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Amazon deal of the day: The Sony WF-C700N noise-cancelling earbuds are under $80 again

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Check out the best Amazon deals of the day as of April 7:


BEST TABLET FOR KIDS DEAL

Amazon Fire 7 Kids

$59.99
(save $40)

Amazon Fire 7 Kids tablet


BEST HOME DEAL

Google Nest Cam

$129.98
(save $50.01)

Google Nest Cam


BEST TABLET DEAL

Amazon Fire Max 11

$184.99
(save $45)

Amazon Fire Max 11 tablet


BEST TOY DEAL

Toniebox in pink with playtime puppy

Now that Amazon's Big Spring Sale has passed, there's not another major sale at the mega retailer until Prime Day, which typically falls in July. Fortunately, we're still keeping our eyes peeled for discounts in the months in between. There's always deals floating around at Amazon — you just have to poke around to find them.

We've done some digging for you — here are our top picks for the best Amazon deals of the day on April 7. If none of these are catching your eye, be sure to check back tomorrow as we select a whole new round of deals.

Our top pick: Sony WF-C700N noise-cancelling earbuds


Sony WF-C700N

Credit: Sony

You don't have to spend a fortune to get a decent pair of noise-cancelling earbuds. Case in point: the Sony WF-C700N are back down to just $78 at Amazon (their lowest price on record) and offer all the essentials. Our sister site PCMag (also owned by Ziff Davis) tested them out and dubbed them a "low-cost entry in the company’s lineup that produce robust bass and work with a useful app that offers EQ." While the noise cancellation is effective, they note that it largely depends on how you position them in your ears. Regardless, for a fraction of the price of other noise-cancelling buds, it's hard to complain.

Amazon Fire 7 Kids


Amazon Fire 7 Kids tablet

Credit: Amazon


Amazon Fire 7 Kids

$59.99
at Amazon

$99.99
Save $40.00



If you want to get a tablet for your preschooler, we highly recommend the Amazon Fire 7 Kids. It's a durable first device with a rubbery case that can withstand drops and spills. Plus it's packed with parental controls. Parents can customize screen time limits, age filters, access access to specific apps, and schedules. It comes with six months of Amazon Kids+ for free, which unlocks access to over 20,000 kid-appropriate apps, and a two-year worry-free guarantee. While it doesn't have an HD screen like other Amazon tablets, we highly doubt your 4-year-old will care. It's back on sale for just $59.99 as of April 7. That's 40% in savings.

Google Nest Cam


Google Nest Cam

Credit: Google


Google Nest Cam

$129.98
at Amazon

$179.99
Save $50.01



Thanks to two-way audio, motion and sound detection, mobile and email alerts, and built-in intelligence that can decipher between a person, vehicle, or animal, the Google Nest Cam is one of our favorite security cameras on the market. The slick, waterproof build allows it to work inside or outside to catch 24/7 live HD video with 6x digital zoom. It'll basically work as your eyes and ears when you're away or asleep. It usually costs $179.99, but it's down to just $129.98 as of April 7. That's 28% in savings and its lowest price so far this year.

Amazon Fire Max 11 tablet


Amazon Fire Max 11 tablet

Credit: Amazon


Amazon Fire Max 11

$184.99
at Amazon

$229.99
Save $45



Amazon's best iPad competitor, the Fire Max 11 tablet boasts a crisp 11-inch display (the largest Fire tablet you can get), 8MP cameras that support 1080p video, 14-hour battery life, an upgraded octa-core processor, and WiFi 6 compatibility. And as our reviewer points out, it's also "blazing fast, making it a good alternative to pricier tablets for streaming and games." It typically would run you $229.99, but as of April 7, it's back down to $184.99. That's 20% in savings.

Check out our full review of the Amazon Fire Max 11 tablet.

Toniebox Audio Player Starter Set


Toniebox in pink with playtime puppy

Credit: Tonie

One of the top toys of the holiday season last year is on sale for 30% off at Amazon. Grab the Toniebox Starter Set in any color variety for just $69.99 instead of $99.99 at of April 7. Designed for screen-free listening and play, the Toniebox inspires kids' imaginations with bedtime stories, music, and education. The Starter Set include a Playtime Puppy Tonie, which plays 52 minutes of popular traditional children's songs for playtime.

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Stop your AI subscriptions and get an all-in-one tool for life

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TL;DR: Access dozens of top AI tools in one platform — 1min.AI bundles content, chat, design, audio, video, PDF, and more under a single lifetime license for just $79.97.



1min.AI Advanced Business Plan Lifetime Subscription

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One of the bigger annoyances of the digital age is the subscription model. Juggling a half-dozen AI tools, each with its own login credentials, pricing tiers, and learning curve, is exhausting. That’s why 1min.AI can be a helpful alternative to the usual chaos.

