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When is October Prime Day 2025? This year, Amazon’s October Prime Day sale runs from October 7 to 8. The annual sale will last for two days in the fall, and you can expect to see a range of deals on household goods and electronics.Are Amazon Echo devices really cheaper on Prime Day? They often are! As it is Amazon’s own event, Prime Day deals always appear for Amazon-branded products, including the Echo device family. How did we choose these October Prime Day deals?ZDNET authors only write about deals that interest us personally and include products that we own, have tested, or want to buy. Our experts looked for deals that were at least 20% off (or are hardly ever on sale, as is often the case with Apple devices), using established price comparison tools and trackers to determine whether the deal actually represents value for your money. We also considered customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the deals we’re recommending. Our recommendations may also be based on our own testing — in addition to extensive research and comparison shopping. The goal is to deliver the most accurate advice to help you shop smarter during limited-time events.  More

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Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source<!–> on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Streaming service Disney+ has announced a price increase. Almost all plans are affected, including bundle options. The company has raised its prices every October for three years.  If you’re a Disney+ subscriber, you’ll be paying more soon, as another […] More

SweetBunFactory/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source<!–> on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Industries are undergoing a profound transformation as products, factories, and companies adopt autonomous machine models. Autonomous companies use AI agents to sense, understand, decide, and act with minimal human intervention. They adopt software-driven hardware, extended connections, wide contextual awareness, and continuous […] More

wildpixel/ iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source<!–> on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Google latest Frontier Safety Framework explores  It identifies three risk categories for AI. Despite risks, regulation remains slow.  One of the great ironies of the ongoing AI boom has been that as the technology becomes more technically […] More

Richard Drury/DigitalVision via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source<!–> on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways  Workers are using AI to create low-quality “workslop.”  Bosses have to pick up hours of slack to fix it, harming careers. AI ROI is still unclear for most workplaces. Workers are becoming overly reliant on AI. The result? Lackluster […] More