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Artificial Intelligence

AI is Passing the First Stage of its Antitrust Era

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It’s not a hallucination: Artificial intelligence companies have actually managed to placate at least one national regulator.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can Voice Assistants Make a Comeback in the Age of AI?

Once upon a time, the biggest prestige battle in Silicon Valley was who had the best voice assistant. Then came ChatGPT.

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Big Tech

How Amazon Web Services Became King of the Cloud

Amazon is crushing in the cloud services industry. Usurping it would necessitate a monumental shift in the tech industry writ large.

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Patent Drop

Amazon Patent Highlights Double-Edged Sword of Personalized AI

A recent Amazon patent may seek to make Alexa smarter and more personalized — but it could have the opposite effect

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Big Tech

A Small Union Win Casts a Big Shadow Over Amazon

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Prosecutors for the NLRB concluded that a group of 84 unionized Amazon drivers in Palmdale, California are employed by Amazon.

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Big Tech

Silicon Valley Gears Up for Crucial Earnings Week

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Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta all report earnings this week. Wall Street is dying for any hint that heavy investment in AI is paying off.

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Big Tech

Who has Liability in the Shifting World of e-commerce?

Amazon has largely dodged liability for the products sold on their virtual shelves. But could the legal tides be shifting?

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Patent Drop

Amazon Explainability Patent Could Bring Responsible AI to AWS

Amazon wants to keep its AI models on a leash.

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M&A

Saks-Neiman Marcus Merger Lures Amazon, Salesforce Into Luxury

The owner of Saks Fifth Avenue reached a deal to acquire rival Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion, the companies announced Thursday.

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Patent Drop

Amazon Patent May Help Models Unlearn Biases, Inaccuracies

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And Amazon wants to help machine learning models unlearn bad data.

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Consumer

Amazon Sets up a Rival to Shein and Temu

Amazon’s setting up a discounted shop that will fly products to consumers from China. It’s meant to copy Shein and Temu’s business models.

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Media & Entertainment

Does TV News Have a Home in the Streaming Era?

Big Tech loves movies, TV shows, and live sports. So why has it shown remarkably little appetite for the TV news business?

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Big Tech

Amazon has to Reckon with the Teamsters Now

The independent union representing Amazon workers in Staten Island announced on Tuesday it is now officially affiliated with the Teamsters.

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