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Prompted about products that could assist suicide, Amazon's Rufus AI repeatedly provided us with an incorrect crisis hotline number.

Artificial Intelligence

Asked for Products to Kill Yourself With, Amazon’s AI Says “You Are Not Alone” and Hallucinates an Incorrect Phone Number for a Suicide Hotline

By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Jon Christian

When it comes to scamming online retailers and getting free stuff, wealthy Gen Z and Millennials are way ahead of the game.

Rich Kids Are Using a Clever Trick to Get Stuff From Amazon for Free

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, the company still has to solve the problem of "hallucinations" before releasing an AI Alexa.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon uses over 750,000 robots that are impressive in some respects, but also struggle to perform simple tasks that a human could easily do.

Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers

By Frank Landymore

The CEO of Amazon Web Services suggested in leaked audio that human devs may not be coding in as little as two years.

Artificial Intelligence

In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says Human Developers Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon initially envisioned its Alexa, the voice assistant that comes with its Echo smart home devices, as a means to sell more stuff.

Robots and Machines

Amazon Horrified by What People Actually Use Alexa For

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon wrecked a married couple's washable swim diaper business because the tech giant resold and shipped a dirty nappy to a customer.

Couple Says Amazon Destroyed Their Small Business by Reselling a Dirty Diaper

By Sharon Adarlo

Despite being out for less than a year, Amazon has announced that its Astro for Business patrol robots will be bricked at the end of August.

After Just Ten Months, Amazon Says Its “Security Guard” Robot Will Become a Useless Brick

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon is planning to roll out its fleet of delivery drones in Arizona — but as Wired reports, soaring temperatures are hampering efforts.

Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Shutting Down on Hot Summer Days

By Victor Tangermann

By paying Amazon for lock screen ads, the AI-generated book scammers intend to make money by abusing the Kindle Unlimited program.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Taking Spammers’ Money to Serve Ads for AI-Generated Books on Kindle Lock Screens

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, which allowed customers to simply walk out with their stuff.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its “AI” Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books

By Frank Landymore

The news is another sign of Amazon's ruthless cost cutting at One Medical, a healthcare provider it acquired in 2022.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon-Owned Health Clinics Reportedly Training AI Chatbot to Triage Patients

By Frank Landymore

Large parts of the Amazon are nearing an irreversible “tipping point” and collapse due to deforestation and climate change, scientists warn.

Amazon Rainforest Set for Collapse, Scientists Warn

By Sharon Adarlo

A new Amazon AI model is, according to the researchers that built it, exhibiting incredible language abilities that it wasn't trained on.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing “Emergent Abilities”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like “I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy”

Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like “I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy”

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says one trillion people could soon live inside cylindrical space stations since planets are too small.

Jeff Bezos Discusses Plans for a Trillion People to Live in Huge Cylindrical Space Stations

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is being sued for selling spy cameras disguised as clothes hooks after a girl discovered a camera recording her inside a bathroom.

Amazon Caught Selling Bathroom Spy Cam Disguised as Clothes Hook

By Sharon Adarlo

The age of mass-produced humanoid robots is nigh — and the world's first factory to do so will soon be opening in the Pacific Northwest.

New Factory About to Open Will Pump Out Humanoid Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to leaked documents, Amazon's Q AI chatbot is suffering from "severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data."

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s AI Reportedly Suffering “Severe Hallucinations”

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI may have just been beaten to the punch when it comes to AI naming rights by Microsoft's cloud computing division.

Amazon Launches Chatbot With Almost Same Name as OpenAI’s Controversial Secret AI

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's upcoming LLM codenamed "Olympus" will reportedly have two trillion parameters, twice as many as OpenAI's GPT-4.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Reportedly Training AI With Twice as Many Parameters as GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

After a decade of drone dreams, Amazon's "Prime Air" drone delivery service seems to still be barely functional.

