one computer voice is familiar to millions, and is amazon's alexa. one million americans are using -- 61 million americans are using a voice enabled feature. amazon is boosting that market share, and 70% of people are using echo. this comes with alexa. joining us now, tom taylor, senior vice president for amazon's alexa. tom: thank you for having us here. caroline: is it getting too humanoid? tom: certainly it is very interesting, much to be inspired by. i think it shows how important it is we start with the customer and really think about how to work backwards. it is something i believe amazon has always done from my early days in retail. caroline: you have dominant market share of two thirds. how are you keeping up with innovations when you remain that accomplished? tom: we are very excited by the success we have had in the reactions. i think there are many things we will do over the many years. rattling them off, first of all we believe very much in many, there will be many ai's who win. they will not just be one, but we would encourage that. we re

caroline: still ahead, amazon alexa continues to dominate.e will hear from their executive, tom taylor, next. and if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio. you can listen on the bloomberg radio app, bloomberg.com, and in the u.s. on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: now, back to our special coverage from the boston commerce's meeting. we next turned to the rise of the digital assistant in our everyday life. the latest breakthrough in the technological space has amazed and scared some people. when google's new program called duplex calls to make a restaurant reservation, it called a human on the other end of the line. duplex spoke and sounded just like you or i might, complete pauses.s, ums, and one could be the voice for millions, and this is amazon's alexa. this is in a year were 61 million americans are using a voice enabled speaker, amazon is eating up that market share. currently, 67% of those people using the echo that comes with alexa. we spoke with someone intimately familiar with alexa, tom taylor, senior vice pre

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thank you for amazon alexa joining us in boston. and meanwhile amazon is taking a page out of the nfl playbook. it is not about how to run -- it is how to make a board of directors more inclusive. the e-commerce giant has considered women and minorities -- amazon says the new policy normalizes a practice. they faced criticism for imposing a requirement like the nfl which helped increase diversity on its staff like teen interviews with one minority candidate. they have zero people of color and a third made up of women. that would place it above average for e-commerce companies. cookg up, apple ceo tim and president trump on the importance of trade. we bring you the highlights. if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio, the radio app or bloomberg.com and in the u.s. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: welcome back to a special edition of bloomberg technology at boston's convention center. apple ceo tim cook has finally revealed what was discussed in a closed-door meeting with president trump. he has opened up about the meeting t

in the heavy hitter, meg tirrell, for this big story. >> this is a crazy story if you have an amazon alexae you will want to hear this a portland, oregon family said their echo device recorded a private conversation and sent it to a random person on their contact list amazon acknowledged the incident saying alexa misheard a series of sounds in the conversation as instructions to record and send it the family was just discussing hardwood flooring. amazon says it is working on a fix, and what it calls an unlikely string of events from happening again. everyone always thinks amazon alexa is always listening to them i think it's sending me targeting ads. >> so you have one >> i have one. >> do you pull the plug on it now? does this story scare you enough that you're turning the thing off? >> no. >> why not >> i use it for timers what do you mean if you're cooking? alexa, set timer for 20 minutes. that's really all i use it for >> it's listening all the time >> it is that's how it knows to respond to you >> isn't that scary? >> it is, especially when people are concerned about their data privac

the we hear from amazon alexa svp tom taylor.e will get his input on main capitals portfolio and the current season. now on tuesday, we came to live from the great boston chamber of commerce's annual meeting. we spoke with the governor of massachusetts charlie baker. that was on television and radio. take a listen. i certainly think amazon will have a presence here one way or they are adding several thousand more. i certainly think they appreciate what we bring to the table, which is a wonderful collection of tech pallet busters, terrific environment, a great place to raise families. schools, great communities, i fully expect we will be in the hunt. , wehen you were elected also remember it. you had pledged that you were going to fix public transit. the rail into boston every day, i am delayed, there are mechanical problems. i know there have been some improvements, but are we going to be ready. gov. baker: today, i was inspecting new orders and new redline cars. they will start to and at the -- to land at the end of next year. w

