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The retailer unveiled the Frontier wristband and Eclipse brick, wearables that continuously record daily interactions and leverage artificial intelligence to deliver personalized reminders and insights.
The retailer has implemented an AI‑powered monitoring tool that analyses employee messages to gauge unionization risk, sparking concerns over privacy and workers’ rights.
Bee, the Amazon‑backed maker of personal AI wearables, announced the Bee Frontier wrist‑style device and the Bee Eclipse credit‑card‑sized unit, both offering free conversation summaries and an optional subscription for deeper Amazon service integration.
Amazon announced that Prime Day 2026 set a new record for shopper activity and introduced AI enhancements, including Claude Haiku 5.5 on Bedrock and Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic for voice‑based services.
The e‑commerce giant said the layoffs are part of a wider cost‑reduction effort, announcing the cuts amid its Prime Big Deal Days promotion.
Amazon is reportedly negotiating a purchase of San Francisco‑based Decart, a startup that streamlines moving workloads across AI processors, in a deal valued at roughly $7 billion.
The new EC2 R8gd servers, built on Graviton4 chips, bring up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe storage and deliver roughly 30% higher performance for workloads running in AWS’s Europe‑based sovereign cloud.
AWS chief announced that the company will no longer require NDAs when negotiating data‑center projects with federal agencies, responding to criticism over the opacity of its government‑cloud operations.
Amazon Web Services unveiled Strands Decider 2B, a new decision‑model platform built on concepts from TypeSafe’s Jev, aimed at delivering fast, inexpensive choice automation for developers.
Blind’s latest data reveals that while AI‑heavy firms like Nvidia and OpenAI are hiring, giants such as Amazon and Google are actually experiencing high employee churn rather than layoffs.
Amazon upgraded its Seller Assistant with continuous workflows, persistent memory, and a plugin that integrates the assistant into Amazon Quick and Anthropic’s Claude.
Amazon introduced an agentic AI service called "workflows" that automates listing, inventory management, and pricing for third‑party sellers, integrating with tools like Amazon Quick and Anthropic’s Claude.
Amazon.com Inc. said AI models should only be released after rigorous testing and strong safeguards, weighing in on the debate over the pace of AI development amid safety concerns raised by top labs.
AWS cannot restore access to its Bahrain data center and a UAE zone following damage from the Iran war, impacting regional cloud services.
Amazon suspended its partnership with 21 Air following the fatal crash of an Amazon Prime Air cargo plane in Miami, citing safety concerns.
Amazon will permanently lay off 121 employees across Washington state as part of a broader AI‑driven restructuring effort, even as the company reports strong financial performance.
Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping now uses AI to verify whether a customer message originates from Amazon, helping users spot phishing and other scams.
Amazon announced a 53‑job cut in Bellevue as part of a broader 121‑position layoff across Washington state, filed under WARN.
New Jersey sued Amazon, accusing it of wielding monopsony power over third‑party delivery contractors, alleging wage suppression and anti‑competitive practices in its delivery network.