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Amazon is facing a major outage in the UK. Thousands of users of the e-commerce platform have reported facing issues, including payment failures, app glitches, and error messages while trying to complete purchases. According to outage-tracking website Down Detector, more than 2,000 complaints were recorded at the time of writing, with reports rising sharply. The…
Amazon has announced that it will invest $50 billion in ChatGPT maker OpenAI. With this investment, the e-commerce major is deepening its partnership with the Sam Altman-led artificial intelligence (AI) company as Nvidia reportedly reconsiders its own funding strategy. Amazon’s move contrasts with Nvidia’s reported shift from a previously proposed $100 billion infrastructure investment in…
AI (Representative image) Some of the world’s largest technology companies are not only building artificial intelligence (AI) tools but are actively tracking whether their own employees are using them – and in some cases – tying that usage directly to their career advancement and performance evaluations. Citing a survey from AI consulting firm Section, a…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently said that sucking up to your boss will not earn their trust. In a company YouTube video, Jassy said: “They (juniors) sometimes confuse it with meaning being nice to one another or having social cohesion or not challenging each other in meetings”. “I won’t challenge you if you don’t challenge…
President Donald Trump is making all technology companies betting big on AI make a promise to Americans. Trump administration wants Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and all the other technology companies planning to build or invest in data centers to commit that Americans will not have to pay for their rising energy consumption. According to a…
Investor Michael Burry is questioning Big Tech’s $660 billion AI infrastructure spending spree, warning that companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are burning through cash, piling on debt, and using aggressive depreciation schedules to mask the earnings impact. Drawing parallels to the early electricity boom—where the technology was real but investors still got wiped…
Amazon has officially overtaken Walmart as the world’s largest company by revenue. In 2025, the e-commerce major reported $717 billion in sales, compared to Walmart’s $713.2 billion for the 12 months ending January 31. The shift ends more than a decade of Walmart holding the top position. However, analysts note that the comparison requires context:…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced at least two outages in the past few months. These outages were reportedly linked internally to the use of its own AI coding tools. This led the company to a closer examination of how these assistants are being deployed across its operations. A report claims that the biggest cloud service…
Amazon is pushing hard to make AI-assisted coding an everyday habit across the company. The target is clear—80 per cent of developers should be using AI for coding tasks at least once a week, according to the Financial Times. But the company isn’t leaving the choice of tool up to its engineers. It wants them…
Mackenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has said that her approach to large-scale philanthropy is shaped by acts of kindness she received during her early years. In an essay published on her philanthropic organisation, Yield Giving website in October, Scott said she often thinks about the people who helped her when she…
