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  1. You can finally chat with Amazon’s AI-enhanced Alexa+ on the web – PCWorld

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    You can finally chat with Amazon’s AI-enhanced Alexa+ on the web

    The just-launched website lets you share files with Alexa+, manage shopping lists and to-do items, control smart home devices, and more.

    By Ben Patterson, Senior Writer, TechHive, Dec 17, 2025 7:57 am PST

    Image: Ben Patterson / Foundry

    Summary created by Smart Answers AI

    In summary:

    • Amazon has launched a web portal for Alexa+ at Alexa.com, providing early access users with a ChatGPT-like interface featuring suggested prompts and easy text copying capabilities.
    • PCWorld reports the portal allows file uploads for document analysis and offers improved usability compared to previous voice-only interactions with Amazon’s AI assistant.
    • Alexa+ remains free during early access, with future plans to offer it free to Prime members while charging non-Prime users a monthly fee.

    It’s been nearly a year since Amazon first launched the new, AI-enhanced Alexa+, but until now, a key feature has been missing: the ability to access and chat with Alexa+ on the web. 

    Now it appears Amazon has fulfilled that promise, with an Alexa+ web portal finally going live—for at least some Alexa+ early access users, anyway—at Alexa.com. 

    The new Alexa+ web portal will look familiar to anyone who’s accessed ChatGPT or Google Gemini on the web. A big chatbox sits front and center, with a friendly “Hello Ben, how can I help?” heading, along with buttons that reveal suggested prompts (“Create a plan for my next getaway,” “Teach me a surprising fun fact,” “Add an event to my calendar,” “Create an image of a dinosaur,” “Book a table at a nearby restaurant”) on mouse rollover. 

    On the left side of the screen are shortcuts to your Alexa+ chat history (good for revisiting Alexa+ discussions you’ve had on an Echo speaker), smart home controls (just basic ones, mind you), your calendar, lists, reminders, and uploaded files. 

    That last feature—the ability to upload files to Alexa+—is a big one, as it allows you to do things like upload resumes for Alexa to tinker with, or any other documents you’d like Alexa to analyze.  

    Just for fun, I uploaded a configuration file for the Jellyfin media player installation on my Raspberry Pi, and Alexa+ did a reasonably good job of sifting through the code and offering optimization suggestions. (Alexa+ gets a decent chunk of its AI smarts courtesy of Anthropic’s Claude.) I then picked up the conversation on an Echo speaker, allowing Alexa and me to continue batting around Jellyfin ideas. 

    Another nifty thing about the new Alexa+ web portal is that it makes Alexa+’s ability to compose letters and other documents a lot more useful. Before, if you asked Alexa+ to write (for example) a thank-you letter to a friend, there was no easy way to grab the text and put it into a text editor for fine-tuning. (It’s possible to access Alexa+ chats in the Alexa app, but it’s a tedious process.) With the web portal, you can just click the Copy button beneath any Alexa+ response, just as you can with ChatGPT or Gemini. 

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  2. ‪Courtesy: Hakeem Jefferson‬ ‪@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social‬

    The #TrumpVance embrace of #DanielPenny isn't just about "law and order" — it's #whiteidentitypolitics A defense of a #RacialHierarchy where Penny can kill a Black man on a train and face no consequences. They're reminding us they want to preserve this status quo.

    #BlackMastodon
    Just to #OwnTheLibs

  3. Waiting for the day we move beyond client/server architecture and towards peer-to-peer systems where everyone owns and hosts their own data on their own hardware and #OwnTheEndNodes

    #OwnTheMeansOfCommunication

  4. Am #feelingvindicated

    Been saying since back when Tea Party was turfed that these cretins have been saying anything, without believing it, to #ownthelibs. Now here's their Propagandist-in-chief saying just that -- and under oath.

    rawstory.com/sean-hannity-unde

  5. Am #feelingvindicated

    Been saying since back when Tea Party was turfed that these cretins have been saying anything, without believing it, to #ownthelibs. Now here's their Propagandist-in-chief saying just that -- and under oath.

    rawstory.com/sean-hannity-unde

  6. ‪Courtesy: Hakeem Jefferson‬ ‪@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social‬

    The #TrumpVance embrace of #DanielPenny isn't just about "law and order" — it's #whiteidentitypolitics A defense of a #RacialHierarchy where Penny can kill a Black man on a train and face no consequences. They're reminding us they want to preserve this status quo.

