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Amazon announced a wave of fall hardware, including the Echo Show 16 with a 16-inch anodized aluminum display, a 13-megapixel wide-angle camera, and an upgraded Omnisense sensor platform, priced at $499.99 ($569.99 with anti-glare Nanomatte screen). It also introduced a $199.99 Alexa Photo Frame that uses Alexa Plus to surface Amazon Photos based on people and context, plus a new Echo Dot with a built-in smart home hub.
Amazon unveiled the Echo Time, a new smart alarm clock with a 3.2-inch round touchscreen and a sleep-sensing feature designed to wake users during an optimal point in their sleep cycle. The device, priced at $199.99 and available for order now, lets users set alarms directly via touchscreen rather than voice, and keeps the clock face visible as a priority display even while handling other Alexa functions.
Amazon announced the Echo Show 16, a large smart display priced at $499.99 with a wall mount, or $569.99 for a Nanomatte screen option, available for preorder now with a $100 discount ahead of a later release this year. The device introduces customizable homescreens called Screen Styles, letting users choose a family organizer, smart home dashboard, Alexa widgets screen, or photo frame, with screens able to stay on continuously or activate on approach.
Amazon unveiled an updated Echo Studio with Home Camera, a $249.99 speaker featuring a built-in camera for room monitoring, showing items to Alexa, and eventually video calls on Fire TV. The speaker also adds 'Advanced Room Adaptation' and 'Adaptive Volume' audio features, while the standard camera-less Echo Studio remains available at $219.99. Amazon also refreshed the Echo Dot, now $99.99, with a custom AZ3 chip, a fourth microphone, a built-in Zigbee/Matter/Thread smart home hub, and an Eero Wi-Fi extender.
Amazon has released the Alexa Photo Frame, a 10-inch touchscreen digital picture frame with a built-in Alexa Plus smart speaker, starting at $199.99 for a black version or $229 for wood finishes. The device pulls photos from Amazon Photos, supports voice-recorded notes attached to images, and Amazon says it will never display ads, unlike its Echo Show devices.
Anthropic's IPO filing reveals that venture firms like Menlo Ventures, Sequoia, Sound Ventures and Spark Capital each hold less than 5% of the company, despite multi-billion-dollar stakes, because Anthropic's valuation of $965 billion makes even small percentages worth billions. Amazon, which invested through convertible notes rather than upfront equity, holds notes with $6.2 billion in principal that Amazon itself values at $97.9 billion as the company's valuation has risen. Anthropic recorded a $72.4 billion non-cash charge in the first half of 2026 reflecting the rising value of these notes and other instruments.
Amazon Prime Air is expanding its drone delivery operations to nearly 500 US cities and towns and has launched service near Darlington in England, while smaller drone delivery operators are also spreading across US cities for food and treats. Residents near these operations are reporting that drone noise, though often quieter than traffic overall, stands out sharply because of its pitch and low-altitude, direct-overhead flight paths.
Amazon officially stopped software support for Kindle models released before 2013 as of May 20, blocking those devices from buying, borrowing, or downloading new books. Owners of affected ereaders can still preserve existing libraries, sideload books through alternative methods, or repurpose the hardware for other uses rather than discarding it.
The TCL TAB A1 is currently discounted to $179.97 on Amazon, down $40 from its $219.99 list price, an 18% reduction. The tablet features an 11-inch 2.1K display with a 90Hz refresh rate, a MediaTek Helio G100 chip, 6GB RAM, 128GB storage, an 8,000mAh battery, USB-C charging and Android 16.
Amazon is selling the XGIMI MoGo 4 portable projector for $399, a $100 discount off its $499 list price. The battery-powered 1080p DLP projector offers 450 ISO lumens and can project images from about 40 to 200 inches, making it suited to darker rooms.
The Soundcore P30i wireless earbuds are now available on Amazon for $26.99, down from their $49.99 list price. That marks a 46% discount and puts the price just $2 above its historical low.
Amazon is currently selling Samsung's 34-inch Odyssey G5 curved gaming monitor for $150 off its usual price. The display features a 1000R curved VA panel with Ultra WQHD resolution (3440 x 1440), a 21:9 aspect ratio, up to 165Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, AMD FreeSync Premium, and HDR support.