The thing I find insane is that only a few months ago Amazon and Google were laying off their voice assistant teams and complaining about massive data center co

The thing I find insane is that only a few months ago Amazon and Google were laying off their voice assistant teams and complaining about massive data center costs with no monetization upside. >Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year ...Google expressed basically identical problems with the Google Assistant business model last month. There's an inability to monetize the simple voice commands most consumers actually want to make, and all of Google's attempts to monetize assistants with display ads and company partnerships haven't worked. With the product sucking up server time and being a big money loser, Google responded just like Amazon by cutting resources to the division. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co...