OpenAI introduces plugins for its Codex programming assistant

According to OpenAI, a future update will introduce the ability to equip plugins with other types of components besides MCP integrations and skills. Anthropic’s Claude Code enables developers to ...
eWeek

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Google’s AI Voice Assistant Gets a Major Real-Time Upgrade

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a real-time voice AI model with faster responses, natural dialogue, and built-in ...

Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop, sources say

Initiative known internally as Transformer aims to realize Bezos’s vision of a personalized, voice-driven computing assistant ...
SlashGear

5 Apple CarPlay Voice Commands You Need To Be Using

Apple CarPlay is quite useful for techie drivers who want to use their iPhones for navigation, entertainment, and other tasks while driving. But even though this car interface is designed to reduce ...
Inc

Burger King’s New AI Assistant Is Designed to Be Helpful, but Will Workers Beef About It?

After disrupting nearly every white-collar job, AI is coming for a new career: fast-food restaurant manager. Burger King is debuting a new AI assistant, and is putting a voice AI directly into its ...
Android

Google Home Adds Premade Voice Assistant Actions for Faster Routines

Google Home is adding premade voice assistant actions that simplify automation setup inside the app. Users can now quickly trigger tasks like weather updates or music. The update also adds an option ...
Droid Life

Google Home Gets New Premade Voice Assistant Actions

Google Home is getting a set of new premade voice assistant actions. Google calls them pre-defined actions, but the point is, you can skip a lot of the busywork that makes actions in automations a ...
Gizmodo

New Voice Assistants Are Officially a Whiff (for Now)

Even with the full rollout of Amazon's Alexa+ and Google's Gemini for Home, it feels like we're still shouting into the void. Reading time 3 minutes After about a decade in the making, new voice ...
CNBC

Amazon makes Alexa+ AI assistant available to everyone in the U.S. nearly a year after launch

Amazon is making its AI-upgraded Alexa+ assistant available to everyone in the U.S. Alexa+ launched last year in an "early access" preview, meaning consumers had to join a waitlist or buy a new device ...
MarketWatch

Speechify Expands to Voice AI Assistant, Voice Typing, AI Podcasts Platform, AI Note Taking, AI Meeting Assistant, and AI Workspace alongside Text to Speech Reader

NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Speechify today announced a major expansion of its platform into a full AI Assistant and productivity system designed for people who prefer to interact ...
TechRepublic

Amazon Expands Alexa+ AI Assistant to All US Users After Yearlong Rollout

Amazon Expands Alexa+ AI Assistant to All US Users After Yearlong Rollout Your email has been sent Amazon is making its generative AI-powered Alexa+ assistant available to everyone in the U.S., nearly ...
9to5Mac

Speechify adds celebrity voices to its AI Voice Assistant [U: ChatGPT integration]

Update, 2:09 p.m. ET: Speechify also launched a ChatGPT integration today. See new details below. Speechify’s AI Voice Assistant can now sound like celebrities, including Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow, ...