Thu. 06/23 – What If My Voice Was Your Alexa?

Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, betting on its $399 Microduck robot as a physical-AI data engine, Meta rolled out Muse Spark 1.3 to rival Fable 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and Microsoft restructured its reporting into two segments. Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12 ...  Show more

Anthropic shipped Claude Fable and Mythos 5.1 with a 75% cache-price cut, Google countered with Gemini 3.8 Flash, OpenAI teased Astra's public release, a judge spared Google's ad exchange from a sale, and the FBI probed a 153M-license leak. Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1, wh ...  Show more

Jefferson Graham has some fun with smart speakers, asking Alexa supplied questions to Google and Siri, and vice versa, on Talking Tech. Listen to what they get right, and wrong on the latest episode. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ...  Show more

Amazon's Alexa has come to the iPhone, in the Amazon app, offering spoken word personal assistance. Does Siri have much to worry about? Jefferson Graham finds out on #TalkingTech. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p ...  Show more

AI will fix everything, right? In this episode, friend of The Verge (and Waveform co-host) David Imel joins Nilay and David to talk all about Alexa Plus, and the AI-powered voice assistant Amazon thinks can do everything from turn on your lights to order your friend an Uber. The ...  Show more

Amazon's Alexa personal assistant is about to migrate to some 35 other tech products this year. This Echo and Dot speakers are sold out--why did Alexa seemingly win the voice computing war--so far? #TalkingTech listeners chime in to help answer the question. See Privacy Policy at ...  Show more