A former Amazon AI scientist, Dr. Viviane Ghaderi, has filed a lawsuit against the tech giant, claiming she faced discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination after disclosing her pregnancy and raising concerns about copyright infringement in AI research.
Claiming to harness the potential of AI in combating climate change and nature loss, Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund has announced a $100 million grant program called the AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge.
Google employees who took part in a protest over the company’s continued business with Israel were arrested on Tuesday evening.
In his annual letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy touted the transformative potential of generative AI while also committing to ongoing cost-cutting measures.
Amazon’s “Reacher” star Alan Ritchson is having a difficult time understanding why Christians would support former President Donald Trump, whom the actor called a “rapist” and a “con man.”
President Biden welcomed an array of high-profile guests, including tech industry leaders, to a state dinner held in honor of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on Wednesday evening.
Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology, touted as a fully automated checkout-free system, has been revealed to rely heavily on human reviewers, particularly a team of over 1,000 workers in India.
Newly unsealed court documents from an ongoing class action lawsuit against Meta show that in 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally directed executives to “figure out” how to track encrypted usage on competing apps like Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon.
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving most of her $640 million in new charitable donations to radical left-wing organizations that push extreme agendas, including providing assistance for migrant criminals, and male athletes competing in women’s sports.
Director Doug Liman’s Road House (2024) is full of affection for the original, woke-free, and does plenty right — until it doesn’t.
Peter Schweizer’s “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans” rocketed to #1 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list on Monday, one day before its highly anticipated February 27 release.
Amazon Prime Video is facing backlash from subscribers over changes to its streaming service that now includes ads by default. Some subscribers are so upset that they have filed a class action lawsuit against the e-commerce giant, alleging that the service they paid for is now “something worth less,” and that Amazon’s actions are “deceptive.”
In January, Warner Bros. Discovery announced the shelving of Coyote vs. Acme, a $70 million Looney Tunes movie.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) took to X/Twitter on Monday to post “never-before-released internal emails” subpoenaed by the House Judiciary GOP that he dubbed the “Amazon files,” which reveal “that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of.”
Doug Liman, director of the upcoming Road House remake, is furious Amazon is sending his movie direct to streaming.
As Amazon Studios embarks on a new Hollywood production deal to create faith-based entertainment for Christians, the company is preparing to roll out a new animated series that celebrates Lucifer and demons.
Discord, the popular messaging and video calling platform, has announced a significant reduction in its workforce, laying off 17 percent of its staff in a strategic move to streamline operations.
Amazon is laying off “several hundred” workers at Prime Video and MGM Studios — the latest bloodbath for a Hollywood streamer as consumers hammered by the Biden economy continue cutting back on streaming subscriptions.
The Abu Dhabi Technological Innovation Institute (TII) announced on Monday that it will open a new research center in Haifa, Israel, headed by a former Amazon executive named Yoelle Maarek.
The Jerusalem Post claims that a whistleblower at Amazon has exposed a series of anti-Israel comments and pro-Hamas messages circulating within the company’s internal communication channels.
Amazon has come under fire for enabling perverts by selling hidden cameras disguised as mundane objects, a lawsuit complains.
Amazon won’t have to pay about 250 million euros in back taxes after EU judges ruled in favor of the U.S. e-commerce giant.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s $500 million yacht is reportedly not very climate friendly.
Amazon has blacklisted the Amanda Milius-directed documentary “The Plot Against the President” by removing the title from its Prime Video streaming service without explanation.
Amazon is throwing out hundreds of jobs, including American ones, from its Alexa unit to focus more on artificial intelligence (AI), a company leader told workers on Friday.
Amazon will launch vehicle sales in the U.S. next year and allow local car dealers to sell directly to customers on its site.
A recall affecting approximately 13,300 children’s nightgowns manufactured in China and sold on Amazon from March through June of 2023 has been announced.
Amazon is reportedly building its own powerful AI system, codenamed Olympus, to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Bard, and other popular AI platforms. The company hopes to integrate Olympus into its e-commerce platform and even Alexa to “enhance” the smart home assistant’s performance.
More than 4,000 baby loungers manufactured in China and sold on Amazon are being recalled for posing a suffocation risk to children.
A recently unredacted FTC complaint levels serious allegations against Amazon, accusing the retail giant of deceptive ad practices and using private messaging to dodge the discovery process.
Giant music publishers including Universal Music have taken legal action against artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, accusing it of unlawfully using copyrighted song lyrics to enhance its chatbot technology.
Amazon is reportedly testing humanoid robots and a new sorting technology, aiming to enhance automation and efficiency in its warehouses. The technologies could have a troubling impact on the number of humans employed in the e-commerce giant’s extensive network of warehouses.
As Amazon faces an antitrust lawsuit filed by the FTC and 17 states, many of the lawsuit’s allegations focus on how Amazon treats its third-party sellers. As both a platform and a competitor, Amazon has allegedly used its overwhelming power to destroy small businesses that dare to find success on its platform through underhanded tactics and platform manipulation. The stories of individual Amazon sellers provide details of just how Amazon has abused its power.
Amazon has launched the first test satellites for its proposed satellite internet service on Friday, as the company seeks to close the gap on Elon Musk’s Starlink, which is already offering global internet coverage.
Amazon’s popular voice assistant Alexa has recently claimed that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud.”
Amazon finds itself under the FTC’s microscope as the federal agency scrutinizes the e-commerce giant’s business as part of its lawsuit against Jeff Bezos’ company. The latest allegations include that the company used a secret algorithm, dubbed “Project Nessie,” to manipulate prices and expand the company’s profits.
Amazon faces a major legal challenge as the FTC unveils its 172-page lawsuit, alleging the e-commerce giant of employing anti-competitive practices and exploiting merchants on its platform.
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Amazon finds itself in the crosshairs of the FTC and 17 states, facing accusations of engaging in illegal conduct and monopolistic practices within its online store and merchant services.
Amazon is reportedly investing up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic, taking a minority ownership stake in the company. This serves as Amazon’s entry into the AI arms race, a crowded field featuring Google, the partnership between ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Microsoft, and many other players.