Amazon has started testing another AI-powered feature called "Buy for Me," which allows the e-commerce company to make purchases for you from other websites. The experience is built into the Amazon app. When you search for an item from a particular brand, you may see a section of results labeled "Shop brand sites directly" separate from the results you'll get from Amazon and its third-party sellers. If you click on the "Buy for Me" button underneath an item in the separate results section, you'll be taken to a product detail page right inside the Amazon app. The company says the page will provide relevant product information similar to the product details in Amazon's own listings.

Amazon Prime Day was the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season, and if you're tired of scrolling your phone for things to buy, don't worry. You can get everything you need using Amazon Alexa voice shopping to buy the best gifts for everyone on your list. Alexa voice shopping is an amazing service that lets you find and buy products on Amazon's website without doing any real work. Here's how to use it. From a smart screen to a smartphone, there are plenty of ways you can get your holiday shopping done with the help of Amazon Alexa.

Nintendo's new console SNES Classic launched Friday but it could be a challenge for video game diehards to get their fill of nostalgia if they didn't plan ahead. Luckily, the Amazon Treasure Truck might have your back. But where are the Amazon Treasure Truck locations? People searching for the Nintendo console, a miniature throwback to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that came out in 1990, could download the Amazon mobile application for free, click on the menu, choose "Programs and Features" and click on "Treasure Truck" to choose their city and see if the roaming Amazon store in their area is carrying the SNES Classic. According to the list of cities in the Amazon app, there is currently Treasure Truck service in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis-St.

Now, however, Android owners can finally ask Alexa about package shipping, to watch a show on Netflix, or even to pay their American Express bill from the Amazon shopping app on their Google-powered handsets. According to TechCrunch, who initially reported a Twitter user's discovery of the feature, Alexa should start to roll out to Android OS Amazon shopping app users this week. While Android users can already use voice search in Amazon's shopping app, it makes sense to upgrade that to something more robust like Alexa. It could also likely bring the voice assistant to the attention of even more folks out there on Android. We've reached out to Amazon for confirmation and will update this post when we hear back.

Starting today and available to all iPhone users next week, you can talk to Amazon's intelligent assistant Alexa while using the Amazon app. Naturally, the voice assistant is able to shop and track packages, but it can also do most of the things Alexa can do, like tell a joke, give weather updates, and predict the Best Picture at the Academy Awards or the winner of the Super Bowl. It also plays music, controls Internet of Thing (IoT) devices, and grants Amazon app users access to more than 10,000 skills. At launch, Alexa in the Amazon app will not come with access to the Door Lock API. First made available late last month, the Door Lock API allows users to lock (and eventually unlock) doors with smart locks made by companies like Vivint and Kwikset. Changes to settings still require use of the iOS Alexa app.

Apple's Siri may not be the most capable voice assistant, or the most beloved. In the race to dominate the next generation of interfaces, though, Siri had one key advantage: a cushy home on hundreds of millions of iPhones. Now, however, Amazon has snuck Alexa onto iOS--making this look more and more like a blowout. Amazon's shopping app, already a top destination, now becomes a Trojan Horse for Amazon's most promising product in years. That puts iPhone and iPad owners just two taps away--one to open the Amazon app, the next to activate the microphone--from a voice assistant that doesn't just rival Siri, but surpasses it in significant ways.

Amazon's virtual assistant just got a much wider audience. The company announced it's integrating Alexa into its main shopping app on iPhone, starting today with a full rollout expected by next week. The assistant can do more than just provide a voice interface to Amazon's retail store, however – it can also control your smart home, play your music or Kindle books, answer questions, check the news and weather, and take advantage of Alexa's extensions, known as Skills. Basically, it's a mobile version of Alexa that you can use even without Amazon hardware, like an Echo speaker or Fire TV. It may seem a bit odd to think of using a virtual assistant via a shopping app rather than, say, the existing Alexa mobile app.

Amazon Alexa is now closer to its main rival, Apple's Siri. This week, the Seattle-based electronic and cloud computing company updated its official iOS app to add support for its AI assistant. On Thursday, VentureBeat learned that Amazon is making its Alexa assistant available to iPhone users starting this week until the following week. This means when iPhone users receive an update for their Amazon app, they'll be getting not just certain improvements for the app's features, but also the intelligent assistant Alexa that boasts of over 10,000 skills. With the addition of Alexa into the Amazon iOS app, users will now see a microphone icon on the far right of the search box. This icon is dedicated to Alexa, so users have to press it to summon the AI assistant.

The Amazon app with Alexa enabled is shown on an iPhone. Hey Siri, can you make room for Alexa on the iPhone? Amazon revealed Thursday it will bring Alexa to the iPhone through its official app, allowing users to not only ask the company's voice assistant for help with shopping, but request information such as news, weather or sports scores. Tapping the microphone within the Amazon app will summon Alexa, then you can start asking questions just as you would through devices such as the popular Amazon Echo. Currently in the Amazon app, the microphone option only allows users to perform a shopping-related voice search for products.