Amazon has lagged OpenAI and Anthropic, but AI chief sees path to catch up in 'coming year'

Amazon has been looking to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier AI with its Nova models. AI chief Peter DeSantis said ...
Nature

Bots are scraping open data — how should researchers respond?

The snowballing ability of artificial intelligence to trawl open data sets has some scientists worried about losing control ...
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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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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Mashable

Amazon Web Services outage enters second day. Here's what we know.

In its most recent update, posted at 12:29 p.m. PT, Amazon acknowledged that recovery "efforts are slower than we had previously anticipated," and that "Full recovery is still expected to take several ...
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 ...
CNET

YouTubers Sue Amazon, Claim AI Tool Was Trained on Scraped Videos

A group of YouTube creators is suing Amazon, accusing the tech giant of secretly scraping their videos to train its AI video model without permission. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in ...
GeekWire

Amazon sued by YouTubers for allegedly scraping their content to train AI video tool

Amazon’s headquarters campus in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A trio of YouTube producers filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon alleging the tech giant illegally used content from ...