From TechCrunch · Ivan Mehta · · 1m
Amazon adds 100 shopping features to Alexa
Amazon has expanded Alexa with over 100 new capabilities to manage lists, subscriptions and deliveries ahead of the holiday season.
In brief
Amazon has expanded Alexa with over 100 new capabilities to manage lists, subscriptions and deliveries ahead of the holiday season. Amazon added over 100 shopping features to Alexa including list management, subscription changes and delivery updates as agentic AI usage grows. Originally reported by TechCrunch.
Amazon expands Alexa for holiday shopping
Ahead of the holiday season, Amazon has added more than one hundred new shopping-related capabilities to Alexa, including managing subscriptions and lists, updating delivery instructions, solving payment issues, and answering questions about Prime subscriptions.
What Alexa can now do
Users can create and manage shopping lists, change subscription delivery schedules, edit delivery instructions like addresses or drop-off details, and ask Alexa about Prime or Audible subscriptions and billing issues.
Agentic AI usage surges at Amazon
Since the start of the year, the number of people using agentic features has grown eight times. Over the last twelve months, over four hundred million consumers have used Alexa for shopping.
In short
Amazon added over 100 shopping features to Alexa including list management, subscription changes and delivery updates as agentic AI usage grows.
