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With Strands Decider 2B, the Strands laboratory associated with AWS introduces a small open model specialized in one precise action: selecting an option and expressing a confidence level. This approach promises agents that are faster and less costly than those that rely on a large model for every decision, but it does not eliminate uncertainty or the need to verify choices.

Amazon is updating its entire Kindle family without pursuing a singular disruptive effect. Flush screens, faster opening times, improved Colorsoft displays, Kindle Click, and new accessories suggest an overall ecosystem strategy: reducing every minor friction point between opening a book and turning the next page.

Amazon blocked Meta's Muse, the company's new personal agent, when it attempted to make purchases on its platform. Amazon specifically objects to the assistant navigating without identifying itself as an automated agent and accessing customer account data without prior consent. For its part, Meta defends a highly isolated architecture. Underlying this technical disagreement is a larger question: who controls the relationship with the customer when shopping is delegated to artificial intelligence?

Amazon is preparing a new data center campus in Pecos County, Texas, which will be powered by significant on-site natural gas electricity generation. The GW Ranch project could reach 7.65 GW of capacity and has a permit allowing up to 33 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.