Tag: Amazon

Meta’s shopping agent finds the Amazon door closed

Amazon has cut Meta's Muse agent off from its storefront, turning a quiet integration into a public fight…

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk marketplace closes for good this month

The crowdsourcing pioneer that Amazon called Artificial Artificial Intelligence shuts down on September 30.

Amazon adds 2 million Nvidia GPUs to its AI data centers

Amazon will deploy 2 million more Nvidia GPUs across AWS starting in 2027 as the pair expand their…

Prime Air’s sixfold expansion leans on autonomous flight

The drone delivery fleet will grow sixfold by year end, leaning on autonomous flight software and a detect-and-avoid…

Amazon’s Fire TV drops the monthly fee for Alexa+

Amazon drops the $19.99 monthly price for Alexa+ on Fire TV and upgrades everyone automatically.

Amazon slices open rare books to harvest AI training data

Amazon is buying rare books in bulk, cutting off their spines, and scanning them into AI training data,…

Twitch gives streamers control over Amazon AI training data

Twitch added a setting that keeps streamer content out of Amazon's generative AI training.

Amazon builds guardrails after AI jobs blow project budgets

Amazon engineers are capping AI project spend after a $1.8M Claude job shipped nothing.

Bezos Predicts AI Will Create Labor Shortage, Not Job Losses

Jeff Bezos told the VivaTech conference in Paris that AI will create a labor shortage rather than replace…

Amazon licenses AI shopping platform to retailers, starting with Kate Spade

Amazon is licensing its AI shopping technology to retailers like Kate Spade, allowing them to launch custom AI…

OpenAI Breaks Free from Microsoft’s Cloud Cage, But the Price Is Steep

OpenAI's amended deal with Microsoft kills the exclusive cloud requirement but cements a capped 20 percent revenue share…

The Great AGI Rebrand: How Tech Titans Are Selling The Same Snake Oil Under New Acronyms

Tech CEOs are ditching the term AGI for safer sounding acronyms like PSI, HSI, and UGI, but the…