Alexa Plus generates podcasts

amazon's alexa plus now features 'alexa podcasts,' a tool that generates episodes with two ai hosts discussing user-selected topics like history or sports. users receive an outline before generation to steer the conversation or adjust its length, with finished episodes accessible via echo show devices or the alexa app. the content pulls from 200 partnered news publishers such as reuters, vox, and politico. this moves amazon further into generative media, competing with google's notebooklm and microsoft edge's similar audio overview features.