Reuters interviewed, Amazon's Alexa AI had problems in development. The result, Amazon plans to move forward with the Alexa revamp this October, by using Anthropic's Claude AI. In this episode we highlight a YouTuber who demonstrates talking to Claude, and we speculate on the implications of these rumors.

Chris's YouTube Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVab674FGLI

Reuters' Article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVab674FGLI

New Vision's September Newsletter

https://campaignlp.constantcontact.com/em/1102549354893/403a5d8c-dc4b-47cf-9e48-3c442066aa4c.

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