How to get early access to Alexa+ (and which Amazon Echo devices will support it)

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Amazon announced a generative AI-powered Alexa+ in February. It's a revamped version of Amazon's popular virtual assistant that leverages the power of generative artificial intelligence to enhance the user experience. Alexa+ is exactly what you may have envisioned when you first heard of voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google, but without the accompanying disappointment at their shortcomings. Also: Everything you need to know about Alexa+, Amazon's new generative AI assistant The improved voice assistant will be able to generate responses instead of repeating what it's been programmed to say. With generative AI, Alexa+ will also hold more natural conversations with users rather than only listening to a prompt and responding with action. The new voice assistant will support memory to recall preferences and conversations. Alexa+ will also maintain context throughout a conversation, so it will remember what you asked at the beginning of a chat and respond in tha ... Read full article.