In this episode we break down the news from Amazon's Alexa Event on February 26th 2025. And a closer look at the documentation after the event revealed a lot of hidden nuggets.

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In this episode we cover the three core advances AI should bring to Alexa; namely better processing of our speech, improved natural responses, and agentic capabilities.

In this episode we review a recent press release about an event dealing with devices for the Amazon Echo line-up, here late in February.

# Attributions

DTNS Briefing 4950

https://dailytechnewsshow.com/2025/02/05/why-dtns-doesnt-cover-the-doge-dtnsb-4950/DTNS- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

PC World

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2599695/is-the-new-ai-powered-alexa-almost-here-6-things-to-know.html

Thurrott.com -Panos Panay ⁠

https://www.thurrott.com/microsoft/289310/panos

In this episode, we take a look at hand gestures that can control your Amazon Echo, and we take a look at how Conversation Mode has been adjusted and integrated into Follow-Up Mode. Both of which use a scan of your face to figure out whether you're looking at the Amazon Echo to help aid it in conversations.

We take a look at Themes on the Amazon Echo and think about what the future might hold if this feature got a little more TLC!

We take a look back to privacy options and controls highlighted in episode 181 and 183.

We take a look at a recent Financial Times Article and DTNS's take on Alexa's AI future. We also compare these to our AI Beta tests last year with Alexa's AI Beta.

# References

Echo Tips 297

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-297-alexa-ai-omnibus-catch-up-on-all-you-missed/id1396874548?i=1000654216801

Financial Times

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/amazon-must-solve-hallucination-problem-before-launching-ai-enabled-alexa/

# Attributions

Daily Tech News Show Breifing Episode 4935

https://shows.acast.com/dtns/episodes/hope-remains-for-tiktok-in-us-dtns-3935

Daily Tech News Show Creative Commons

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We take a look at recent Google Announcements made at CES 2025, about home automation and smart home devices using the Matter standard.

Show Notes Daily Tech News Show Episode 4931

https://dailytechnewsshow.com/2025/01/08/are-you-compliant-do-you-matter-dtns-live-4931/ Daily Tech News Show Creative Commons ⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/⁠

The Verge Article

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/8/24338969/google-home-hubs-local-control-matter