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Amazon has launched Sleep Studio for its Echo and Echo Kids speakers, offering bedtime stories, relaxing sounds, and guided meditations to help children wind down and sleep, available via an Amazon Kids Plus subscription.

The Amazon Ember Artline is a stylish art television that offers moving artwork, AI-generated images that match room colors, and motion-sensing power saving, but suffers from lower contrast compared to the Samsung Frame Pro.

Amazon is expanding its print-on-demand service to allow shoppers to generate AI designs using Alexa for Shopping, then print them on products like t-shirts and hoodies.

Amazon launches a feature in its Shopping app that lets users design custom merchandise using AI prompts via Alexa, then order print-on-demand items through Amazon's Merch on Demand service.

Wired's updated 2026 guide to the best smart speakers across Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri ecosystems, highlighting top picks like the Amazon Echo Dot Max, Google Nest Hub Max, Google Nest Audio, and Apple HomePod Mini.

Wired reviews four best Alexa speakers and smart displays for 2026, highlighting the Echo Show 11 as the top smart display and the Echo Show 8 (3rd gen) as the best affordable option, with mentions of ads and speaker quality trade-offs.

Amazon announces a new Alexa+ feature called Alexa Podcasts that generates podcast episodes on any topic using AI, with options to customize length and tone, narrated by AI host voices.