Amazon's Alexa for Shopping gains tools to edit lists and gift registries

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Amazon is rolling out new capabilities for its AI shopping assistant that let users create, edit, and move items between shopping lists and gift registries. Users can give voice or text commands such as asking it to start a new shopping list or to show what remains on a wedding registry. The features extend the assistant, which Amazon launched in May and which sits beside the search bar in its app and website. The assistant already handles tasks like setting price alerts and comparing products. Amazon has also continued to keep third-party AI shopping agents from companies such as Meta and Perplexity at a distance.

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