Amazon’s Alexa defends company honour while jabbing rivals


Amazon Echo and Echo Plus devices, behind, sit near illuminated Echo Button devices. The company appears to have enlisted its popular Alexa assistant in its effort to protect the company’s reputation. — AP

Ask Amazon.com Inc’s digital assistant, “Hey, Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?” and it will profess ignorance.

“Hmm, I don’t know that one,” it answers.

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