{"id":59316,"date":"2025-10-04T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/59316\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:40:08","slug":"new-kindle-ring-echo-and-scribe-devices-announced-all-powered-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/59316\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kindle, Ring, Echo and Scribe devices announced, all powered by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p>The line-up, announced at a presentation in New York, includes new cameras for its Ring video monitoring device, with a new <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3292062\/hong-kong-launches-facial-recognition-tech-entry-street-border-town?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI facial recognition<\/a> feature that notifies users of who is at the front door.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Panos Panay speaks during the Amazon product event in New York on September 30, 2025. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4bedda59-565c-436e-9653-8ae5a61817d1_2d7d755d.jpg\" title=\"Panos Panay speaks during the Amazon product event in New York on September 30, 2025. Photo: AP\"\/>Panos Panay speaks during the Amazon product event in New York on September 30, 2025. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4193,414,49070,49068,49069,351,363,49075,49073,49072,49074,49077,367,353,49076,49071,609,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-59316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-alexa","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-amazon-echo","11":"tag-amazon-kindle","12":"tag-amazon-ring","13":"tag-apple","14":"tag-artificial-intelligence","15":"tag-echo-dot-max","16":"tag-echo-show-11","17":"tag-echo-show-8","18":"tag-echo-studio","19":"tag-fire-tvs","20":"tag-google","21":"tag-iphone","22":"tag-kindle-scribe","23":"tag-kindle-scribes","24":"tag-microsoft","25":"tag-new-zealand","26":"tag-newzealand","27":"tag-nz","28":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}