Amazon has unveiled two new always-listening AI devices under its Bee brand: the $74.99 Bee Frontier wristband/clip and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse, a magnetic smartphone attachment. Both devices record conversations throughout the day to generate summaries, transcripts and to-do lists, and can integrate with services like Gmail, Google Calendar and Apple HealthKit to draft emails or calendar invites. Amazon is also launching a paid Bee Pro subscription at $11.99 a month alongside a free tier.
Amazon is selling the NETGEAR Nighthawk RS180 Wi-Fi 7 router for $149.88, a 25% price cut from its regular price. The discount offers buyers a lower-cost entry point into Wi-Fi 7 networking hardware.
A reader survey found that most Kindle owners are unwilling to pay for Amazon's new Page-Turn Cover accessory, which lets users flip pages via buttons on the cover. Respondents cited the cost of the add-on as the main reason for passing on it despite its added convenience.
Amazon is offering the Roborock Qrevo Series robot vacuum and mop at a 42% discount, marking its lowest price so far in 2026. The device includes a self-emptying dock, dual spinning mop pads, and app-based scheduling and cleaning controls.
Amazon is selling the Oura Ring Gen 3 Horizon in Gold for $269.99, marking an $80 reduction from its usual price. The smart ring tracks sleep and other health metrics.
Amazon is selling Apple's newly announced HomeView smart display for $289.99, a $10 discount, in both gray and starlight colorways. The device, unveiled Tuesday, ships November 13th and features a seven-inch touchscreen, Matter and Thread smart home hub support, a 12-megapixel FaceTime camera, and Siri with personal context awareness.
Apple's new HomeView smart home hub, powered by an A18 chip, does not natively support several of Apple's own apps including Apple TV, Apple Books audiobooks, Apple Music Classical, and Apple News Plus. Instead, those services require AirPlay streaming from a nearby paired iPhone, a limitation Apple discloses only in small print on its announcement page.
Apple, Amazon and Microsoft each announced new AI-focused hardware within the past week, including Apple's wall-mountable HomeView device with an upgraded Siri assistant and a Microsoft Windows laptop built around an Nvidia AI chip starting at $2,599. The companies are pushing faster on-device AI chips and smarter assistants across laptops, tablets, phones and smart home devices ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Amazon has launched new tablets built around its Alexa assistant, following up on the failed Fire Phone experiment from 2014. The devices reportedly reflect lessons Amazon learned about why the Fire Phone did not succeed, according to the commentary.
QuEra has implemented an AI system that automatically restores and fine-tunes laser locks on its quantum computing hardware, a process that previously required on-call human experts, sometimes called in overnight. Built using the Model Hardware Standard developed with Anthropic and HHMI Janelia Research Campus, the AI agent operates within human-set safety limits on roughly $0.7 million of precision equipment, restoring locks within seconds and tuning them to a verifiable quality threshold, including on a second laser wavelength during the same test run.
A Reddit user posted photos showing Japanese retail prices for Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics cards running 5.66% to 41.1% higher than equivalent Amazon US listings, with the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB showing the steepest markup. The comparison, converted at current exchange rates, found RTX 5080 cards averaging a 12.71% premium over US pre-tax prices, with the gap narrowing to under 4% when an 8.5% US sales tax is factored in. Notably, the RTX 5090 was absent from the Japanese listings entirely.
The newsletter Not-Ship reports that Amazon's combined fees—referral commissions, fulfillment charges and advertising costs—can take nearly half of a seller's sale price, even though its base commission of about 15% matches eBay and Walmart. It notes these fee structures are central to the US Federal Trade Commission's pending antitrust case against Amazon.
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