danielle, amazon alexa user: "i felt invaded like total privacy invasion. diately i'm like i'm never plugging that device in again. i can't trust it."amazon echo owner danielle says she was chatting with her husband about hardwood floors when the device sent an audio file to a man who works for her husband. she only found out about the recording when she received an alarming phone call.danielle, amazon alexa user: "the person on the other line said unplug your alexa devices right now. we go around and unplug them all. he proceeded to tell us that he had received audio files recordings from what was going on in our house."allison says the device misinterpreted commands like send message on the contact's name as part of the background conversation and called it an extremely rare occurrence. it's unknown if the couple didn't hear alexa's voice replies or see the speaker light up when it was activated or if the device responded at all. either way it's a case of mixed signals that has a lot of consumers thinking twice about just who or what ty bring into the hous

skype that two weeks ago-- their love for alexa changed with an alarming phone call.danielle / amazon alexaerson on the other line said 'unplug your alexa devices right now!'"that person was one of her husband's employees-- calling from seattle."we go around and unplug them all and he proceeded to tell us that he had recieved, audio files, recordings from what was going on in our house."danielle says her amazon device in her portland home recorded a private conversation--and sent that recording to a random contact--which was the employee in seattle.and she repeatedly called amazon. she says an alexa engineer investiged."our engineers went though your logs. they saw exactly what you told us, exactly what you said happened, and we're sorry." "we're sorry?" (catherine) that wraps (catherine) "we're sorry?"we're sorry." "we're sorry?" (catherine) that wraps up kron 4 news at 5.(granti) ken wayne and pam moore are here with kron 4 news at six. (ken) thanks grant and catherine.. next at six. as the saying goes... there's no place like home. and for this man, there's no place like a new home... he

supposedly according to amazon, alexa said the question, should i send hit to whom? alexa heard word of employee that happens to be in the contact list of the husband's phone. so alexa sent that recording to an employee that happened to be a random person in his phone. this is how this all came about. i reached out to amazon themselves. they sent out a statement from dawn, unlikely, big quote, unlikely the string of events is, we're evaluating options to make this case even less likely. but we don't want to hear. we don't want to hear there could be possibly be big brother watching. this is the not first time this came up. unfortunately a case not too long ago a murder in a house. amazon alexa was there, echo, the name of the robot, so in court they did ask for the details and all the recordings on that echo. so yes, amazon echo is recording your information but you're wondering should i delete it? i can't deal with smart devices? i am too scared. no. you have to be smarter about your technology, you also don't want to give out your information. you need to be respons

aditi roy h the details. >> amazon's alexa devices are in 40 milomes across the couny. their jo to always be listening for voice prompts. but in what amazon is calling an unlikely chain ofevents, an amazon echo device inside a home of a rtland,oregon, couple accidentally recorded their private conversation and then sent the audio file to a phone contact. the story is unsettling to echo customers, like alyssa chu. >> that's not what i would intend it to be used for. >> i pretty surprised. that sounds like a lot of mistakes to happen. >> reporter: according to amazon, echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like alexa. then the subsequent conversation was heard as a send message request at which point alexa said to whom. at which point the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customer's contact list. >> i think this will have ramifications for people's trust vel for alexa and other in-home devices. the creepy factor on this is huge. lr>> reporter: amazon isdy in a battle for market share in the home speaker category, a i soustry

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story again, soon you'll be going over to your parents' house to fix both their tivo and their amazon alexaer ] "alexa record -- alexa stop recording. alexa no, record -- oh alexa, turn the tv off." [ laughter ] that's my dad. my dad so -- he's too polite with alexa. >> steve: oh. >> jimmy: he screws everything because he keeps saying please -- "alexa, please tell me the weather, please?" [ laughter ] the sneeze, and -- the trees -- >> sorry, i didn't catch that. >> jimmy: thank you -- yeah. [ laughter and applause ] okay i know -- just unplug it, dad. i saw that verizon's introducing a cheaper, unlimited service plan where data will load more slowly. yep verizon even has a name for the service. sprint. [ laughter ] guys check this out. during butler university's graduation ceremony, the speaker had a little trouble pronouncing the student's name. this is real, watch this. >> rhonda joy hinkle. jacqueline juit. julie jerkoff. forgive me, turkoff! [ laughter ] >> steve: oh! hey! oh! [ laughter ] >> jimmy: now give her a hand! i mean -- [ laughter ] you know what i mean! just unplug this! i d

