Amazon unveils new Bee AI devices for conversation recording

Amazon wants to be in the room for your next conversation. Literally. On October 15, 2026, the company unveiled two new devices from Bee, the AI wearable startup it acquired in July 2025. The Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse both listen to conversations, transcribe them, and hand back summaries and to-do lists. Two gadgets, one job The Frontier is the wearable of the pair. It can sit on your wrist or clip onto clothing, and it costs $74.99. The Eclipse takes a different approach. It is a recorder roughly the size of a credit card that attaches to a smartphone, priced at $99.99. Both rely on built-in microphones to capture audio. A companion app then transcribes what was said in real time. From there, the software chops conversations into segments and generates summaries, insights, and action items. Privacy is the obvious question with any device designed to listen all day. Amazon’s answer is that the devices discard raw audio files rather than storing them. What gets kept are the insights and whatever data users have given permission to retain. Amazon is also emphasizing recording features that stay under user control. The devices support up to 40 languages. The Frontier ships in Onyx,...