文章核心观点 - 亚马逊正在考虑为Alexa语音助手推出付费订阅服务,收费5-10美元/月 [1] - 亚马逊正在大力推进Alexa的人工智能升级,包括整合生成式AI技术 [2][3] - 亚马逊一直未能从Alexa语音助手业务中获得利润,现正努力寻找新的盈利模式 [4][5] - 亚马逊最近裁员后,仍在加大对Alexa的投入,计划在8月前完成"卓越Alexa"计划 [6][7] 公司相关 - 亚马逊已经销售了约5亿台Alexa设备,但Alexa业务自2014年推出以来一直未盈利 [4] - 亚马逊正在推出付费订阅版Alexa,但不会包含在亚马逊Prime会员中 [7] - 亚马逊正在努力通过整合生成式AI等新技术来提升Alexa的功能和盈利能力 [2][3] 行业相关 - Alexa正面临来自ChatGPT等新兴生成式AI助手的竞争压力 [5] - 苹果也将在今年推出新版Siri,集成人工智能功能 [5]

Just about every company in tech has jumped on the artificial intelligence bandwagon by now, and Apple is no exception. What makes it a little different is how it plans to handle the data security and privacy issues that come with AI.At its annual WWDC event earlier this month, the company unveiled Apple Intelligence, its own flavor of AI, which Apple pledges will set a new standard for AI privacy and security. That's despite its plans to "seamlessly integrate" OpenAI's ChatGPT into its products and softwar ...

The US government, acting on a referral from the Federal Trade Commission, filed suit against Adobe on Monday for reportedly making its subscriptions confusing and costly to cancel. The suit alleges that Adobe, among other things, hides the existence of an early termination fee when users sign up for the annual subscription plan, revealing the fee only when a subscriber tries to cancel. Adobe's products include Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Reader and others."During enrollment, Adobe hides material terms ...

文章核心观点 - 美国电话电报公司（AT&T）将提高旧套餐价格，同时增加高速和热点数据量，行业内其他运营商也有类似提价行为 [1][3] 分组1：AT&T提价情况 - 从8月账单开始，单线路服务月费率提高10美元，多线路月费率提高20美元 [1] - 提价影响大多数旧无限套餐，如AT&T Unlimited & More Premium等 [1][2] 分组2：AT&T数据量增加情况 - Unlimited Choice、Choice II等计划将包含75GB高速数据和30GB热点数据 [2] - Unlimited Plus、Plus Enhanced等计划将包含100GB高速数据和60GB热点数据 [2] 分组3：行业提价情况 - T-Mobile上月提高多种旧套餐价格，AT&T今年早些时候将最新套餐费率提高99美分，去年夏天也对旧无限套餐提价 [3] - 威瑞森（Verizon）2月提高部分旧套餐价格，去年夏天也对部分旧无限套餐提价，去年还对其他旧套餐新增费用 [3] 分组4：AT&T套餐引导情况 - 公司引导用户从旧套餐转向新套餐，如新的Unlimited Premium PL、Unlimited Extra EL和Unlimited Starter SL [3]

Two years after it was unveiled and less than a year after it rolled out in the US, Apple's Pay Later feature is being shut down, according a report Monday from 9to5Mac. The Apple Pay feature allowed users to take out loans and pay for purchases from $50 to $1,000 in four installments. The service, offered in cooperation with Mastercard and Goldman Sachs would be replaced by a built-in feature in the upcoming iOS 18 that allows for third-party buy now, pay later loan companies such as Affirm to do the same, ...

Sometime soon, Apple may be hoping you do a double-take when you see an iPhone. That's because the company is reportedly planning thinner redesigns for its iPhones next year to compliment thinner and lighter Apple Watches, MacBook Pro laptops and iPad tablets.The company's dramatic reveal of the iPad Pro earlier this year was the "beginning of a new class of Apple devices," according to a new report from Bloomberg, which said Apple plans to announce some of its thinnest and lightest products across the tech ...

Investors pushed Apple's value to new all-time highs Tuesday, rising more than 6% and above $205 per share. The bump came a day after the company announced a series of upgrades planned for its iPhones, iPads and Mac computers that integrate popular new artificial intelligence technologies.At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple announced a new service it calls Apple Intelligence, which is designed to bolster its Siri voice assistant while also helping device owners with their daily tasks. In ...

Apple Intelligence, the company's long-awaited deeper push into AI, made its debut at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. It will be integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia, and OpenAI's ChatGPT technology will be more deeply tied into those platforms as well. AI has played an important role in Apple products for years. But the widespread popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot has shined a bigger spotlight on generative AI, or AI models trained on large swaths of data that c ...

When Apple's Siri voice assistant launched in 2011, it was on the bleeding edge of artificial intelligence technology. Now Apple's partnering with leading startup OpenAI to bring the next generation of AI to the iPhone, iPad and Mac.Announced during Apple's annual WWDC event Monday morning, the tech giant said it will be adding capabilities from OpenAI's popular ChatGPT to the iPhone through its iOS 18 software, which is expected to launch in the fall of this year, as well as to iPadOS and MacOS. Watch thi ...

文章核心观点 美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）因新法律判例撤销对Juul电子烟产品的销售禁令，将重新审查其申请，但撤销禁令不代表授权或拒绝，且FDA对未决申请信息披露有限 [1] 公司情况 - Juul生产加热并汽化尼古丁盐的电子烟和电子液体烟弹，用户吸入蒸汽而非烟雾 [2] - 多年来FDA质疑Juul策略，包括产品吸引青少年、宣传 vaping比吸烟安全，还担忧电子液体烟弹含潜在有害化学物质如苯甲酸 [2] 行业监管 - 2022年6月FDA向Juul发布销售拒绝令（MDOs），7月暂停初始禁令，此后审查“某些科学问题”并对多学科申请进行额外实质性审查 [1] - 2024年6月6日FDA宣布因新判例及对申请人提供信息的审查撤销禁令，撤销MDOs不代表授权或拒绝，也不表明申请可能获批或被拒 [1] - FDA规定限制公开披露未决申请信息 [1]