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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says…
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A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon
It’s no secret that AI is a hog, consuming energy and water like no digital technology before it.…
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Amazon working on new smartphone with Alexa at its core, report says
Looks like Amazon’s getting back into the smartphone game. More than 11 years after the e-commerce giant pulled…
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Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI
Jeff Bezos is reportedly seeking $100 billion for a new fund, the likes of which will be used…
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Amazon adds 1-hour and 3-hour delivery options in the US
Amazon is launching one-hour and three-hour delivery options across many cities in the U.S. as the e-commerce giant…
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Alexa+ gets a new ‘adults only’ personality option that curses but won’t do NSFW content
Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ is getting another new personality. On Thursday, the company announced it’s expanding its lineup…
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Amazon launches its healthcare AI assistant on its website and app
Amazon announced on Tuesday that it’s expanding access to its healthcare AI assistant to its website and app.…
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Amazon is rolling out a redesigned Fire TV app
Amazon is starting to roll out its redesigned Fire TV mobile app to customers, the company announced on…
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His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.
Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries…
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OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history
OpenAI has raised $110 billion in private funding, the company announced Friday morning, commencing one of the largest…