Amazon ($AMZN) offers text shopping AI Alexa to invited customers
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Amazon has begun inviting select US customers to use "Alexa for Shopping," an AI assistant that lets users search, compare, and add products to their cart via text message. Invitees received activation texts, and those left out can join a waitlist, TechCrunch reported. Users describe items in everyday language, and Alexa searches Amazon's catalog to suggest products, compare prices and details, and surface items from across the web even when shoppers don't know exact product names. The rollout matters because it pushes conversational AI into the core shopping flow, potentially shifting how customers discover and buy products and raising the stakes for Amazon's AI commerce ambitions. What to watch next is how broadly Amazon expands the invite-only program beyond the initial US cohort and whether the text-based assistant meaningfully changes conversion and basket behavior.
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