    #BlackMastodon
    Just to #OwnTheLibs

  7. ‪Courtesy: Hakeem Jefferson‬ ‪@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social‬

    The #TrumpVance embrace of #DanielPenny isn't just about "law and order" — it's #whiteidentitypolitics A defense of a #RacialHierarchy where Penny can kill a Black man on a train and face no consequences. They're reminding us they want to preserve this status quo.

    #BlackMastodon
    Just to #OwnTheLibs

  8. ‪Courtesy: Hakeem Jefferson‬ ‪@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social‬

    The #TrumpVance embrace of #DanielPenny isn't just about "law and order" — it's #whiteidentitypolitics A defense of a #RacialHierarchy where Penny can kill a Black man on a train and face no consequences. They're reminding us they want to preserve this status quo.

    #BlackMastodon
    Just to #OwnTheLibs

  9. ‪Courtesy: Hakeem Jefferson‬ ‪@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social‬

    The #TrumpVance embrace of #DanielPenny isn't just about "law and order" — it's #whiteidentitypolitics A defense of a #RacialHierarchy where Penny can kill a Black man on a train and face no consequences. They're reminding us they want to preserve this status quo.

    #BlackMastodon
    Just to #OwnTheLibs

  10. @lisawborden
    If you always capitalize the F, then it's clearer that the word is short for #antiFascist. Then you can also make it clear that those who feel threatened by it are associating themselves with #proFa. It's just #WorkingClass Americans shooting themselves in the feet in an effort to #OwnTheLibs .
    #antiFa #Diversity #Fascism #Denial #Nazi #MAGA

  11. #introduction

    A weird woman from a slowly dying post-industrial town that Phillips built and then abandoned, caring for her elderly parents, living mostly online since there is no much else here but broken promises and wasted potential

    When something gets easy, I find a new challenge

    When something is difficult, I find a better way to do it

    When lost I set up base camp and explore & map the territory

    I read, write, draw, cook, garden, tinker, repair, salvage, provide care and make things...

    Someone who goes unnoticed, a walking encyclopaedia, a caster of spells, a shapeshifter, a wannabe immortal, a resilient survivor, a caregiver, someone physically disabled, autistic, tall, someone who longs for a feline friend, lives online since before the Eternal September, a keeper of dreams, a hungry fool, who hates endings, loves closures, who loves scary things, someone who smiles

    Someone who hopes to someday keep bees 🐝

    #Waiver By following me, you accept that prolonged exposure may cause irreversible changes to how you perceive the world & yourself

    #LivingOnline #RightToPrivacy #RightToBeSafe #RightToPseudonymity #RightToAnonymity
    #OwnTheEndNodes #SelfHosting
    #RightToBeForgotten #RightToEncryption #RightToSalvage #RightToRepair #RawText #IndieWeb #FrugalDesign #SustainableComputing #Informatica #Mathematics #Science #Forth #Scheme #Lisp #SmalTalk #Self #Pascal #Haskell #Science #TeΧ #Emacs #HomeLab

  12. #introduction

    A weird woman from a slowly dying post-industrial town that Phillips built and then abandoned, caring for her elderly parents, living mostly online since there is no much else here but broken promises and wasted potential

    When something gets easy, I find a new challenge

    When something is difficult, I find a better way to do it

    When lost I set up base camp and explore & map the territory

    I read, write, draw, cook, garden, tinker, repair, salvage, provide care and make things...

    Someone who goes unnoticed, a walking encyclopaedia, a caster of spells, a shapeshifter, a wannabe immortal, a resilient survivor, a caregiver, someone physically disabled, autistic, tall, someone who longs for a feline friend, lives online since before the Eternal September, a keeper of dreams, a hungry fool, who hates endings, loves closures, who loves scary things, someone who smiles

    Someone who hopes to someday keep bees 🐝

    #Waiver By following me, you accept that prolonged exposure may cause irreversible changes to how you perceive the world & yourself

    #LivingOnline #RightToPrivacy #RightToBeSafe #RightToPseudonymity #RightToAnonymity
    #OwnTheEndNodes #SelfHosting
    #RightToBeForgotten #RightToEncryption #RightToSalvage #RightToRepair #RawText #IndieWeb #FrugalDesign #SustainableComputing #Informatica #Mathematics #Science #Forth #Scheme #Lisp #SmalTalk #Self #Pascal #Haskell #Science #TeΧ #Emacs #HomeLab

  13. #introduction

    A weird woman from a slowly dying post-industrial town that Phillips built and then abandoned, caring for her elderly parents, living mostly online since there is no much else here but broken promises and wasted potential

    When something gets easy, I find a new challenge

    When something is difficult, I find a better way to do it

    When lost I set up base camp and explore & map the territory

    I read, write, draw, cook, garden, tinker, repair, salvage, provide care and make things...

