Amazon has decided to stop paying developers to build Alexa apps and giving them free AWS credits, shutting down the Alexa Developer Rewards Program and the AWS Promotional Credits for Alexa program ...

The Amazon GUI for creating Alexa intents and utterances is incredibly useful. It allows non-coders to create intents, utterances and slots, while coders can focus on creating the APIs that respond to ...

With more than 100 million Alexa devices sold so far, 10,000 Amazon employees work on the smart assistant’s development. Thousands of people focus on building Alexa’s knowledge base while others work ...

Amazon is joining other tech giants by lowering its cut of developer revenue generated by voice apps, known as Alexa skills, which run on Amazon’s smart speakers and other Alexa-powered devices. The ...

When it first launched in 2014, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant was little more than an experiment. It appeared first inside the Echo, itself a wacky gadget launched without warning or much expectation ...