Amazon is giving its Echo Hub a major refresh, making the smart home control panel feel a lot more useful than before. The biggest changes aren’t what you’d expect.

Amazon’s rolling out a free software update for Echo Hub devices that gives the homescreen a much-needed update to the interface it launched with in 2024. It had already added Alex Plus AI support, but the new interface has a cleaner, fully customizable layout that fits more smart home info and controls on the screen […]

Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon’s own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time. With concerns about water consumption and energy use a focus of new AI data center construction debates, Amazon says its global data center operations […]
Amazon has launched Sleep Studio, a new feature for Echo Kids devices that automates bedtime routines with curated sleep content.
The most affordable Kindle Scribe is finally on sale at $429.99, and Amazon has also launched the new Story So Far AI reading feature on all modern Kindles.
As AI spending continues to climb, the e-commerce giant has taken out a fresh $17.5 billion loan from a small coterie of banks.

Amazon has launched a new feature for its Echo and Echo Kids smart speakers called Sleep Studio that’s designed to make the daily transition to bedtime more enticing for kids and less stressful for parents and caregivers. The feature uses a combination of bedtime stories, relaxing sounds, and guided meditations along with scheduling and customization […]

Amazon is deepening its UK investment, putting more than £1bn into two sites in Northamptonshire and adding over 4,000 jobs in one of the largest single-county commitments of its £40bn UK programme. The company has opened a £500M fulfilment centre in N…