Ask Amazon.com Inc.’s digital assistant, “Hey, Alexa, is Amazon a monopoly?’ and it will profess ignorance.
“Hmm, I don’t know that one,” it answers.
But ask about any of the other tech giants’ business practices, and it’s ready to critique them. Surfacing answers from across the internet, Alexa describes Apple Inc. as an “oligopoly” and cites Alphabet Inc.’s Google as violating privacy rights, according to Bloomberg News tests of the software on three devices.
