Jay Peters
Here’s Spider Noir.
Amazon showed off a first image of Nicolas Cage as the live-action Spider Noir for the upcoming Prime Video and MGM Plus TV show. A premiere date hasn’t been shared yet.
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Wes Davis
Sat Deploy.mp4.
In a video posted by the Amazon Project Kuiper LinkedIn account, we see what Ars Technica calls the first look at the low-Earth orbit satellites Amazon launched earlier this week to face off with Starlink.
Ars draws some conclusions about them based on the fuzzy video, noting that their trapezoidal design is comparable to SpaceX competitor Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellites.
Jay Peters
Jeff Bezos is set to sell billions in Amazon stock.
He is planning to sell up to 25,000,000 Amazon shares over a period ending May 29th, 2026, according to an SEC filing. (Perfect timing to be able to afford GTA VI.) The shares are worth up to $4.75 billion, The Guardian reports.
Jeff Bezos to sell up to $4.75bn in Amazon stock over next year
[theguardian.com]
Jay Peters
Alexa Plus now has more than 100,000 users.
CEO Andy Jassy shared the stat on today’s earnings call, reports TechCrunch. Given how many Alexa-enabled devices are out there, though, that’s still probably a pretty low number, relatively.
The AI-powered assistant officially launched to a “small number” of customers at the end of March.
Amazon CEO says 100,000 users now have Alexa+ | TechCrunch
[techcrunch.com]
Dominic Preston
Amazon’s newest Nova.
The company is busy building its lineup of Nova AI models, which includes video and voice generation and an agentic shopping tool. The latest launch is Premier — first teased when the Nova line made its debut — and it’s the most powerful yet, though it’s not a reasoning model. Instead, it’s designed for multistep tasks and training other models via distillation.
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