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The service is back with another yearly recap, and this time, it will create a personalized festival poster based on your most-played artists, tracks, and genres, while displaying other insights. You can find your recap by opening the Amazon Music app, tapping Library, and selecting “2025 Delivered.”

Following two Amazon drone crashes in Arizona last month, the FAA is investigating another incident in Waco, Texas, according to CNBC. After delivering a package the drone “got tangled in a nearby internet cable” before shearing the wire and performing a “safe contingent landing.” There were no injuries or widespread internet outages.

The infrastructure buildout will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity for AI and cost up to $50 billion, the company said. US government customers will have access to both AWS Trainium AI chips and NVIDIA chips, and Amazon said it plans to start building the data centers in 2026.

It’s the first international expansion of Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered Alexa, which launched first in the US. Amazon plans to invite “tens of thousands of Canadians every week to enjoy the new experience,” according to a blog post.

The new trailer for Amazon MGM’s adaptation of Alex Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary teases a bit more of the catastrophe that’s imperiling Earth, but it’s mostly about the friendship that’s going to develop between astronaut Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) and an alien that looks like a pile of rocks.

“We’ve parted ways with just under 30 team members across various departments and projects as we restructure the company and business for our next generation,” the studio wrote in a LinkedIn post.

Lucy and the Ghoul have started warming up to each other in the new trailer season two of Amazon’s Fallout series. And the duo’s hunt for Lucy’s father, Hank has them trekking to a very bleak and mutant-filled New Vegas.

The new feature is coming first to Canada, allowing users to connect and share music with like-minded fans across genres like rock, country, and K-pop. In Fan Groups, users can join or create chat threads, as well as save recommendations from others.

We’ve been waiting for BMW’s next-gen voice assistant for a while now. The custom Alexa voice assistant for was initially announced in 2022, but progress has been slow in an attempt to build it around Amazon’s more capable LLM-powered Alexa Plus. Now BMW and Amazon say that customers will be able to experience it “soon.” How soon? We don’t know! Which models? Unclear!

Friend of The Verge Casey Newton has some thoughts on the Amazon v. Perplexity web browser battle about AI agents: Perplexity wants to encourage people to use their agents in order to build its own business, but this screws basically every business that runs on web pages, including Amazon. (Humans can look at ads, sign up for newsletters, engage in curiosity-oriented browsing, etc.) Perplexity is a known bad actor. I hope Jeff Bezos eats them alive.

The WSJ highlights this shift, which has brought Pepsi-retrieving robots to one Whole Foods store and will soon turn the grocery chain’s corporate workers into Amazon employees.

Spotify hasn’t launched a native app for Amazon’s new Vega OS yet, so Amazon built a clunky workaround for the first Fire TV stick running Vega.

The “Boximus” avatars are for Yuga Labs’ Otherside metaverse, and they cost $65.99 each while they were available. If you’re really disappointed you missed out on a chance to own a digital, anthropomorphized Amazon box, you can buy one on the resale market.