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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(126,535 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:18 PM Jul 22

Amazon to acquire AI device startup that listens to your conversations

Amazon is acquiring Bee, a wearable listening device that uses artificial intelligence to collect, process and sort data in its users' lives.

Bee CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo, who announced the deal on LinkedIn, said the Seattle tech giant will help bring its “truly personal, agentic AI to even more customers.”

“What began as a dream with an incredible team and community now finds a new home at Amazon,” she wrote.

The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. An Amazon spokesperson said the deal is signed but not yet closed, adding that it was too early to talk about plans for the San Francisco-based startup.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/07/22/amazon-acquires-bee-ai-listening-wearable.html

No thanks, I'll pass.

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Amazon to acquire AI device startup that listens to your conversations (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 22 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 22 #1
the only "dream" I see is the one where they will make a lot of money no matter what the outcome nt msongs Jul 22 #2
Cool 😎... anciano Jul 22 #3
Spoken as a true AI chatbot. Think. Again. Jul 22 #6
That sounds like something an AI would say. hunter Jul 22 #8
"HEY!!! I told you i don't want any heroin!!!" ret5hd Jul 22 #4
Oh, I'm sure law enforcement agencies already have a contract with amazon. Think. Again. Jul 22 #7
I guess the "wearable device" is just a microphone and a chip with the AI software... Think. Again. Jul 22 #5
Maybe this would happen to Amazon Blue Full Moon Jul 23 #9

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

msongs

(71,886 posts)
2. the only "dream" I see is the one where they will make a lot of money no matter what the outcome nt
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:29 PM
Jul 22

anciano

(1,910 posts)
3. Cool 😎...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:44 PM
Jul 22

AI is a defining technology of our time that will continue to revolutionize modern life.

hunter

(39,718 posts)
8. That sounds like something an AI would say.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:23 PM
Jul 22

I'm some kind of Luddite. I reject and resists most of these revolutionizations of modern life.

All these so-called innovations, so shiny and bright on the surface, are cheap plastic and dull grey metal beneath the surface.

And none of it seems to make people any brighter.

ret5hd

(21,646 posts)
4. "HEY!!! I told you i don't want any heroin!!!"
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:52 PM
Jul 22

“Quit trying to sell me meth!!!”

oh, i see lots of fun when i start seeing people wearing these.

 

Think. Again.

(22,456 posts)
5. I guess the "wearable device" is just a microphone and a chip with the AI software...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:10 PM
Jul 22

...but the scary part is that this AI software will probably find it's way onto a lot of other devices besides the wearable one, like the Alexa in your home, or even cell phones, possibly our laptop operating systems too.

Basically, rather than just collecting this data and have to analyze it later, they've written software to analyze it all in real time as it's recorded, then store the data and the analysis so they can use it as they wish, whenever they wish.

Instead of just selling our raw data to advertisers, product retailers, airlines, etc, which the buyer then has to analyze (see link below), they can now sell the complete package for a higher premium.

Outrage Grows as Delta to Price Tickets Based on What AI Thinks You'll Pay : https://www.newsweek.com/senators-want-answers-delta-ai-powered-pricing-plan-2102358

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