. -- ed wouldmazon appear that their amazon alexa echo recorded a private conversation and send it to a contacterson and their list. amazon said the unit in question apparently misheard a word in the conversation as "alexa," thereby waking the device, and subsequently misinterpreted snippets of the conversation as commands to send a message to the recipient. and then a confirmation order. a series of highly improbable coincidences, and amazon said it is working on this for the future. fortunately, the conversation was about hardwood flooring, which i do not think has any euphemistic meaning. so i suppose it could have been worse. >> it could have been worse, but at the same time, that is pretty terrifying. >> i do not have one. if i did, i might watch myself around it, honestly. i talk to myself nonstop. >> there are all kinds of reports of alexa thinking you gave it a command but you did not. on its ownlaughing or debt is creepy. i don't know, i do not think the technology is perfected. safe with thely new privacy laws in europe. thank you, brian. next is the press review. time to lo

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interesting that today's privacy day when the new laws are in effect in europe, this is not covered, amazon alexa, because it's not collecting data to sell to advertisers >> thank you for watching, have a great weekend. >> closing bell starts now. >>> the energy trade running out of fuel as oil slips and stocks in the sector do so as well. >> i'm phil lebeau stop using cruise control immediately, a warning to millions of drivers, who is impacted, and what's being done about it >> in lower manhattan, i'm contessa brewer, weinstein pays a million dollars in bail, the rise and fall of this hollywood titan. >> in san francisco, amazon's attempt to shut alexa up after sending out a very private conversation do you need to turn the device off? see how deep the problem may be. >>> and i'm kelly evans. we'll meet the ceo of a company changing sports forever by having drones pose as players. the video is amazing wilfred shows us an rv like never seen before. the "closing bell" starts right now. >>> is the tie straight? >> it looks straight there when i walk, it darts across >> i didn't notice it, you just

. >> so, yesterday we told you the country's largest homebuilder, lennar, will incorporate amazon's alexaa standard feature in future homes. here's a look inside a model home in irvine, california. you can tell alexa to control almost everything -- the blinds, the lights, the temperature, entertainment, even the door lock and the doorbell. the technology is built into the home itself. they're calling this the home of the future, but what does this mean for privacy in the future? you can watch matt gutman's full report and walk-through coming up at 7:00 on "gma." i know you have one of these roombas that go around. >> i do. >> you know what disturbs me about the roomba is when it senses it's low in power it goes back and plugs itself back in. >> it sure does. >> i think you're just going to wake up and it will be on your face one day. like, i really believe -- it's the roomba you have to watch out for, not all this other stuff. >> knock the cat off my face first. >> that's right, little orie oriental. what a cutie. >> it's interesting you thought of that. that's kind of scary. >> look, if

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amazon today dealing with the fallout of a strange incident in which alexa recorded a family's conversationent it to someone else adeity roy has more on what amazon is saying about this. >> a kroez story that's right amazon saying it is an unlikely set of events that sparked that accidental recording the company saying that the portland oregon couple's alexa device mistook certain words in a backgrounds conversation as voice commands the recipient of the private recording was a business associate of the husband the couple learned what happened when he called them up and told them about it. amazon says they are trying to prevent this from happening again. it comes at a time when google home products are winning over more customers the case price up privacy concerns i talked to consumers. the ones who already own home speakers were surprised something like this could happen butsaid they will still keep number devices plugged in. >> crazy stuff thank you. really are you kidding me let's bring in ed reed and john scott melton we knew the devices were always listening. how else does the echo hea

amazon alexa has captured the fascination of the world. glenn has said it is not just about force assistance, it is much more. >> you could argue microsoft and isgle are leaders and amazon lagging behind. that is one way to measure it. ofhave not seen a lot clarity. aboutelon musk has warmed -- warned about an apocalyptic teacher -- feature with ai. >> i think there are some many regulatory issues and i don't think we can think about any of the stuff on the china side of the story and the potential they will have on this space. -- -- is ai going to create more jobs or destroyed more jobs. how do we robot proof our children. if we start, then actually that is an opportunity, but right now we are not being paid. directiong more inept they will try to move the ownership back. many ethical questions. >> they are talking about how they are thinking about responsibility that is said when they are required -- acquired by google. we need to have safeguards in aboutgiven very limited what that looks like him i think .oogle is traveling with that a

old school. >> thank you for calling amazon. >> amazon told us none of alexa's recommendations are ads, and there's no rhyme or reason why programmers selected those answer. they are not a placement for advertising, they're simply an extension of alexa's personality. she does have personality. have you heard her corny jokes? >> why was the coffeepot a star on instagram? because he was a pro with filters. >> most people go to their friends and family for financial advice. and alexa most closely mimics that dialog. >> 39 million and counting homes have smart speakers, likely fertile ground for advertisers. if they add media placement, people need to know. >> we need as much disclosure as we can about advertising. >> all right, we have an update tonight. alexa, what's a good credit card for me? >> sorry, i don't know that. >> yeah, that started happening right after we started asking questions. we asked amazon why, and we did not get a response. >> that's your response. >> interesting if it happens with the other products. she still does recommend those. just the credit card one. that's t

