In today’s edition…Amazon introduces its new generative AI-powered Alexa; Microsoft workers protest AI deals with the Israeli military; Meta looks to go big on a new data center campus; Chegg sues Google over AI Overviews;

Amazon’s just revealed Alexa+, the new version of the Alexa assistant, but it won’t have all of its cool powers on every Amazon device.

Amazon focused heavily on agentic AI features for Alexa+, including the ability to draft and send text messages and emails to contacts. This is not especially new or revolutionary given the recent agentic AI explosion in the tech world, but it's still worth talking about.