HT @BISG Unlike many other online retailers, Amazon has designed its website so that visually impaired consumers (a $6.9B market) can find what they want and purchase. Here is how….

Amazon’s Alexa AI team has developed a new training method for the virtual assistant that could greatly improve its ability to handle tricky questions. It combines both text-based search and a custom-built knowledge graph, two methods which normally compete.

Watch this space – Amazon will have ads all over Alexa in the future.

‪I guess we can learn sales techniques from AI?

HT @nycmedialab JPMorgan Chase has went all-in on Persado’s NLG tech after finding that the platform’s generated ad copy performed two to five times better than human copywriters’ efforts.

ICYMI The unlikely tale of two Cuban American girls living out their shared dream.

RT @publisherswkly Can a nomadic Australian tech entrepreneur transform literary agenting? This agency certainly thinks so.

Vogue has centralized its content output for its global Instagram accounts and it’s paying off, particularly with Instagram Stories.

Enrique Jiménez makes use of artificial intelligence to fill in the many tantalizing gaps in the surviving texts written on clay tablets by scribes in early urban societies 3000 years ago.

Pinterest now has a dedicated home for your personalized shopping recommendations. Available from the home feed, the platform now collects products based on user interests in a single location. The company has also announced an update that expands the option to shop entire catalogs.