Amazon is replacing its Rufus AI shopping assistant with Alexa for Shopping, powered by Alexa+, on Amazon.com and its app for all customers in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

<a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/929457/amazon-announces-alexa-for-shopping-ai-assistant-rufus"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260513/i24.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260513/p24#a260513p24" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / <a href="https://www.theverge.com/">The Verge</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/929457/amazon-announces-alexa-for-shopping-ai-assistant-rufus">Amazon is replacing its Rufus AI shopping assistant with Alexa for Shopping, powered by Alexa+, on Amazon.com and its app for all customers in the US</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The company is giving its AI-powered assistant special shopping skills on its website and app. &hellip; Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon &hellip; </p>