Amazon previews an Alexa Plus update that handles multi-step smart home instructions

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Amazon is previewing an Alexa Plus update that connects to smart home devices in new ways and handles more complicated, multi-step instructions. Voice assistants are converging on the same capability jump as ChatGPT and Claude voice this week — from single commands to compound task execution. Alexa's install base makes it the largest test of whether consumers actually use agentic voice once it works.