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samsung plans to use it as a third-party option to amazon alexa.nd allows to deploy anywhere while maintaining content and users. when it comes to streaming video, games, and more, a critical component. the company announced first-quarter results monday, which beat revenue earnings per share. stocks trading higher since then. its ceo spoke to bloomberg about online streaming and the online security services the company provides. >> security is not something a lot of people see. they see the sporting events online and they think of akamai way, but security is one quarter of our revenue. when it is growing 36% year-over-year, it may be a bigger business maybe than media. >> how do they compare with margins on the security side? >> way, but security is one quarter of our revenue. run the security margins are even higher. media, there is a cost to serve those videos. security, it is a different set up. in the longit is filtering outd traffic. exciting technology we have deployed to stop account takeovers. i was speaking with an exec of one of the world

banana republic and gap. >> down as much as 13% >> let's move on it may be some amazon alexa users' worstompany explaining how its alexa device recorded a family's entire private conversation and then sent it to a random contact. aditi roy has more on that story for us >> david, it's a real talker amazon saying it is an unlikely set of events that sparked that accidental recording the company says the portland, oregon, couple's alexa device mistook certain words in a background conversation as voice commands the company telling us echo woke up due to a word in background conversations sounding like alexa. then the subsequent conversation was heard as a send message request. at which point alexa said out loud to home at which point it was interpreted as a name in the customer's contact list. the recipient of that private recording was a business associate of the husband, according to a local tv station in seattle the company learned what happened when he called them up and told them he had audio files of their private conversation at home at first they didn't believe him but then he heard

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all recent recordings are available on amazon's alexa app. so after you open the app, click the menu on the left side, pick settings and scroll down to your history. you can then delete any recordings you want to remove. >>> snapchat is reportedly working on a new platform called snap kit. it would let other apps offer a log-in with snapchat option. similar to one facebook already offers. it's unclear when the social media giant plans to launch the new platform. >>> two giants pitchers are knocked out of the game with injuries and the a's had the leather if --that's a big if, if the ball stayed in the park. we'll explain coming up. my name is tony thurmond. education isn't the goal, - it's the gateway. hold the key... to every child's opportunity. we reject trump's attacks on our public schools. and invest in the teachers dreamers. modernize our curriculum and empower educators to teach beyond the test because creativity and critical thinking are as important as facts and figures. i'm tony thurmond the work starts now. state superintendent. w

alexa seemed to hear the correct prompts to then spur the actions. so it seems like there might have been -- it's really unlikely situation that there might be situations where amazon'sking or alexa is talking and they just didn't hear her talking >> all right aditi, thank you >> unbelievable. >> they must have children they ignored it. >> this is my worst nightmare. this is why i do not have any of these amazon products in your home the question is, is this going to cause other people to not >> why couldn't this happen. >> >>. >> it happens a lot when it starts to dictate on a text message and i hear the bell and know i have to shut it off again. this is the world we live. in i don't think it's great. >> but you have your phone and you're not going to get rid of your phone people choose to put this device in the living room >> you can deactivate it i think this is very similar discussion about the privacy issues we're talking about with facebook if you find a utility in the thing, you understand what you signed up for and there you go registering its kind of like a little sci-fiish, what we're saying and having a file of it that's a problem i kind of feel like this

researchers can now send secret audio instructions undetectable to the human heir to apple's siri amazon's alexa and google's assistant so you could be sitting there having a conversation in your living room with your partner or your friends or your some intimate person your family member and it could be sending somebody could be sending commands to your devices around you your internet of thing listening devices around you and doing things you know the article points out the researchers say well they could order something online for you for example that you won't even hear the command it's being spoken right there in the room with you but you can't hear it but of course it could do more nefarious things eventually well the human being is not evolved sufficiently to succeed in this twenty first century you know our senses did a remarkable job of keeping humans alive for a million years in terms of being able to hear see taste feel but now some of the algorithms in the machines of the robots have evolved past humans capabilities to see more hear more understand more feel more we as humans have to

