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Alexa

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503 articles accelerating

Alexa has appeared in 503 articles since 2015-06. Coverage peaked in 2025Q1 with 10 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Amazon, Google, Echo, TechCrunch.

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503
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Velocity
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Acceleration
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Sources
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Coverage Timeline

2023-10-09
Washington Post 10 related

Alexa has been claiming that the US 2020 presidential election was stolen, citing unvetted Rumble and Substack sources; Amazon says the errors have been fixed

2023-10-08
Washington Post 4 related

Amazon's Alexa has been claiming that the 2020 election was stolen citing sources from Rumble and Substack; Amazon says the errors were fixed

The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source — foreshadowing a new information battleground

2023-10-07
Washington Post

Amazon's Alexa has been claiming that the 2020 election was stolen citing sources from Rumble and Substack; Amazon says the errors were fixed

The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source — foreshadowing a new information battleground X: @emzorbi...

2023-06-11
New York Times

While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums

While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons. Mastodon: @BenPatrickWill@mastodon … . Tweets: @m...

2023-02-26
Margins

How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious claims, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital

Sometimes innovation just ain't enough … I have four Echo devices in my household.  For years, we used them to control the lights in our apartment … Tweets: @lutherlowe , @ranjanxroy , @can , @mparekh...

2022-09-02
BuzzFeed News 1 related

Some musicians with songs about “poop” say Amazon Music has become their biggest source of revenue, likely due to kids yelling the word at Alexa-enabled devices

Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News :

2021-12-28
BBC 10 related

Amazon says it has updated Alexa after the assistant “challenged” a girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug

Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.

2021-12-10
Financial Times

How Syrian human rights group Mnemonic used AI trained on synthetic data to analyze videos for evidence that “cluster” weapon RBK-250 was used against civilians

Technique used to teach Tesla cars and Amazon Alexa has gathered evidence of weapons used against civilians Tweets: @financialtimes , @sylviakangara , @samjoiner , and @madhumita29 Tweets: @financialt...

2021-11-20
Reuters 2 related

Internal documents describe how Amazon's lobbying helped it kill or undermine privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 US states

has been the primary opponent to our efforts to pass good privacy laws. The fact that they privately gloat about killing the IL geolocation bill says everything about who Amazon really is. https://www...

2021-08-20
The Atlantic

How Amazon contributed to the drop in the number of babies named Alexa in the US, UK, and Canada, after an initial surge upon the device's 2014 release

Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic : Tweets: @anthroptimist , @mgsiegler , @afteralexa , @hashtagheyalexa , @alexahumanbeing , @malcolmmoore , and @marshacollier Tweets: Dr Alexa Hagerty / @anthroptimist : I...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Alexa has appeared in 585 Techmeme articles since June 2015, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up... and Everything Amazon announced at its product event: Alexa Emergency Assist for $6/month,.... Frequently covered alongside Amazon, Google, Echo, TechCrunch, and Sarah Perez. Coverage has shifted toward consumer themes and away from developer.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +17pts; developer +33pts; consumer +17pts
2024Q3developer -33pts; consumer -52pts; funding +14pts
2024Q4enterprise -14pts; consumer +11pts; funding +11pts

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