{"id":12815,"date":"2025-07-23T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12815"},"modified":"2025-08-03T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T15:28:16","slug":"amazon-buys-bee-ai-wearable-that-listens-to-everything-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/amazon-buys-bee-ai-wearable-that-listens-to-everything-you-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Buys Bee AI Wearable That Listens to Everything You Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is just a spying device. The interesting part is that the AI isn’t very good and confuses TV with real life. So be careful what you watch, or you might SWAT yourself. Also notice that you can give access to your computer to the AI agent, which is exactly the AI future warned about by The Hated One<\/a> I highlighted yesterday. And something to consider, if you take precautions to protect your privacy, how will that be undermined by all the idiots around you with similar devices who have enabled this spying technology on their person? And you’d have to think this will become a huge corporate espionage technology, to both protect and steal information. I’m reminded of all the Boeing whistleblowers that “committed suicide”, which was an incredible display of power to kill and cover it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/711621\/amazon-bee-ai-wearable-acquisition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Bee is a Fitbit-like device that transcribes your conversations and serves up daily summaries.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Emma Roth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI on your wrist. Bee CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo says on LinkedIn<\/a> that the company is joining Amazon to help \u201cbring truly personal, agentic AI to even more customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee makes a $49.99 Fitbit-like device<\/a> that listens in on your conversations while using AI to transcribe everything that you and the people around you say, allowing it to generate personalized summaries of your days, reminders, and suggestions from within the Bee app. You can also give the device permission to access your emails, contacts, location, reminders, photos, and calendar events to help inform its AI-generated insights, as well as create a searchable history of your activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My colleague Victoria Song got to try out the device for herself<\/a> and found that it didn\u2019t always get things quite right. It tended to confuse real-life conversations with the TV shows, TikTok videos, music, and movies that it heard. When asked about Amazon\u2019s plans to apply the same privacy measures offered by Bee, such as its policy against storing audio, Amazon spokesperson Alexandra Miller says the company \u201ccares deeply\u201d about customer privacy and security, adding that the company will work with Bee to give users \u201ceven greater control over\u201d their devices when the deal closes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been strong stewards of customer data since our founding, and have never been in the business of selling our customers\u2019 personal information to others,\u201d Miller says. \u201cWe design our products to protect our customers\u2019 privacy and security and to make it easy for them to be in control of their experience \u2014 and this approach would of course apply to Bee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller also says the terms of the deal are \u201cconfidential,\u201d and all Bee employees have \u201creceived offers to join Amazon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is just a spying device. The interesting part is that the AI isn’t very good and confuses TV with real life. So be careful what you watch, or you might SWAT yourself. Also notice that you can give access to your computer to the AI agent, which is exactly the AI future warned about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12928,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions\/12928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}