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The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has ordered Twitch to provide users with an opt-out for Amazon's use of their content for AI training, citing GDPR violations. The opt-out toggle, located in …

An investigation by 404 Media revealed that Amazon is buying rare books, cutting off their bindings, and scanning them for AI training data, destroying the physical copies in the process. The operatio…

Since the AI boom began in 2023, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta have invested $1.1 trillion in AI infrastructure, with plans for another $745 billion this year, signaling a shift from asset-lig…

A Kentucky family rejected roughly $26 million from an unnamed Fortune 100 company for half of their 1,200-acre farm in Mason County to build an AI data center, joining a lawsuit to block the project.…

Amazon is making its AI-powered assistant, Alexa+, available for free on all eligible Fire TV devices in the US, even without a Prime subscription. The upgraded assistant can pull relevant recommendat…

Zynga founder Mark Pincus said in an interview that AI can get products to a B-plus but not to an A, and that leaders must master the science of product making before earning the right to innovate. He…

Amazon announced plans to significantly ramp up its Prime Air drone delivery service, aiming for airborne deliveries in nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of this year. The drones can transpo…

Amazon is making Alexa+ free on Fire TV devices for US customers, eliminating the need for a Prime or Alexa+ subscription to access the AI assistant. The update, rolling out automatically to supported…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added CVE-2025-62593, a critical remote code execution flaw in the Ray open-source framework used by OpenAI, Uber, and Amazon, to its Known …

A new arXiv study (2608.18158v1) evaluating LLMs as data quality annotators found that on the Abt Buy entity matching benchmark (2,194 labeled pairs), a rule-based baseline (F1=0.950) performed about …

AI agents will increasingly face credentialing requirements to access online services, according to a commentary by an unnamed author citing Scott Belsky's concept of 'favored agents.' The piece sugge…

OKX, a major crypto exchange, has restricted its Hong Kong employees from using Anthropic's AI model Claude, following a brief suspension of the corporate account that was later restored. OKX reported…

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are on track to collectively spend roughly $735 billion on AI data center infrastructure in 2026, according to Goldman Sachs estimates, with global AI infrastruct…

On August 19, 2026, Amazon announced it is dropping the $19.99 monthly fee for its Alexa+ AI assistant on compatible Fire TV devices, making the upgrade automatic for current-gen Fire TV Sticks, Fire …

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that artificial intelligence could be 'bigger than the internet, bigger than anything anyone's seen,' as he called for regulation that does not stifle the industr…

Fractile, a London-based AI chip startup that supplies Anthropic, is in advanced talks to raise approximately $600 million at a pre-money valuation of $6.5 billion, a sixfold increase from its $1 bill…

Amazon has been buying books in bulk and scanning them at a Las Vegas warehouse, cutting spines and destroying the books, according to a tracking device placed by 404 Media. Amazon confirmed it buys b…

Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will offer Alexa+ for free on compatible Fire TV devices, including current-generation Fire TV Sticks, Fire TV Cube, Amazon Ember smart TVs, and select Panasonic …

Amazon announced on Wednesday that Alexa+, its AI assistant, is now included at no cost with every Fire TV device, including current-generation Fire TV Sticks, Fire TV Cube, Amazon Ember smart TVs, an…

404 Media reports that Amazon has been buying and destroying rare books to train its AI models, as detailed in an investigation by Emanuel. The podcast also covers cases of AI misuse, including an exp…