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Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic capabilities” and turn a profit from the popular devices.

Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial ...

Matching commands to actions can be done locally (on the device itself), or sound recordings can be uploaded to the cloud for processing. On-device processing has improved substantially in recent ...

Amazon is eliminating a setting on Echo devices that lets you store voice recordings locally rather than on cloud servers.

Alexa users also have a setting called “Don’t save recordings”, which, if enabled, deletes cloud recordings once they’re ...

CNET reported a few weeks ago that Amazon is preparing to remove a key privacy setting in its smart home devices. Today it ...

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