{"id":188982,"date":"2025-10-04T06:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188982\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:44:03","slug":"new-kindle-ring-echo-and-scribe-devices-announced-all-powered-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188982\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kindle, Ring, Echo and Scribe devices announced, all powered by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online juggernaut Amazon has unveiled the next generation of its Kindle, Ring and Echo devices, among other items, all of which are powered by artificial intelligence and connected to Alexa+, its AI-infused personal assistant, which debuted in February.<\/p>\n

The line-up, announced at a presentation in New York, includes new cameras for its Ring video monitoring device, with a new AI facial recognition<\/a> feature that notifies users of who is at the front door.<\/p>\n

Amazon unveiled four new Echo devices revamped with Alexa+ that serve up personalised insights like whether the user left the front door unlocked after midnight. The US company also announced a series of Fire TVs infused with Alexa+ that offer more personalised searches, like finding a specific scene in a movie or getting commentary about last night\u2019s sports game.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s presentation was the first big product event for Panos Panay, who joined Amazon in 2023 to head the company\u2019s devices and services unit after a 19-year career at Microsoft, where he served as its chief product officer.<\/p>\n

\"PanosPanos Panay speaks during the Amazon product event in New York on September 30, 2025. Photo: AP<\/p>\n

Panay told the audience of several hundred journalists and bloggers that Alexa+ and artificial intelligence are allowing technology to work \u201cin the background when you don\u2019t\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Online juggernaut Amazon has unveiled the next generation of its Kindle, Ring and Echo devices, among other items,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20820,971,94623,94621,94622,1572,276,49,48,94628,94626,94625,94627,94630,192,1575,94629,94624,63,61],"class_list":["post-188982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-echo","tag-amazon-kindle","tag-amazon-ring","tag-apple","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-echo-dot-max","tag-echo-show-11","tag-echo-show-8","tag-echo-studio","tag-fire-tvs","tag-google","tag-iphone","tag-kindle-scribe","tag-kindle-scribes","tag-microsoft","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}