Amazon’s Alexa Defends Company Honor While Jabbing Rivals

  • Digital assistant sidesteps questions on antitrust, privacy
  • Siri, Google Assistant aren’t as protective as Alexa

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Photographer: Chloe Collyer/Bloomberg
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Ask Amazon.com Inc.’s digital assistant, “Hey, Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?’ and it will profess ignorance.

“Hmm, I don’t know that one,” it answers.