Alexa costs Amazon $46.7M

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Amazon is hoping to turn things around by revealing its generative AI Alexa ambitions and considering a subscription fee for its most impressive features, but this idea is still years away from being viable.

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The judgment against Amazon comes at a time of uncertainty and flux for its voice assistant, Alexa, which is reportedly set to lose the company $10 billion in 2022.

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VoiceBox's lawsuit claimed that Amazon invited VoiceBox employees into meetings about VoiceBox's technologies, only to rip off the company's ideas and poach employees.

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VoiceBox claimed to have developed a prototype similar to Echo and Alexa before Amazon's products were announced.

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The judgment orders Amazon to pay the sum via running royalty rather than a lump sum.

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. The lawsuit claimed that VB Assets had already invented a circular speaker that could connect to the web and answer voice-dictated prompts with a female, robotic voice.

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Amazon has been ordered to pay $46.7 million for infringing on four patents belonging to VB Assets with its Echo smart speakers and Alexa virtual assistant.

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