The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says staffing cuts could delay its case against Amazon. As CNBC reported Wednesday (March 12), attorneys for the regulator have asked a judge to hold off on the start of a trial into whether Amazon had tricked customers into signing...
Amazon is aiming to derive savings from its robotics investment as it ups AI spending. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Feb. 26), the tech giant is expected to spend $35 billion on its retail network — which includes robotics-powered warehouses — to drive...
Amazon said Thursday (Feb. 20) that it stopped offering Amazon Coins and will discontinue both Amazon Coins and the Amazon Appstore on Android Aug. 20. “Starting Aug. 20, 2025, you will no longer have access to the Amazon Appstore on your Android device,” the company...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) told customers Wednesday (Feb. 19) that it will no longer accept new customers for its collaboration solution, Amazon Chime, and will stop supporting the service in a year. “After careful consideration, we have decided to end support for the Amazon Chime...
Amazon is no longer offering Inspire, the social commerce feature with a video and photo feed of products that it added to its mobile app in 2022. “Thank you for using Amazon Inspire to discover and shop new products on Amazon,” a page on the company’s website said....
Amazon is reportedly pushing back the release of its updated Alexa, part of a string of delays for the virtual assistant. While the company still plans to publicly unveil the new version of Alexa on Feb. 26, a report Friday (Feb. 14) by the Washington...
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is using automated reasoning — a method rooted in centuries-old principles of logic — to combat one of artificial intelligence (AI)’s newest and most persistent challenges: hallucinations, or the propensity of generative AI models to make things up. The...
Amazon is testing a new feature that enables users of the Amazon Shopping app to find select products from other sites and go there to purchase them. Currently in beta, the “Shop brand sites directly” feature is live for some U.S. customers and will be rolled...
Amazon continues its push into artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, signaling a shift in its retail and technology business strategies. CEO Andy Jassy described AI Thursday (Feb. 6) as “the biggest opportunity since cloud and probably the biggest technology shift and opportunity in business since...
