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A Brooklyn father of two used AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude to research and compare back-to-school products instead of manually checking retailer sites and online reviews. The AI consolidated his shopping list across multiple stores and even advised him on optimal timing to buy items at the lowest prices. Retail surveys indicate this behavior is becoming widespread among shoppers this school season.
Jim Cramer told CNBC viewers that most of the Magnificent Seven tech stocks—Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla and Nvidia—have underperformed the S&P 500 this year and now trade at unusually cheap valuations. He argued the group's earnings multiples have fallen out of step with their growth prospects, particularly Amazon, which he says is poised to benefit from heavy AI infrastructure spending under CEO Andy Jassy.
Amazon is currently selling the unlocked 128GB Samsung Galaxy S26 FE for $699.99 with a free $200 Amazon gift card included. The device is Samsung's new lower-cost Fan Edition phone, available in Graphite, Pistachio, and Blueberry, and comes with Galaxy AI features and Samsung ecosystem support. The promotion is expected to end once the phone officially launches tomorrow.
The Verbatim Pocket 1TB portable SSD is currently discounted to $139.99 on Amazon, down 22% from its $179.99 list price. The drive supports USB 3.2 Gen 2 speeds up to 1000 MB/s, is bus-powered, and comes with a keyring, cable holder, and USB-C cable in a compact, pocketable design.
Amazon is running a Labor Day sales event through Monday, September 7, 2026, offering discounts of up to 46% across PC hardware categories. Deals span SSDs, gaming monitors, laptops, headsets, keyboards, mice, webcams and networking gear like mesh routers and switches.
Best Buy and Amazon are both selling Samsung's Q990F soundbar bundle for $999.99, down from its usual $1,300 to $1,600 price range. The package includes a 48.5-inch 11.1.4-channel soundbar, a wireless subwoofer, and two wireless rear speakers.
Amazon-owned Zoox has extended its paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas to include Harry Reid International Airport, with rides starting Thursday. The company says its vehicles will pick up and drop off passengers near baggage claim at both terminals, unlike Uber and Lyft, whose pickup points require a longer walk to a parking garage.
Amazon has discounted the TP-Link Litewave LS1005G, a 5-port unmanaged gigabit Ethernet switch, to $9.98 for a limited time. The compact, fanless device adds four extra wired ports to an existing router setup without any configuration required.
A community poll of over 2,100 respondents found that more than 70% of Kindle users have either already moved to rivals like Kobo or Boox, or plan to switch on their next upgrade, following Amazon's August update that closed a Libby lending loophole and tightened DRM restrictions on the Kindle Oasis. About 33% said they've already switched, while 37.7% said they intend to leave Amazon's ecosystem for a future device.
Anthropic has launched a developer blueprint that provides pre-built harnesses, patterns and guardrails for creating AI shopping and merchant agents using Claude. The kit includes reference implementations for retail, travel, telecom and ticketing use cases, plus a Claude Code plugin, and deploys across Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Partners such as Accenture, Mastercard and Visa are collaborating to help merchants adopt the framework ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Amazon has increased prices by $20 to $100 across several of its hardware lines, including Kindle e-readers, Echo speakers, Eero routers and Fire TV devices, with the steepest hikes hitting its cheaper, best-selling models. An Amazon spokesperson told CNET the increases stem from rising memory and storage component costs, though Amazon would not comment directly to WIRED. Notably, the pricier Kindle Scribe lineup was left untouched despite using similar components.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time speech-to-text model that streams transcription, detects sentence endpoints, and identifies more than 20 distinct speakers without a separate processing step. Trained on over 70 languages (25 thoroughly validated), the model handles long recordings beyond an hour and supports code-switching between languages, all offered via API at $0.18 per hour of audio.