Aug 6, 2026 – 12.01amAmazon’s new chatbot Alexa+ may not be perfect when it launches in Australia on Thursday, but it should do better than its rivals when it comes to making basic errors and spreading falsehoods, the executive in charge of the product says.Moving digital assistants to large language models (LLMs), which Google has done with its error-prone Gemini assistant and Amazon has now done with Alexa+, means the chatbots can use language that is more natural when interacting with users – but it’s brought a new set of problems.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? John DavidsonColumnistJohn Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology.Fetching latest articles