Amazon is acquiring an AI wearable that listens to everything you do

Amazon is acquiring a startup called Bee, which makes a wearable and an Apple Watch app that can record everything the wearer says. Bee presents its platform as a personalized AI assistant that passively learns from its wearer by listening to all of their conversations and activities. While the wearable does have a button to mute recording, it can theoretically observe every single thing the owner does or say. The app can then summarize daily activities, suggest to-do items or recall previously discussed details. Amazon's acquisition of Bee is part of the company's move in the AI space. The AI angle of Bee may be of particular interest for Amazon, especially as the company pushes its Alexa+ generative AI assistant. The always-listening aspect of Bee also harkens back to Amazon's privacy debacle of a few years back when it had to address concerns that employees were reviewing conversations recorded by Alexa, including some recorded by accident.