Amazon’s big Prime Day pitch is its AI assistant. Is it working?

As Amazon pushes Rufus and Alexa deeper into online shopping, early data suggests AI is driving sales. But shoppers may be ...

Amazon's first-ever ChatGPT ads reveal a key part of the e-commerce giant's AI strategy

Amazon buys ChatGPT ads to reach more shoppers while limiting OpenAI's access to its shopping data.
PCMag

Can You Trust Amazon Reviews? These Tips Will Help You Spot the Fakes

AI tools have turned some Amazon listings into useless slop. If you're shopping Prime Day, here's how to identify and report ...
The Verge

Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year

Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than the others. Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than ...
The Hacker News

Free Apps Are Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit ...
Futurism

Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. On the ...
PCMag

I Went Into the Dark Web So You Don't Have To. Here's What's Actually Down There

When you hear "the dark web," you probably think of illegal, sordid activity, but that's not the whole picture. I don't recommend staying long, but these tips can help you explore the dark web using ...
Futurism

Amazon Pushed Its Employees to Use Its In-House AI Coding Tool, But They Wouldn’t Stop Asking for Claude

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. In ...
Forbes

California Alleges Extensive Examples Of Amazon Using Price Fixing

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. California Attorney General Rob Bonta claims that information from a 2022 lawsuit still in ...
Business Insider

Amazon pushes AI use and closely tracks adoption, as some employees push back

Amazon's retail business is closely tracking how often software engineers use AI and how that influences output, all while navigating resistance from parts of its workforce. An internal document ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta Signs Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Amazon to Use Its CPU Chips for AI

Meta Platforms and Amazon.com agreed to a multibillion-dollar deal over several years in which the social-media company will use tens of millions of Amazon Web Services’ Graviton chip cores to support ...
The Next Web

YouTubers sue Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train Nova Reel

In short: Three YouTube content creators, specifically the company behind H3H3 Productions, a solo golf presenter, and a golf channel, have filed a proposed class action lawsuit in Seattle alleging ...