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Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans

Rise of the machines postponed ... for now

AI + ML13 May 2025 | 30

Amazon touts Vulcan – its first robot with a sense of 'touch'

Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper

Offbeat08 May 2025 | 13

How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas

RSAC Will the personal assistant shop for groceries? Or get hijacked by a teen?

Spotlight on RSAC01 May 2025 | 35

Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices

World War Fee Revealing import taxes would be 'hostile and political' to Dear Leader

Personal Tech30 Apr 2025 | 230

Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper broadband sats make it into orbit on an Atlas V

One launch down, 80-plus to go, for a pittance compared to planned AWS spending

Networks29 Apr 2025 | 12

Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy did in 2024 compensation stakes

Exec pay outlined in Proxy Statement, and things did not go well for either workforce or calls for climate transparency reports

PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2025 | 8

Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance

Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week

Science03 Apr 2025 | 7

Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point

Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot

Applications18 Mar 2025 | 28

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud

Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway

AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 81

iRobot may be iDead in iYear

We're doomba, say Roomba goombas, unless...

Personal Tech12 Mar 2025 | 47

AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot

Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction

Science27 Feb 2025 | 13

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

License To Kill -9 ... For Your iPhone Only ... AI Another Day ... The name's Bezos, Jeff Bezos

Bootnotes21 Feb 2025 | 143

Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM

Updated And US government adverts at that, say senators

Personal Tech08 Feb 2025 | 42

Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build

Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age

AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 4

Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet

Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear

Science06 Feb 2025 | 9

Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK

Everybody is going to play nice, OK?

Networks04 Feb 2025 | 34

Amazon sued for allegedly slurping sensitive data via advertising SDK

Harvesting of location data and other personal info without user consent, lawsuit claims

Personal Tech30 Jan 2025 | 24

Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret

Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google

On-Prem22 Jan 2025 | 10

Former Amazon exec appointed as boss of UK's competition watchdog

Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth'

CxO22 Jan 2025 | 11

Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia

Peach State already home to more than 50 bit barns

On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 2

Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook

Interview Engineer who works on ways to prove that code is mathematically correct finds his field is suddenly much less obscure

AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 84

Amazon worker – struck and shot in New Orleans terror attack – initially denied time off

Web giant now pledges full support

Offbeat04 Jan 2025 | 46

We’re paying for what we don’t get: East D.C. neighbors frustrated with Amazon’s Prime delivery exclusions

Feature Locals demand transparency - and a refund wouldn't hurt

Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 45

Taiwan in talks to tap Amazon's Project Kuiper space broadband

In case of submarine cable failure, call Jeff Bezos

Networks18 Dec 2024 | 6

AI and analytics converge in new generation Amazon SageMaker

re:Invent Calling everything SageMaker is confusing – but a new name would have been worse says AWS

AI + ML06 Dec 2024 | 1

Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries

Lawsuit says e-commerce giant cut two zip codes from its own fleet without telling residents

Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 56

Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net

Re:Invent Tens of thousands of AWS’ Trn2 instances to fuel Anthropic's next-gen models

Systems03 Dec 2024 | 5

AWS unveils cloud security IR service for a mere $7K a month

Re:Invent Tap into the infinite scalability... of pricing

Security03 Dec 2024 | 5

Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional

Big Tech's big war on American labor watchdog stumbles... bigly

Legal18 Nov 2024 | 71

AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers

Throwing novel hardware at academia. It's a tale as old as time

Systems12 Nov 2024 | 2

Amazon confirms employee data exposed in leak linked to MOVEit vulnerability

Over 5 million records from 25 organizations posted to black hat forum

Cyber-crime12 Nov 2024 | 2

Amazon's nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal

Updated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cites grid stability concerns

On-Prem04 Nov 2024 | 57

Amazon adds MFA to its enterprise email service ... eight years after launch

No rush, guys

On-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 1

AWS boss: Don't want to come back to the office? Go work somewhere else

It's our way or the highway

PaaS + IaaS18 Oct 2024 | 111

Tech giants set to pay through the nose for nuclear power that's still years away

Google, Amazon, Microsoft dive into costly deals that aren't generating anything yet

On-Prem18 Oct 2024 | 95

Amazon makes $500M bet on itty-bitty nuclear reactors to fuel cloud empire

The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition

Systems16 Oct 2024 | 38

AWS must fork out $30.5M after losing P2P network patent scrap

No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory

Networks30 Sep 2024 | 31

Anthropic's UK revenue not enough to stop $4B Amazon union, says watchdog

Tie-up between AI toolmaker and Bezos biz doesn't qualify for merger partnership probe

AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 5

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

'Decisions like the one from Jassy are a big reason why I don’t want kids'

On-Prem25 Sep 2024 | 110

Amazon, Tesla, Meta considered harmful to democracy

Exploiting workers, undermining public services, exacerbating climate crisis, ITUC says

Bootnotes23 Sep 2024 | 41

Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time

And vows to cut ratio of managers-to-employees to 'flatten' the ranks

On-Prem16 Sep 2024 | 70

Amazon to pour £8B into UK datacenters through to 2028

How kind. Now how about looking at the corporation tax bill...

On-Prem11 Sep 2024 | 20

Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works

Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer

AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 10

'Error' causes Alexa to endorse Kamala Harris, refuse to discuss Trump

Bot shouldn't have political opinions, says Amazon

Software04 Sep 2024 | 67

Amazon antitrust case in Washington DC is resurrected

DC appeals court reverses dismissal, finding enough evidence of anticompetitive behavior to proceed

Personal Tech22 Aug 2024 | 2

From windfarms to Amazon Prime, UK plans to long range test six drone services

BVLOS operations to modernize airspace

Edge + IoT16 Aug 2024 | 50

UK monopoly police launch full blown probe of Amazon's Anthropic tie-up

Poor cloud titans, just trying to give a helping hand to AI startups valued at billions of dollars

AI + ML09 Aug 2024 | 5

Amazon: Our cloud growth just sped up. Did you know we are also quite a big retailer?

Reveals Kuiper broadband sats to fly later this year and solid Q2 sales

Cloud Infrastructure Month02 Aug 2024 | 9

Remember Nokia? Amazon's lawyers do, in patent infringement suit

Updated Finnish firm started the networking and cloud fight, Amazon could finish it

Networks31 Jul 2024 | 10

Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks

E-super-souk isn't having any of it

Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 | 92

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'

Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm

Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 44

Kindle sputters out: Amazon's e-readers couldn't download content for a short time

Updated Support line reports 'high volume of contacts' about the problem

Personal Tech05 Jul 2024 | 26

Amazon puts down its Astro robotic business watchdog

Now even the 'droids are being laid off – sheesh!

Bootnotes03 Jul 2024 | 19

Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal

AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC

On-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 2

Amazon's Project Kuiper slips to end of 2024 for first full-scale launch

Starlink rival slips again, but service still set for 2025

Networks28 Jun 2024 | 4

SoftBank boss says 'artificial superintelligence' could be three years away

Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei closer to divorcing Android; India probes Amazon warehouses; Singapore gets autonomous street sweepers

AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 31