    Someone who goes unnoticed, a walking encyclopaedia, a caster of spells, a shapeshifter, a wannabe immortal, a resilient survivor, a caregiver, someone physically disabled, autistic, tall, someone who longs for a feline friend, lives online since before the Eternal September, a keeper of dreams, a hungry fool, who hates endings, loves closures, who loves scary things, someone who smiles

    Someone who hopes to someday keep bees 🐝

    #Waiver By following me, you accept that prolonged exposure may cause irreversible changes to how you perceive the world & yourself

    #LivingOnline #RightToPrivacy #RightToBeSafe #RightToPseudonymity #RightToAnonymity
    #OwnTheEndNodes #SelfHosting
    #RightToBeForgotten #RightToEncryption #RightToSalvage #RightToRepair #RawText #IndieWeb #FrugalDesign #SustainableComputing #Informatica #Mathematics #Science #Forth #Scheme #Lisp #SmalTalk #Self #Pascal #Haskell #Science #TeΧ #Emacs #HomeLab

  14. #introduction

    A weird woman from a slowly dying post-industrial town that Phillips built and then abandoned, caring for her elderly parents, living mostly online since there is no much else here but broken promises and wasted potential

    When something gets easy, I find a new challenge

    When something is difficult, I find a better way to do it

    When lost I set up base camp and explore & map the territory

    I read, write, draw, cook, garden, tinker, repair, salvage, provide care and make things...

    Someone who goes unnoticed, a walking encyclopaedia, a caster of spells, a shapeshifter, a wannabe immortal, a resilient survivor, a caregiver, someone physically disabled, autistic, tall, someone who longs for a feline friend, lives online since before the Eternal September, a keeper of dreams, a hungry fool, who hates endings, loves closures, who loves scary things, someone who smiles

    Someone who hopes to someday keep bees 🐝

    #Waiver By following me, you accept that prolonged exposure may cause irreversible changes to how you perceive the world & yourself

    #LivingOnline #RightToPrivacy #RightToBeSafe #RightToPseudonymity #RightToAnonymity
    #OwnTheEndNodes #SelfHosting
    #RightToBeForgotten #RightToEncryption #RightToSalvage #RightToRepair #RawText #IndieWeb #FrugalDesign #SustainableComputing #Informatica #Mathematics #Science #Forth #Scheme #Lisp #SmalTalk #Self #Pascal #Haskell #Science #TeΧ #Emacs #HomeLab

  15. #introduction

    A weird woman from a slowly dying post-industrial town that Phillips built and then abandoned, caring for her elderly parents, living mostly online since there is no much else here but broken promises and wasted potential

    When something gets easy, I find a new challenge

    When something is difficult, I find a better way to do it

    When lost I set up base camp and explore & map the territory

    I read, write, draw, cook, garden, tinker, repair, salvage, provide care and make things...

    Someone who goes unnoticed, a walking encyclopaedia, a caster of spells, a shapeshifter, a wannabe immortal, a resilient survivor, a caregiver, someone physically disabled, autistic, tall, someone who longs for a feline friend, lives online since before the Eternal September, a keeper of dreams, a hungry fool, who hates endings, loves closures, who loves scary things, someone who smiles

    Someone who hopes to someday keep bees 🐝

    #Waiver By following me, you accept that prolonged exposure may cause irreversible changes to how you perceive the world & yourself

    #LivingOnline #RightToPrivacy #RightToBeSafe #RightToPseudonymity #RightToAnonymity
    #OwnTheEndNodes #SelfHosting
    #RightToBeForgotten #RightToEncryption #RightToSalvage #RightToRepair #RawText #IndieWeb #FrugalDesign #SustainableComputing #Informatica #Mathematics #Science #Forth #Scheme #Lisp #SmalTalk #Self #Pascal #Haskell #Science #TeΧ #Emacs #HomeLab