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The estate for the late director Orson Welles is furious that Amazon and is going to use AI to "bring back to life" his lost masterpiece.
Artificial Intelligence

Orson Welles’ Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Amazon-funded startup is using AI -- as well as more traditional techniques -- to recreate lost footage from a storied Orson Welles film.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Startup Announces Plans to “Finish” Orson Welles’ Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage

By Frank Landymore

The rollout of Amazon's new "GenAI-powered" Alexa+ blends Orwell's 1984 with the exciting world of e-commerce.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s New Alexa AI Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare

By Joe Wilkins

Amazon will soon have as many robots as it does humans plugging away at its warehouses, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Robotics

Robots Are About to Outnumber Humans At Amazon Warehouses

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is building a vast complex of AI data centers on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland in Indiana for a huge and powerful AI model.
Brain

Amazon Is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

As calls grow to stop treating its workers like robots, Amazon has decided to cut out the middle man and just use actual robots.
Robotics

Amazon Testing Humanoid Robots to Ride in Vans, Hand-Deliver Packages

By Joe Wilkins

Amazon engineers saying they're being forced to use AI while being told to do more work on even tighter deadlines.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark

By Frank Landymore

After selling over 40,000 hazardous and recalled items, Amazon was found selling lead-lined kitchen faucets.
Future Society

Amazon Caught Selling Kitchen Faucets That Leach Lead Directly Into Your Water

By Joe Wilkins

A scammer left glaringly obvious evidence of using AI to write portions of a fantasy novel and even tried to copy the style of a real author.
Artificial Intelligence

Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer’s Style

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's delivery drones are crashing because the company decided to go cheap.
Drones

Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Crashing, and We Finally Know Why

By Frank Landymore

Todd Lyons envisions a future for migrants in the United States that's less like Ellis Island, and more like Amazon Prime.
Future Society

Director of ICE Says Deportations Should Operate More Like Amazon Prime

By Joe Wilkins

Amazon is likely earning just a tiny fraction of the billions it currently invests in AI models every year, according to experts.
Artificial Intelligence

The Amount Amazon Is Actually Making on AI Will Make Your Eyebrows Raise Dramatically

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is removing the setting to opt-out of having your Alexa voice recordings being sent to and store on its servers — forever.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Announces New Spying Initiative for Alexa

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is testing a new "AI-aided" dubbing feature on a selection of movies in English and Latin American Spanish.
Artificial Intelligence

In Further Assault on Cinema, Amazon Is Deploying AI-Aided Dubs on Streaming Movies

By Frank Landymore

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Program Was So Annoying That Homeowners Begged It to Stop
Drones

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Program Was So Annoying That Homeowners Begged It to Stop

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's Prime Video appears to have used AI to write up brief movie summaries for the platform — and it may have just been caught red-handed.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Prime Video Appears to Have Left AI Slop in the Public Description of an Oscar-Winning Al Pacino Film

By Victor Tangermann