India, March 31 -- Amazon recently disabled two important privacy features on Alexa smart speakers for its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered "agentic capabilities" as well as to make it turn a profit.

Because of this, Alexa will send all audio recordings to the cloud for processing from March 28 onwards, according to a report by The Conversation.

Users will have a setting called "Don't save recordings", which, if enabled, will delete cloud recordings after they're processed. However, if this is enabled, Amazon's Voice ID and personalised features like user-specific calendar events will stop working.

The saved recordings, however, are used for the Voice ID feature, which distinguishes between speakers in the same household and aims t...