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Amazon is playing a quiet game ahead of the holidays. The company has raised prices on Kindles, Echo speakers, Eero routers, and Fire TV devices — setting a higher baseline so that future discounts look more dramatic than they actually are. It's an old retail trick, now dressed in tech.
Shifting to the AI hardware race, enterprise buyers are signaling a meaningful shift away from Nvidia. A VentureBeat survey of one hundred seventy AI infrastructure decision-makers found that nearly forty percent plan to evaluate non-Nvidia chips — from AMD and Google to AWS and Intel — compared to about twenty-five percent eyeing Nvidia's next generation. That's a fourteen-point gap that Nvidia's competitors will be eager to widen.
And Meta is making a push into real-time audio with Muse Voice Transcribe, a streaming speech-to-text model that handles diarization for more than twenty simultaneous speakers. At just eighteen cents per hour of processed audio, it's priced to attract enterprise customers in a market that's getting crowded fast.
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