Mint

Amazon tells staff to stop using AI just to use AI after shutting down its token leaderboard

The tech giant deprecated its employee-built "KiroRank" ranking system after concluding it was pushing staff to inflate AI activity rather than solve genuine business problems, as major corporations ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Amazon Launching AI Creators Fund, Picks Up Three Animated Prime Video Shows That Use Its New Tech

The projects include work from 'Maya and the Three’ director Jorge Gutierrez, former Nickelodeon exec Albie Hecht and Buzzfeed Studios. By Katie Kilkenny, Alex Weprin Amazon is embarking on a major ...
Futurism

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

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Fast Company

Amazon workers are under pressure to up their AI usage—so they’re making up extraneous tasks

According to Amazon employees, the company is pushing them to incorporate more and more AI in their workflows. What exactly they should be using it for is less clear, leaving the door open for ...
TechSpot

Amazon employees are inflating AI usage to top leaderboards and impress managers

Editor's take: Like many major technology companies attempting to turn "dumb" AI models into profitable tools, Amazon is reportedly engaging in questionable accounting practices. According to internal ...
Futurism

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

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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 ...
The Motley Fool

Amazon Stock Just Keeps Rising. Here's the Latest Catalyst Driving Shares Higher -- and a Close Look at the Stock.

Meta and Amazon announced on Friday that Meta will use AWS' Graviton5 CPU chips in a massive multiyear deal. Meta will use "tens of millions of cores" worth of Graviton chips, said Amazon engineering ...
Ars Technica

Anthropic gets $5B investment from Amazon, will use it to buy Amazon chips

Amazon has significantly boosted its multibillion-dollar bet on Claude developer Anthropic by investing an additional $5 billion—enabling Anthropic to eventually secure up to 5 gigawatts’ worth of AI ...
9to5Mac

Amazon buying Globalstar; Apple satellite services to use Amazon Leo

Amazon has today announced that it’s buying satellite giant GlobalStar to allow its Amazon Leo service to offer direct connectivity to consumer devices. Apple owned 20% of the company. The deal will ...
Newsweek

Amazon Recalls Issued—‘Stop Using Immediately’

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced a wave ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Amazon Will Use Cerebras’ Giant Chips to Help Run AI Models

Amazon.com Inc. plans to use chips from startup Cerebras Systems Inc. alongside its own Trainium processors, a combination that the companies say will be able to better run AI software. Amazon Web ...