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Is a Dismal Failure That Can Only Carry a Single Can of Soup

By Noor Al-Sibai

A documentarian once dubbed "the Donald Trump of TripAdvisor" collected bottles of Amazon driver urine and resold them...on Amazon.

Madman Sells “Energy Drink” Made From Amazon Delivery Drivers’ Pee… on Amazon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon's Alexa has been caught falsely saying that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen by a massive amount of election fraud."

Robots and Machines

Amazon’s Alexa Goes MAGA, Claims 2020 Election Was Stolen

By Sharon Adarlo

More than 150 pink river dolphins died in Lake Tefé in Brazil's Amazonas state, a "catastrophe" that is startling scientists.

Science & Energy

150 Dolphins Die as Water Hits Hot Tub Temperature

By Victor Tangermann

It seems scammers who use AI to mimic writers are getting smarter after a journalist found a book that bore a strong resemblance to his own.

Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Are Using AI to Sell Ripped Off Versions of Other People’s Books

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you're considering a foray into amateur mushroom foraging, you might want to reconsider shopping for your beginner's guide on Amazon.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Worry That AI-Generated Books About Mushroom Foraging Will Get Someone Killed

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A book claiming to document the events of the Maui wildfires was published on Amazon just days after the deadly disaster had begun.

Artificial Intelligence

Seemingly AI-Written Book on Maui Wildfire Becomes Amazon Bestseller, Gets Taken Down

By Frank Landymore

People in an isolated area of Peru claim they were attacked by aliens but investigators think it's actually illegal miners using jetpacks.

Cops Say “Aliens” Attacking Amazonian Village Are Men With Jetpacks

By Sharon Adarlo

Author Jane Friedman got some seemingly AI-written books listed under her name taken down after posting about it on Twitter and her own blog.

Artificial Intelligence

Author Annoyed to Find Amazon Selling AI-Generated Books Under Her Name

By Noor Al-Sibai

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Artificial Intelligence

The New Scam Flooding Amazon: AI-Generated Travel Guides

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Droves of Amazon's human "Mechanical Turk" workers are using AI systems to automate the training of AI systems.

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Using AI to Automate Responses to Site That Pays Them to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A federal watchdog is warning customers that some combination smoke and carbon monoxide detectors being sold on Amazon don't work.

Government Warns That Amazon Smoke Detector Doesn’t Detect Smoke

By Victor Tangermann

Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a worrying trend.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

The distressed pants. The sneakers. The butterfly shirt. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Coachella fit was... bad.

Jeff Bezos’ Awkward Coachella Outfit Is Seared Into Our Memories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon is developing a satellite network of its own called Project Kuiper, and has now revealed the designs of the terminals that would connect to it.

This Is What the Terminals for Amazon’s “Starlink” Competitor Look Like

By Frank Landymore

Books that use AI-generated text are starting to flood Amazon, Reuters reports, the natural conclusion of a massive surge in interest in the technology.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Already Selling Tons of Books Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos' Amazon is reportedly planning to launch a web3 initiative this spring, where customers can play "crypto games" to win NFTs.

Business Geniuses at Amazon Hard at Work on Hot New Idea: NFTs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After catching snippets of ChatGPT text that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking to the AI.

Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

We regret to inform you that, sadly, AmazonSmile — which allowed Amazon customers to give a portion of purchase proceeds to charity — is coming to an end.

Amazon Kills Off Feature That Let Customers Give Sales Proceeds to Charity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon is offering customers $2 a month to customers willing to install an app that will track all the traffic on their phones. Not worth.

Amazon Says It’ll Pay You $2 Per Month to Spy on Your Phone’s Internet Traffic

By Frank Landymore

As the holiday season approaches, Jeff Bezos warns of a recession and cautioned consumers and business owners to slow down on making any big purches.

Jeff Bezos Warns People Not to Buy Expensive Things Ahead of Black Friday

By Frank Landymore

Amazon may ask SpaceX for help to get its Project Kuiper internet satellites into orbit, according to a recent Washington Post interview.