alexa, set an alarm for 1:15 a.m. that was me. amazon only listen in and record after you use the wake word which is alexa to make that request. we talked about that. i have to tell you, my list was really boring. >> we've got to get you to live a little. >> maria: you don't know -- your list wa was boring maybe but you don't know what she may have been recording that wasn't boring. everything you said, that's what she recorded. >> that's the whole list. as you know, i'm kind of pro-alexa a. i'm one of those people out there. for folks who say this new technology, i don't trust it. darpa has been developing the technology for 50 years. it's been around for a long time. it's nothing new. the stock price right there, they're doing pretty well. >> to get your case and your preferences and they're using it for their own advertising platform, they started to unroll it so they can do when you go to buy things, it's in their system. they have richer data on you and that data's worth more to advertisers. nike is selling on the platform many you'

the conversation as command and thought she was being instruct today send the message, alexa thought she was. amazonaid, quote, as unlikely as this string of events is, evaluating options to make this case even less likely. cheryl: do i have to have an alexa? >> occasionally it hears alexa when you're not saying alexa. that's the command that gets it started interacting with you. cheryl: okay, i'm holding off. story going viral. sad truce. >> kids always tell the truth, louisiana second grade teacher facebook post has been shared more than 250,000 times, wake-up call for parents, writing assignment, i don't like to phone because my parents are on their phone every day, i hate my mom's phone and i wish she never had one. in fact, four students wrote the same similar answer there. parents have been commenting on the post with feelings of guilt while other teachers have echoed the same sentiments, parents, kids are watching, put the phone down. cheryl: story of the day. gerri: tracee, thank you for that. cheryl: we have a lot coming up. they are not getting a break in hawaii, the lava flow evacuating r

. ♪ see a tractor hardwired ♪ they will see heather: amazon's alexa device under fire for reporting ad sending it to a random person. a family and organ claims it logged there talking and shared it with someone in their contact list was amazon said it was likely activated by a word in the background noise which kick started the process. doesn't matter why it happened, amazon apologizing calling it extremely rare occurrence and they are taking steps to avoid this happening in the future. i wish my mom's phone was never invented, what a second grader, a school project going viral after nominate a schoolteacher in louisiana posted that online. it reads i don't like the phone because my parents are on their phone every day. i hate my mom's phone and wish you never had one. several student had similar responses when asked to fix something they wish was never invented. do you think we have become too attached to our phones? the art of verbal conversation is being lost. edward posted on facebook most people are too attached to their phones. it is annoying to talk to someone in person face-to

amazon is lagging behind but people think i will ask my alexa for something even though there are competingoice systems from google and apple. where we haven't seen a lot of , some people say it's impossible to regulate ai but when the machine learning's tools affects truckers and they move into sectors like banking and finance that is where we might see some regulation and consequences of machine learning and not broadly about technology. >> elon musk is worried about an apocalyptic future. could it be apocalyptic if we get there? there are so many regulatory issues before we get there. >> the potential footprint they will have is really impactful. view it as much from the national security perspective, i would view it more as the threat to the economy and the way we feel in u.s. and europe, that is what i would be focused on at the moment. >> what is the bottom line when it comes to jobs? will it create jobs, destroy jobs? how do we robot proof our children to make sure that they have jobs to do when they grow up? >> i think ai can be a huge opportunity for jobs. the reason is it is our d

since scott kia told me that nvidia made the best chips in the world they make the chips behind amazon alexaival in terms of the amount of processing fire. the heart of the problem with today's action nvidia's graphic cards are so powerful that they can be used to mine cryptocurrency when bitcoin was soaring, snapped up nvidia's cards. and nvidia flagged this issue telling you the nvidia graphic cards were going to slow next quarter would produce a steep dropoff for business and cause investors to panic just as i feared just as every other line of business was down right fabulous look, i warned you this would hn and apparently that wasn't enough to prevent the stock from selling off on something that should have been expected by everybody. in part because nvidia stock had run so much and a lot of people felt it was way too expensive and when they heard this news, they had to get out. nvidia stock always looked expensive on the near term earnings but that is not the right method when really matters is how the stock trades in the outyears in 20 sixteens it looked like it was selling -- only be

