If you’re looking for an e-reader that allows you to buy expensive bestsellers from your local independent bookshops, your research will inevitably point you to Rakuten’s Kobo eReader. But, as it turns out, this reputation is largely based on outdated methods for buying Kobo books, involving signing up for a Kobo account from bookshops’ websites….
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding, “Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues…
Amazon is planning to extend the footprint of its new conversational AI assistant Alexa+ to India, and is inviting customers within the nation to check out a Hindi-language model. The corporate despatched out emails to some clients, which had been seen by TechCrunch, asking customers to fill out a kind in Hindi by June 22…
If Amazon Net Providers has its manner, the cloud big goes to push even deeper into Nvidia’s market, in what could be one of many greatest challenges to Nvidia’s AI chip dominance we’ve seen thus far. Amazon’s AI chief Peter DeSantis told Bloomberg that AWS is in talks to promote its AI chip Trainium to…
Earlier this month, 5 present Amazon staff publicly urged Seattle Metropolis Council to control information facilities. It was an unprecedented act of advocacy by tech employees, and now three of the staffers say they’re below inner investigation for what they perceive to be allegedly representing themselves as spokespeople for the corporate with out prior approval….
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was amongst tech leaders who raised considerations to senior Trump administration officers this week about safety dangers in Anthropic’s most superior AI fashions, an individual accustomed to the matter advised Reuters. Jassy’s involvement sheds gentle on the extraordinary transfer by Anthropic on Friday to close down its newest fashions globally in…
The Trump administration’s choice to chop international entry to Anthropic’s strongest AI fashions was reportedly triggered by calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. In response to a report from The Wall Road Journal, Jassy contacted senior authorities officers on Thursday after Amazon researchers found a solution to immediate Anthropic’s Fable 5 mannequin into returning data…
