Amazon Acquires AI wearables startup Bee

I bought a Bee and used it for two months. While the concept has potential, I didn’t find it particularly useful. It would present me with “facts” it believed it had learned about me from listening to my conversations, along with rough summaries of my entire day. Essentially, it was just telling me things I already knew and events I had experienced firsthand.

I can also see devices like this posing a significant security risk, as the Bee records all conversations without requiring consent. My employer doesn’t currently have any explicit policy about using AI devices like this, but I avoided bringing the Bee to work, assuming they wouldn’t be thrilled about it.