a woman in claims her amazon alexa record a private conversation and sent it to a random contact in herne. she only found out when that person told her. amazon looked into it and blamed it on a series of misunderstandings. we investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence. we are taking steps to avoid this happening in the future. was this a one-off or evidence of a much bigger problem? jamie weinstein, jehmu greene, and jimmy jones. do you have one of -- of these devices. >> i just walked toib my house one day and i had one. this is almost the user's fault. if they talk the way i do they can't understand you anyway. don't hook them up to your accounts. kennedy: can you manage what people talk about when they think they are having a private conversation? >> what i talk about now is going to be turning on the water and going into the bathroom. kennedy: people thought edward snowden was crazy. when they went to china to meet with them he took everyone's cell phones batteries out and put them in the freezer. he knew everybody was watching and listening. >>

berkeley researchers found that apple's siri, amazon's alexa and goog's assistant can all be hacked bymmands in music and even spoken words. researchers have been able to dial phone numbers and open websites. but in the wrong hands it could be used to unlock doors, wire money or buy stuff online simply with music playing over the radio. amazon, google and apple say they are taking steps to make the systems more secure. >>> we've all heard of robo calls but latery political campaigns have been doing something else. >> yeah, they're texting now. jonathan bloom explains how they got your number in the first place and why it's legal. >> reporter: how would you feel if you got a random text? he's not the only one. >> it's like a little bit of your invasion of your privacy. how did they get my number? >> reporter: there are plenty of theories. campaigns are texing you at the number you gave when you registered to vote. it started during the last presidential campaign. new newsom's campaign is one of many. >> texting hundreds of thousands of voters per week and this is an effort to talk to vo

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technology a standard feature in its new homes. >> lenar said all house will be equipped with amazon's alexait will have built in wi-fi, thermostats. each house comes with two device, echo show, and an echo dot. yesterday lenar unveiled new model homes including one in vallejo. >> control a whole lot of your life. >> we had an impulse buy and got the light bulbs. pretty cool. >> it changed my life, honestly. the light turns on in the morning right when my alarm clock rings and gets me out of the bed. pretty nice. >> full on or fade up? >> i'm usually sound asleep. i don't know. i wake up. it's light when i wake up. >> you just don't bounce out of bed at 1:30 in the morning bright eyed and bushey tailed. >> i think it's got great applications if you have kids. you can turn off everything. if it could mow the lawn. talk about what's going on weather wise. speaking of doing some landscaping, some lawn chores. get the yard looking really nice for mom during her weekend. here's a look at pier 39. i want to show you some fun this morning. oh, sure now they all just lay down and do their thing. the

all right, a disturbing story about amazon's alexa sparking privacy concerns. uple's private conversation was mysteriously recorded by their amazon echo and sent to one of their contacts according to a report. the couple found out only when they received a phone call two weeks ago from one of the husband's employees telling them to unplug your alexa right now, you are being hacked. was "anold that it extremely rare occurrence." coming up, hear what the founder of ethereum thinks of cryptocurrency regulation. before that, take a listen to french president macron telling the crowd how he wants to level the playing field for startups competing with tech giants. >> a lot of startups are competing with large corporate and they tell me, i pay tax in france. we are increasing those taxes, fine. but it's not fair for somebody else to pay no tax. that's why i am a strong supporter, and i will fight to the end for the tax of big players. i think it's fair. it's good for everybody. it is sustainable. ♪ emily: after years of losses, uber has turned a profit in the first qua

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>> reporter: but how secure are amazon's alexa, apple siri, or google's digital assistance?> there is a race to make these devices do more and more. >> reporter: the devices are easy to use vocal recognition software, vulnerable to hackers. giving them access to e-mails and other personal and financial information. >> and there are some devices that do try to have some security mechanisms, but othespeaker verification programs could help prevent these attacks. >> reporter: hidden commands and white noise, music, or something that sounds like human speech. he gave me a brief demonstration on how a simple sentence could sound one way to the human ear, while being designed to secretly give the computer a completely different set of instructions. amazon, google, and apple, nicholas says, are constantly working to improve their voice recognition software and security safeguards, but it's complicated. and that, nicholas says, should be an important reminder and warning. when using these voices designed extensively to make our lives simpler. in berkeley, devin fehely, kpix 5. >>> w