An Amazon device is displayed at an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City on Feb. 26, 2025.
Amazon is hosting a launch event on Tuesday where it's expected to unveil significant updates to its devices lineup.
The event is slated to kick off at 10 a.m. ET and will feature announcements from Panos Panay, who oversees Amazon's sprawling devices and services business.
Invites sent to the media and analysts earlier this month showed what appeared to be an Echo smart speaker, Fire TV, Ring doorbell button and a Kindle e-reader, suggesting what could be in store at the event.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in a Bloomberg TV interview earlier this year that a "brand new lineup of devices" compatible with Alexa+ would be coming this fall.
Reviews for the company's upgraded assistant, which is powered by generative artificial intelligence, have been mixed.
Ohio resident and IT manager Jeff Finlay, 61, got access to Alexa+ in late June after applying to the beta program in March. Finlay, who has seven Echo devices in his home, said he feels Alexa+ has "worsened some of the functions I was used to using it for."
He said Alexa+'s weather forecasts don't seem to be as informative as previous iterations offered through the original Alexa assistant, called Big Sky.
Wired wrote in July that the new Alexa seems to be a more skilled and natural conversationalist, which "is a relief after years of Alexa's robotic tones." But TechCrunch noted in August that the service was prone to making mistakes and stumbled on some requests, making it seem "very much like a beta product."