image: Asus
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