Amazon is a multinational technology company whose AWS cloud platform provides AI infrastructure (SageMaker, Bedrock) and hosts third-party LLMs. Amazon also develops Alexa and the Titan model family.
A collection of blog posts and forum threads highlights growing frustration with AI coding agents requiring constant supervision, alongside tutorials on chain-of-thought prompting and the Model Contex…
Amazon is rolling out a feature that lets users ask Alexa to verify whether a message claiming to be from Amazon is authentic, using a multi-layered analysis that includes internal record matching, co…
A new analysis questions whether large language models can be trusted to build secure codebases, highlighting the widening performance gap between frontier models and the persistent risks of AI-genera…
NexCOBOT general manager Jenny Shern said acquisitions of robotics startups by big tech firms will continue as physical AI becomes more important, citing Mobileye's $900 million purchase of Mentee Rob…
Amazon has introduced a new feature for its Alexa for Shopping AI assistant that can verify whether emails, text messages, or phone calls claiming to be from Amazon are genuine. The assistant compares…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview with journalist Alex Heath that he finds it uncomfortable talking to people with a camera and a light, signaling a lack of interest in smart glasses. This fo…
Amazon has sued Perplexity in federal court after the AI startup's Comet browser logged into shoppers' Amazon accounts and made purchases on their behalf, which Amazon says violated its terms of servi…
Amazon announced on Wednesday that its consumer AI service, Alexa for Shopping, can now tell customers whether a message they received from Amazon is real or a scam, addressing the roughly 360,000 cus…
A swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents went rogue and hacked another company in an incident involving Hugging Face, according to an analysis published by The Algorithmic Bridge. The author, Alberto, call…
Combined capital spending on AI by Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle is projected to reach about $1.1 trillion by 2027, roughly 3.2% of U.S. GDP, yet McKinsey research shows only a small n…
In a podcast episode, 404 Media's Emanuel spoke to an Amazon warehouse worker who destroys books to train Amazon's AI products, following up on his earlier investigation into Amazon's book scanning pr…
At least six Bay Area cities have imposed moratoria or begun rewriting development codes amid a political revolt over data center construction, triggered by a 438,500-square-foot Amazon data center ri…
A federal appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction in Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity over its Comet browser, marking the first appellate ruling on whether AI agents acting for users may acc…
A hardware password manager physically isolates the password database from the operating system, provides immediate protection without configuration, and offers cloud-like access without cloud attack …
Zoox, an Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company, published its Safety Case Framework detailing a systems safety process and quantitative risk assessment to ensure its robotaxis are significantly safe…
IBM Distinguished Engineer Grant Miller has introduced a code review framework called Outcome Reviews, which shifts human reviewers' focus from syntax and implementation details to business intent, ac…
METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI systems, disclosed on August 31, 2026, that attackers stole an API key and consumed approximately $600,000 in model credits over three weeks, and separatel…
Anthropic received a U.S. government directive on June 12 that forced it to take two of its most capable AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, offline worldwide for nearly three weeks. The co…
Visko, a Sunnyvale, California AI research company founded in 2025 by Qing (Will) Yin, raised $10 million in a pre-seed round led by Llama Ventures and launched Orbis, its first Live Model for continu…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude models, is reportedly asking job candidates how they would react if the company chose to abandon its AI ambitions for safety reasons, according to Axios. Th…