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Amazon’s About You page lists the conclusions its personalization model has drawn from your purchases, searches and Alexa conversations, and people are finding entries about their family, their diet and their body. It went live in May. Here is exactly where to find yours, what feeds it, what you can delete, and the one thing you cannot switch off.

Amazon has confirmed that its Linux-based Vega OS exists to stop piracy on Fire TV Sticks. Android apps cannot run, sideloading is gone for good, and the app catalog dropped from over 30,000 to roughly 1,257.

A federal court rewrote Amazon’s FTC settlement payout in September, lifting the per customer cap from $51 to $200. From October 1, automatic payments start reaching people who used 11 to 20 Prime benefits in a year, a group left out of every earlier round.

At Amazon Accelerate, the company opened Seller Central’s APIs to outside AI agents, letting sellers manage inventory, pricing and listings through Claude or its own Quick assistant with no dashboard required. Amazon built a genuinely open agent surface for the seller side of the business, then drew a hard line at the one place agents still can’t go: the storefront a shopper actually sees.

Amazon’s new lip sync feature keeps human dub actors and uses AI to move the on-screen performer’s mouth to match them. It debuts on Maxton Hall, and it quietly crosses a line dubbing has respected for ninety years.

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the 21 year old platform Jeff Bezos once called “artificial artificial intelligence.” Here is why it is closing now, and who is already replacing it.

Amazon says Prime Air will reach nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold jump from seven states today. The drone carries five pounds and flies about 7.5 miles, which explains a lot about what will actually show up in your yard.

404 Media hid an Apple AirTag inside a bulk order of roughly 1,000 secondhand books and followed the shipment across four states. It stopped at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, at a unit whose job is to cut the spines off books, scan the loose pages for AI training, and throw the originals away.

Amazon’s planned Pecos County data center comes with its own 35-turbine gas plant, permitted to release 33 million tons of CO2 a year. That is roughly double the emissions of the dirtiest power plant currently running in the United States.

What Ring’s Search Party feature does, why its Super Bowl ad caused a privacy backlash, what changed since, and how to switch it off.