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TikTok is ripping a page from Amazon’s playbook.The social-video app is testing a Prime-style membership program for some US shoppers, according to screenshots of the offering viewed by Business Insider.The program, called TikTok Shop Plus, is built into Shop, its e-commerce platform. Like Amazon Prime, it offers members a mix…
Amazon’s next Alexa AI upgrade may be able to handle more complex tasks. Getting there is expensive, though.Internal planning documents reviewed by Business Insider show Amazon is working on a previously unreported Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks for users.Moonraker pushes Alexa into the AI agent…
Amazon raised prices for several key AI cloud offerings, the latest sign that memory chip shortages are driving up the cost of some technology.Amazon Web Services recently announced price increases for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. This is a cloud service that lets companies reserve GPUs in advance.The changes mean…
Some of the biggest names in tech and AI are behind a new organization with ambitious plans to help workers navigate the AI transition.The OpenAI Foundation, Anthropic, Amazon, and Microsoft are all “anchor partners” on Raise US, a new nonprofit that aims to raise $1 billion to build a national…
Months after Amazon deepened its ties with OpenAI, Amazon MGM Studios has dropped plans to release Luca Guadagnino’s star-studded movie about Sam Altman and the leadership crisis that nearly toppled him.”We believe that ‘Artificial’ will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely…
Microsoft is turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues on its GitHub coding platform following a series of AI-driven outages, according to two people familiar with the plans.GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, is a popular place for engineers to store and manage code, and…
Dave Lewis had what it took to land jobs at some of the most sought-after Big Tech companies. But after getting laid off twice in three years, he found himself grappling with where he fit into the future of tech.Lewis spent a decade at Google, was laid off by Amazon,…
Amazon is looking to minimize “tokenmaxxing.”The company is shutting down an employee-made leaderboard that tracked AI token use because it encouraged some staff to perform tasks that didn’t necessarily solve problems, just so they could climb the ranks.”Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,” Dave Treadwell, an Amazon…
More than 35 companies have laid off employees so far in 2026, continuing the trend of significant workforce reductions across a broad range of industries, including tech, media, finance, and retail.Some, including Block, Coinbase, and Standard Chartered, have cited the impact of artificial intelligence as a key reason for the…
Amazon Web Services is in talks to soon add SpaceX’s latest Grok models to its flagship AI platform Bedrock, according to people familiar with the matter.The move would deepen AWS’s push to make Bedrock the central hub for top AI models. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in turn, would gain access to…
