Some of Amazon's Q3 2026 announcements, from new devices to AI breakthroughs

• New frontier models joined Amazon Bedrock, including OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Haiku 5.5, xAI's Grok 4.7, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, and Z.ai's GLM 5.3, giving customers a wide selection of leading frontier and open-weight models.
• Amazon announced TorchNeuron, it's making it even simpler for AI developers to adopt Trainium. Today, 85% of AI researchers and developers write their code in PyTorch. TorchNeuron lets these developers run their existing AI code on Trainium chips with no rewrite needed, reducing the friction to adopt new hardware.

• Almost every company is concerned about security right now. Amazon made AWS Continuum generally available, an AI-powered security service that automatically discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates software vulnerabilities at machine speed, addressing a critical challenge as AI-generated code grows faster than security teams can review it. With Continuum and AWS Dogwood, an open-source governance and authorization policy language that controls and verifies AI agent behaviors, AWS continues making big investments in AI security.
• Amazon committed more than $1 billion over the next five years to data center communities through the Built Together investment framework for use across education, job training, energy affordability, water and energy preservation, and local priorities. Amazon also committed $500 million to student cloud and AI training.

• Amazon announced new ways to help customers save on the things that matter most-from everyday low prices across groceries and essentials to $0.20 per gallon fuel savings for Prime members every Friday this holiday season. Amazon also introduced affordable GLP-1 weight-management care options across 48 states and Washington, D.C., and expanded Amazon Pharmacy's offerings with a complete end-to-end Spanish-language experience, including 24/7 access to pharmacists and prescription documentation in Spanish.

• Amazon introduced new AI technologies for advertising customers, streamlining the buying and creation experience with Amazon Ads Agent. Full-Funnel Campaigns brings sponsored ads, display, video, and streaming TV into a single campaign. Advertisers provide a few inputs-like budget and duration-and Amazon's AI plans, executes, and continuously optimizes the rest, including TV-quality video and display images built from existing product pages.
• Amazon Leo has nearly 400 satellites in orbit and has built more than 1,000 satellites at Kirkland, Washington facility. Amazon also announced new Arianespace launches (expanding the largest commercial contract in Arianespace history) to bring satellites, including those built by Career Choice graduates, into orbit.

• Amazon introduced new devices in time for the holiday season, including the new AI wearable: Bee, a new lineup of tablets designed just for kids, the powerful Alexa tablet with Alexa+ built right in, and a completely redesigned Kindle family. Amazon also introduced a whole new range of devices for the home, including a new Ring Smart Lock, a new lineup of Ring cameras, and a new line of indoor and long-range outdoor cameras from Blink.

• Thursday Night Football is back on Prime Video, along with Carrie, a new season of The Terminal List, and more. Amazon is also bringing visual dubbing, using AI and VFX, to the new season of Maxton Hall, out December 9.
• Amazon is investing $1.9 billion in the Delivery Service Partner program in 2027, bringing the total investment in the Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program to $21.7 billion over eight years. The investment is helping DSPs increase Delivery Associate pay while improving and expanding the use of safety and AI-powered technologies that are enhancing Delivery Associates' day-to-day experience and improving the delivery experience for customers.

• Hourly minimum starting pay for full-time core operations employees increased to $20 per hour, with hourly average pay reaching nearly $24 per hour. Amazon also announced a new grocery benefit for all employees, as well as access to a banking benefit, making everyday life more affordable for its teammates.
• For Amazon sellers, there's a new lineup of tools and services to help them launch and scale globally from day one. The Seller Assistant tool uses AI to automate routine tasks like monitoring, restocking, and price adjustments, and a new plugin brings Seller Assistant's intelligence into the AI tools sellers already use, launching first with Amazon Quick and in beta with Anthropic's Claude. Seller Central now connects sales across Amazon, eBay, Shopify, TikTok, and Walmart. Merchants can also add fast, free Prime delivery to their own website and save up to 25% on fulfillment fees with Amazon Supply Chain Services.

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