Amazon Buys Bee Ai Wearable That Listens To Everything You Say

Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI connected your wrist. Bee CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo says connected LinkedIn that nan institution is joining Amazon to thief “bring genuinely personal, agentic AI to moreover much customers.”

Bee makes a $49.99 Fitbit-like device that listens successful connected your conversations while utilizing AI to transcribe everything that you and nan group astir you say, allowing it to make personalized summaries of your days, reminders, and suggestions from wrong nan Bee app. You tin besides springiness nan instrumentality support to entree your emails, contacts, location, reminders, photos, and almanac events to thief pass its AI-generated insights, arsenic good arsenic create a searchable history of your activities. 

My workfellow Victoria Song got to effort retired nan instrumentality for herself and recovered that it didn’t ever get things rather right. It tended to confuse real-life conversations pinch nan TV shows, TikTok videos, music, and movies that it heard. When asked astir Amazon’s plans to use nan aforesaid privateness measures offered by Bee, specified arsenic its argumentation against storing audio, Amazon spokesperson Alexandra Miller says nan institution “cares deeply” astir customer privateness and security.

“We’ve been beardown stewards of customer information since our founding, and person ne'er been successful nan business of trading our customers’ individual accusation to others,” Miller says. “We creation our products to protect our customers’ privateness and information and to make it easy for them to beryllium successful power of their acquisition — and this attack would of people use to Bee.”

Miller besides notes that nan woody isn’t yet closed, and its position are “confidential.” All Bee labor person “received offers to subordinate Amazon.”