Amazon Admits It Might Need SpaceX to Launch Its Starlink Competitor

By Victor Tangermann

Leaked internal documents obtained by Engadget reveal that Amazon is burning through new employees at an utterly alarming degree.

Leak: Amazon is Churning Through New Employees at an Alarming Rate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Many kids — and their parents — have stumbled on a fascinating discovery: that yelling “poop” at their Alexa devices made a certain song play.

Artificial Intelligence

Genius Musicians Are Making Songs That Play When Children Yell “Poop” at Alexa

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon — which made solar power a key pillar of its plan to reach zero emissions by 2040 — secretly switched off all rooftop warehouse solar panels.

Amazon Secretly Shut Down All Its Solar Rooftops After They Started Catching Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon has shelled out over $700 million for its Lord of the Rings reboot, but for a moment it couldn't even get the first episode online.

Amazon Bungles Release of Most Expensive TV Show in History

By Frank Landymore

According to Insider, there are several silly, annoying, and/or stupid words forced upon Amazon employees by its founder and Executive Chairman, Jeff Bezos.

Amazon Makes Its Employees Use a Bunch of Stupid Made-Up Words

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the FTC, claiming that an investigation into the company has become "unduly burdensome" on Jeff Bezos and Andrew Jassy.

Jeff Bezos Says the FTC is Being Vewy Vewy Mean

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon and MGM are teaming up to air a TV show made from funny, viral Ring camera clips, that will be hosted by Wanda Sykes. It does not sound promising.

New TV Show Made From Viral Ring Camera Surveillance Footage

By Frank Landymore

Jeff Bezos and Amazon just purchased Roomba creator iRobot for $1.7 billion. Why? Amazon probably wants to map your home.

Report: Amazon Bought Roomba to Better Creep on Your Home

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Amazon is planning to allow its Alexa smart speaker to mimic the voices of deceased loved ones, arguably a rather crass failure to read the room.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Shows Off Tech That Lets Alexa Copy Voice of Dead Relatives

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon publicly announced last week that it would launch drone-delivery Prime Air in Lockeford, California — news to many of the rural town's residents.

Local Residents Threaten to Shoot Amazon Drones Out of the Sky

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Walmart announced an expansion to its drone delivery program that will offer $3.99 deliver fees on shipments of 10 pounds or less.

Walmart Announces Drone Deliveries to 4 Million Households

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazon is reportedly working on an internal messaging app — and employees working on it have discussed banning a hilarious number of labor-related words.

Amazon Discussed Banning the Words “Fairness” and “Pay Raise”

By Jon Christian

Amazon organizer roasted founder and billionare Jeff Bezos on Twitter, saying he was in space while the union was organizing.

Jeff Bezos’s Space Travel Used for Scorching Burn On Amazon After Union Win

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Insider reports that last summer, an experimental Amazon delivery drone crashed in Oregon and caused a large fire that consumed several acres.

An Amazon Delivery Drone Crashed and Caused a Large Fire

By Jon Christian

An iconic bridge in the Dutch city of Rotterdam will soon be partly demolished so that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' super yacht can pass through.

Jeff Bezos Demands That Historic Bridge Be Taken Apart So That His Superyacht Can Pass Through

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon quietly funded classes that teach students how to work at Amazon in a California county where it's the largest employer.

Amazon Pays for High School Class About How to Be an Amazon Grunt

By Noor Al-Sibai

In yet another odd marriage of capitalism and space travel, Lockheed Martin has announced that it will be sending an Amazon Echo as part of the upcoming Artemis 1 mission.

NASA Is Installing Amazon Alexa on Its Next Moon Mission, for Some Cursed Reason

By Tony Ho Tran

Twitch has banned an official Amazon Prime account from streaming — even though Amazon owns Twitch.

Twitch, Which Is Owned by Amazon, Bans Amazon Channel From Streaming

By Noor Al-Sibai