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By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN New York (CNN) — Alexa+, Amazon’s revamped version of Alexa was unveiled Wednesday, bringing the popular voice assistant into the artificial intelligence era. The new Alexa is more conversational, can incorporate a user’s personal preferences into answers, and can handle certain tasks on someone’s behalf, like booking concert tickets, Amazon says.

By Lianne Kolirin and Esha Mitra, CNN (CNN) — An Indian man has been awarded damages in a legal case against the country’s biggest movie theater chain after he complained that it showed too many commercials before a movie. Abhishek M R, a 31-year-old lawyer from the southern city of Bangalore, decided to take action

By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Wednesday announced a “significant shift” to the publisher’s opinion page that led David Shipley, the paper’s editorial page editor, to leave the paper. The changes upended precedent and rattled a media company that has already been shaken by years of turmoil and leadership

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Apple says it’s fixing a technical bug that caused its voice-to-text system to briefly replace the word “racist” with the word “Trump.” Some iPhone users had reported on Tuesday that when they spoke the word “racist” using Apple’s voice dictation feature, the system automatically typed in “Trump”

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Florida has been blasted with stronger hurricanes than ever before. A prolific disease carried by insects continues to devastate orange groves. And, on top of all that, consumers are watching their sugar intake. It’s adding up to a disaster for Tropicana orange juice. Tropicana, founded in 1947

By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson decided to co-author a book about what had led the Democratic party to defeat, with a focus on former President Joe Biden. The deeply sourced reporters found what they call a

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump is once again talking about privatizing the US Postal Service. It’s an idea that has employees and major users of the mail very nervous. The 250-year old service is an independent government organization that is older than the country itself. With billions in annual

By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — American consumers and businesses are feeling uneasy, fearing higher inflation is lurking around the corner as President Donald Trump talks massive tariffs. That’s raising questions on what America’s souring economic mood means for spending, hiring and the future of the world’s largest economy. “The kinds of changes that

By Wayne Chang, Will Ripley and Eric Cheung, CNN (CNN) — China’s DeepSeek shocked the world by delivering unexpected innovation at an unbelievable price. But this disruptive trend isn’t confined to Big Tech: It has been quietly happening in the pharmaceutical sector. In September, Akeso, a little-known Chinese biotech company founded nearly a decade ago

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk has lost $52 billion in net worth since the year began, but he’s still the richest person in the world by a long shot, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Shares of Musk’s Tesla dropped 8% before market close Tuesday after a steady decrease of

By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — The White House is stripping the White House Correspondents’ Association of its role in managing the White House Press Pool, taking control of deciding who will be a part of the small rotating group of journalists and photographers who accompany the president. The press pool includes rotating representatives from

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s plan to impose a 25% tariff on all imported aluminum could cost 100,000 American jobs, the CEO of one of the largest US aluminum makers warned on Tuesday. The new tariff rate, a 15 percentage point increase from prior levels that doesn’t permit any

By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Rumors that Lucasfilm’s longtime president may be leaving Disney have swirled for quite some time. But reports that Kathleen Kennedy will retire at the end of her contract may be jumping the gun. Puck reported Tuesday that Kennedy, who is 71, is expected to step down as president of

By Clare Duffy and Lisa Eadicicco, CNN New York (CNN) — Apple users in the United Kingdom will no longer have access to a key data security feature for iCloud storage: Advanced Data Protection. It’s a relatively small change, but privacy experts worry it could have ripple effects for data privacy around the world. The

By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — Investors entered the New Year cheerful about the prospects of a business- and crypto-friendly Trump administration. Yet two months into 2025, US stocks have lagged Europe and Chinese stocks, bitcoin is sliding and concerns about inflation are mounting. US stocks largely slid Tuesday as investors digested a

By Brian Stelter and Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Some of MSNBC’s biggest stars are – in extraordinary on-air fashion – rebuking management’s decision to cancel Joy Reid and Alex Wagner’s shows and lay off their production staffs. Rachel Maddow used part of her Monday night show — MSNBC’s most watched hour — to call

By David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — Jamie Dimon is apologizing for using some particularly salty language about work-from-home policies, after he tackled an increasingly combative issue for workers and employers across the United States. But he’s not backing down on requiring JPMorgan Chase employees to return to the office. The CEO of America’s largest bank

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Home Depot is growing again. America’s largest home improvement retailer said Tuesday that sales at stores open for at least a year grew 0.8% last quarter, snapping eight straight quarters of sales declines. Home Depot also sounded an upbeat forecast for 2025, saying sales at stores open