Scoop: Amazon eyes news partners for revamped AI Alexa voice assistant
Briefly

"The company plans to debut a new, smarter version of Alexa, using generative AI to power customized responses to real-time user queries about the news."
"It's currently testing new ways to incorporate news answers into Alexa via text and photo query results, aiming to provide customized, accurate real-time news responses."
"Publishers will be compensated for their content via a licensing agreement, and answers to users' news queries will be attributed to Amazon's publishing partners."
"The AI era is proving lucrative for media publishers looking to offset a slowdown in ads and subscription fatigue, making collaborations with tech giants essential."
Read at Axios
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