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The Pixel Watch 5 is a better value at $65 off

Google’s latest watch is already discounted during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days.

by Brad Bourque

Oct 6, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC

The Pixel Watch 5 with a white band.

Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital Trends, Business Insider, and WIRED.

The Google Pixel Watch 5 is discounted by $60 during Amazon’s October sale, with the 41mm version on sale for $334.99, and the 45mm version for $364.99. The latest version of Google’s smartwatch rolled out alongside the Pixel 11 phones in August with improved GPS, gesture controls, and offline Gemini, although we had mixed results ahead of its launch with Google’s AI assistant’s proactive notifications. It’s possible that it has gotten better since.

The discount here helps offset the Pixel Watch 5’s $50 price hike over the Pixel Watch 4, and is particularly notable for coming...

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WhatsApp may soon let users schedule messages

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IonQ to buy cybersecurity firm Elisity for up to $1.3bn in stock

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Britain steps up its defences against AI risks

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UK says it will again test OpenAI and Anthropic models before release

Britain’s AI Security Institute will keep testing the most powerful AI models before they are released, the UK government said on Monday. AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the UK had worked closely with the US to keep that access, Bloomberg reported. It reverses a US move that put White

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WhatsApp may soon let users schedule messages

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Britain steps up its defences against AI risks

UK says it will again test OpenAI and Anthropic models before release