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SoundCommerce raises $15 million for big data insights that help retailers compete with Amazon

Amazon’s New World delayed to August 31

AI Weekly: Techno-utopianism in the workplace and the threat of excessive automation

Bowery CTO Injong Rhee on the grand challenge of AI for indoor farming

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AI Weekly: What Andy Jassy’s ascension to CEO means for Amazon’s AI initiatives

Jeff Bezos announces plan to step down as CEO, as Amazon’s Q4 revenue eclipses $100 billion

University of Washington researchers say Amazon’s algorithms spread vaccine misinformation

Amazon Web Services’ insights into gaming for 2021

13 acquisitions highlight Big Tech’s AI talent grab in 2020

Amazon launches Live Translation mode for Alexa

Teachable AI will help Alexa users set up preferences

Amazon launches HealthLake, a platform for storing and analyzing health care data

BMW develops AI-powered big data hub with AWS to boost manufacturing efficiency

Amazon launches new AI services for DevOps and business intelligence applications

Amazon debuts Trainium, a custom chip for machine learning training in the cloud

Amazon Textract adds handwriting recognition and support for new languages

Ocado shops its way to a robotics platform for groceries and beyond

Amazon shifts some Alexa and Rekognition computing to its own Inferentia chip

AI research finds a ‘compute divide’ concentrates power and accelerates inequality in the era of deep learning

Amazon’s new Alexa feature uses AI to infer what users really want

EU accuses Amazon of antitrust violations for abusing merchant data on its platform

Analysis
Hands-on: Amazon Fresh grocery stores tease brick-and-mortar retail’s future

AWS releases models and datasets to help predict COVID-19’s spread

Amazon reports $96.1 billion in Q3 2020 revenue: AWS up 29%, subscriptions up 33%, and ‘other’ up 51%

Amazon embraces end-to-end models to improve Alexa’s speech recognition

Amazon Luna launches into early access for invitees only

Japan to join the U.S. and Europe in regulating Big Tech over market abuses

Opinion
ProBeat: Shame on tech companies that don’t give employees time off to vote

U.S. senators ask Amazon about employee tracking and union-blocking allegations

Access Now resigns from Partnership on AI due to lack of change among tech companies

Analysis
The DeanBeat: What’s at stake in Apple’s potentially apocalyptic IDFA changes

U.S. Congress calls for antitrust reforms to limit powers of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

Antitrust chair says Congress will need the people’s help to rein in powerful Big Tech companies

Amazon launches Alexa smartphone app features for car commuters

Amazon One verifies consumers and office workers by scanning the palm of their hand

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AI Weekly: Amazon went wide with Alexa; now it’s going deep

Amazon is embracing surveillance-as-a-service

Amazon launches Care Hub for family to monitor senior citizens
