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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
