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Chips & Infrastructure

Ring’s $249.99 drone camera will patrol homes from January

The Ring Drone Cam flies set routes inside a home when a sensor or alarm goes off. It ships in the US on January 27 and still needs approval from the US communications regulator. A $999.99 Rover Cam robot for businesses ships on December 16.

Amazon’s Ring launched Ring Robotics on November 10 with two devices: an indoor drone camera for homes and a wheeled security robot for businesses. Both use AI Pilot, a Ring system that relies on cloud processing to map a space and move around it.

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Chips & Infrastructure

Amazon plans more than €16bn for Germany in 2027

Amazon says €4.8 billion of it will expand its cloud data centres around Frankfurt. The total is a plan for one year, close to what Amazon says it spent in Germany in 2025.

Amazon says it will invest more than €16 billion in Germany in 2027, in cloud and AI data centres, warehouses, its Leo satellite internet and Prime Video shows. It announced the plan in Berlin at the government’s Invest in Germany Summit.

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Chips & Infrastructure

Amazon open-sources TorchNeuron to run PyTorch on Trainium

The tool lets PyTorch code run on Amazon’s own AI chips, and its public beta starts on October 20. Amazon says one setting is enough, but its own list of gaps shows that some code still needs work.

Amazon has released TorchNeuron, a tool that lets code written for PyTorch run on its Trainium2 and Trainium3 AI chips. It is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, and its public beta starts on October 20. Amazon says developers need only one setting and no rewrite.

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Chips & Infrastructure

Amazon’s Bee launches two AI recorders, from $74.99

The Bee Frontier goes on a wrist or clothing, and the Bee Eclipse sticks to the back of a phone. Both turn conversations into summaries and to-dos, and a Bee Pro plan costs $11.99 a month.

Bee, a maker of AI note-taking devices that Amazon bought in 2025, launched its first new products since then on October 15. The $74.99 Bee Frontier is on sale now at Amazon.com. The Bee Eclipse, from $99.99, comes “soon”. While switched on, both listen to conversations and turn them into summaries, reminders and to-dos.

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Safety & Security

One prompt could take over AWS AI agents, researchers say

Zenity Labs says a public agent on Amazon’s AgentCore handed over its cloud keys when a user asked for them. AWS says the research shows expected, documented behaviour, not a flaw.

Zenity Labs published research on October 8 showing that one chat message to a public AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore could reveal its temporary cloud keys. With them, the researchers say, an attacker could control every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. Zenity says AWS has since narrowed the default permissions.

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Chips & Infrastructure

Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets run Android with Google Play

The three tablets cost from $229.99 to $499.99 and have Alexa+ built in. They ship on October 14 in the US, Canada and Mexico, and reviewers see them as the successors to Amazon’s Fire tablets.

Amazon announced three Alexa Tablets on October 8: the 12 Pro at $499.99, the 11 at $329.99 and the 8 at $229.99. They run Android with the full Google Play Store, and Alexa+, Amazon’s newer AI assistant, is built in. They ship on October 14 in North America and on October 19 in five European countries.

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Chips & Infrastructure

Amazon says it has dropped NDAs with data centre officials

AWS’s chief wrote that the company no longer signs secrecy deals with the government agencies on its projects. The post does not say whether older agreements still apply.

“We no longer use nondisclosure agreements with the government agencies we work with on our projects,” AWS chief executive Matt Garman wrote on Amazon’s website. The same post pledged more than $1 billion over five years to data centre communities and promised yearly figures on energy and water use.

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Chips & Infrastructure

Amazon pledges $1 billion more to its data centre towns

The money over five years goes to job training, energy and water projects, and local priorities. AWS’s chief warns that more than 100 proposed moratoriums could cost the US the AI race.

Amazon said on October 2 that it will add more than $1 billion over the next five years to what it already spends in US communities that host its data centres. The programme, called Built Together, also comes with promises to stop using nondisclosure agreements with government agencies and to cover the energy costs its sites add.

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AI Models

Amazon releases a free, open rival to the Jev decision model

Strands Decider 2B picks one answer from a fixed list for AI agents and runs on a single graphics card. AWS’s own tests put it near the top of its size class; no outside test has compared it with Jev.

Strands Labs, a team at Amazon Web Services, released Strands Decider 2B on October 1, a small open-source model that makes choices for AI agents. It always picks one option from a fixed list and gives a confidence score, instead of writing text. The weights are on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 licence, and AWS says the code, training data and scripts are on GitHub.

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Agents & Apps

Amazon lets sellers manage their stores from Claude

It came days after Amazon blocked Meta’s shopping agent. Only two assistants can connect so far.

At its Accelerate event on September 23, Amazon released a beta plugin that lets US sellers manage their Amazon stores from Anthropic’s Claude or Amazon’s own Quick assistant. Sellers can check sales and stock, change prices, and update listings. Amazon says the seller approves every action.

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