Amazon's Echo Show 8 offers spatial audio and a dynamic, proximity-based UI

Amazon debuted an updated Echo Show 8 during its live event today, highlighting the device's new display, camera, microphones and spatial-audio capabilities. Generative AI helps the Echo Show 8 respond dynamically to the user's position in the physical world, offering different displays depending on how far away someone is from the screen. A new language model increases the device's on-board Alexa response time by 40 percent over the previous edition. The Echo Show 8 costs $149.99 and is available for pre-order today. The device will hit the market and start shipping in October.