It’s like your favorite productivity cheat code — an all-in-one platform that brings together top-tier AI features for writing, design, video, audio, and more under a single dashboard. And you can get a lifetime subscription to the Advanced Business Plan for just $79.97 (down from the MSRP of $540) — with no recurring fees, ever.

Need blog posts written in your brand voice? Check. Want to generate YouTube thumbnails, edit PDFs with AI, or even clean up audio? Covered. From chatting with advanced models like GPT-4o and Claude 3 to turning PDFs into summaries, translating audio, or batch-generating marketing copy, 1min.AI does it fast — like, one-minute fast. That’s the whole point.

Whether you’re a solo creator or running a small team, 1min.AI simplifies your stack. You’ll have access to multiple flagship models like GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama, plus unlimited brand voice slots, unlimited prompt storage, and 4,000,000 credits/month to spend on whatever you want to make.

If you’re tired of managing a spreadsheet of AI tools (we’ve been there), this is your chance to condense it all into one slick, ever-evolving platform — without the subscription guilt of drain.

Get lifetime access to the 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan for just $79.97 while you can and streamline your digital tools forever.

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Anthropic reportedly cut OpenAI access to Claude

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It seems OpenAI has been caught with its hands in the proverbial cookie jar. Anthropic has reportedly cut off OpenAI’s access to Anthropic’s APIs over what Anthropic is calling a terms of service breach.

As reported by Wired, multiple sources claim that OpenAI has been cut off from Anthropic’s APIs. Allegedly, OpenAI was using Anthropic’s Claude Code to assist in creating and testing OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5, which is due to release in August.

According to these sources, OpenAI was plugging into Claude’s internal tools instead of using the chat interface. From there, they used the API to run tests against GPT-5 to check things like coding and creative writing against Claude to compare performance. OpenAI allegedly also tested safety prompts related to things like CSAM, self-harm, and defamation. This would give OpenAI data that it could then use to fine-tune GPT-5 to make it more competitive against Claude.

Unfortunately for OpenAI, this violates Anthropic’s commercial terms of service, which ban companies from using Anthropic’s tools to build competitor AI products.

“Customer may not and must not attempt to access the Services to build a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models or resell the Services except as expressly approved by Anthropic,” the terms read.

OpenAI responded by saying that what the company was doing was an industry standard, as all the AI companies test their models against the competing models. The company then went on to say that it respected Anthropic’s decision but expressed disappointment in having its API access shut off, especially considering that Anthropic’s access to OpenAI’s API remains open.

A spokesperson told Wired that OpenAI’s access would be reinstated for “benchmarking and safety evaluations.”

It’s not the first time this year that Anthropic has cut off API access. In June, the company cut off Windsurf’s API access after rumors that it was being sold to OpenAI. That deal ultimately fell through, but Anthropic’s cofounder, Jared Kaplan, told TechCrunch at the time that “it would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI.”

Anthropic has also tweaked its rate limits for Claude, which will take effect in late August, with one of the reasons being that a small number of users are violating the company’s policy by sharing and reselling accounts.


Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

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Amazon is toying around with putting ads in Alexa+

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It’s the end of another quarter, which means it’s time for yet another earnings call with concerning ideas for generating more revenue. This time around, it's Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who told shareholders on Thursday that there’s “significant financial opportunity” in delivering ads through Alexa+, the company’s new AI-powered voice assistant.

“I think over time, there will be opportunities, you know, as people are engaging in more multi-turn conversations to have advertising play a role — to help people find discovery and also as a lever to drive revenue,” Jassy said, per the investor call transcript.

Since launching earlier this year, Alexa+ has reportedly reached millions of users. Unlike the original Alexa, which mostly turns off lights and sets timers, Alexa+ is designed to be more conversational, context-aware, and AI-driven. It can help you plan your date night, entertain your kids, and even dabble in basic image and video generation — all under the banner of your $14.99/month Prime subscription.

But so far, Amazon Alexa has been an ad-free experience. It's also more than 10 years old, and it doesn't make money; thus, it's been deemed a "colossal failure" by those within the company.

Of course, Amazon isn’t alone in trying to figure out how to make AI pay for itself. Both Google and OpenAI have explored ad integration in their AI products as a way to generate revenue. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in particular, has made a notable pivot: once firmly against advertising in his chatbot, he’s since reversed course, possibly opening the door for ads in future versions of ChatGPT.

Whatever the motivation, injecting ads into Alexa+ would mark a major shift in both user experience and Amazon’s strategy, especially given the assistant’s long history of being expensive to maintain and hard to monetize. Ad-supported Alexa+ could be Amazon’s attempt to finally turn its once-money-burning smart assistant into a revenue machine, without hiking the subscription fee (at least for now).

Alexa+ is still new, and what an ad-supported experience would actually look like remains unclear. According to Jassy, the idea is to frame ads as helpful, something to assist customers in discovering products they might be interested in buying.

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