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Amazon now requires staff to show AI use to get promoted at Ring and some other units
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at Amazon and making big changes. His latest move injects AI evaluation into how ...
AWS layoffs hit hundreds as Amazon restructures amid AI push
AWS laysoffs hundreds as Amazon doubles down on AI, trims bureaucracy, and refocuses on long-term growth priorities.
Amazon’s greenhouse gas emissions are increasing.
It saw a 6 percent rise in planet-heating pollution last year, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. As it ...
Amazon Ring’s founder is back as CEO with a hard pivot to AI. How Jamie Siminoff went from ‘Shark Tank’ reject to $1 billion brand
The popular home-security brand first came into the limelight when founder Jamie Siminoff pitched the product on Shark Tank ...
Amazon’s carbon emissions jump as AI push tests company’s climate pledge
Amazon’s greenhouse gas emissions rose by 6% last year, due mostly to pollution generated by the company’s delivery fleet and ...
AI agents will change work and society in internet-sized ways, says AWS VP
At AWS Summit, Deepak Singh, VP of developer agents and experiences at AWS, spoke with ZDNET about how agentic AI will bring ...
Amazon’s AI push is undermining its sustainability goals
Amazon’s decarbonization goals are being undermined by its push to be a leader in generative AI. Its most recent sustainability report concedes its overall carbon emissions grew for the first time ...