Odaily News Amazon's iconic virtual assistant Alexa is about to be updated in October this year and will be mainly powered by Anthropic's Claude model rather than its own AI, according to Reuters. Five people familiar with the matter told Reuters that the upgrade will be paid. Amazon will charge users $5 to $10 per month to use its updated "excellent" version of Alexa, while keeping the "classic" version free. (Cointelegraph)