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My husband went through the Amazon Pivot process. It was crushing to watch him cry over losing his job.

Sat, 02/03/2024 - 07:09

Workers talk in the lobby of an Amazon office in New York — The wife of an Amazon corporate worker said she was sad to watch her husband go through the company's performance-improvement program known as Pivot.
Mark Lennihan/Associated Press

Careers, as-told-to, amazon-pivot, amazon, Careers, Jobs, firings

Congress Might Actually Do Something About AI, Thanks to Taylor Swift

Fri, 02/02/2024 - 16:45

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.

Taylor Swift, OpenAI, audio deepfake, amd, amazon, Joe Biden, meta

Spotify needed Joe Rogan. And Joe Rogan needed Spotify. So they're sticking together.

Fri, 02/02/2024 - 14:58

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek (left) and podcast host Joe Rogan. — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek (left) and podcast host Joe Rogan.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images

Media, spotify, Media, joe-rogan, podcast, apple, amazon

Tim Cook Teases Big AI Announcement for Apple Later This Year

Fri, 02/02/2024 - 13:15

I’m pretty sure we all saw this coming. Why would Apple, out of all companies, not participate in, as Gizmodo reporter Kyle Barr puts it, the AI-ification of everything? During an earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he thinks there is a “huge opportunity for Apple with generative AI and AI,” hinting that the…

apple, Tim Cook, OpenAI, artificial neural networks, Artificial Intelligence, generative pre trained transformer, worldwide developers conference

Meta and Amazon add $270 billion in market cap — more than Netflix is worth

Fri, 02/02/2024 - 09:40

Mark Zuckerberg presents at the Meta Connect event in September 2023. — Mark Zuckerberg presents at the Meta Connect event in September.
Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

Markets, Tech, mi-exclusive, Markets, Stocks, stock-market-analysis, stock-market-outlook

Amazon named its new chatbot Rufus after a Welsh corgi that a couple often took to the office

Fri, 02/02/2024 - 06:24

Amazon Corgi — A Welsh corgi called Rufus (not pictured) was often taken to the office by two early Amazon staff.
Peter Byrne/PA/Getty Images

Tech, trending-uk, amazon, AI

Amazon is launching a chatty AI assistant called Rufus to people become smarter shoppers

Thu, 02/01/2024 - 18:06

amazon — Amazon shoppers will get a more personalized experience.
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Tech, amazon, AI, Retail

In cloud, there's AI (which is hot) and everything else (which is not)

Thu, 02/01/2024 - 11:56

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (R) speaks as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (L) looks on during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (right) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Justin Sullivan / Getty

Tech, amazon, AWS, Cloud, cloud-computing, artificial-intelligence, Microsoft

Live updates: Amazon to report 4th-quarter earnings

Thu, 02/01/2024 - 10:01

amazon warehouse worker boxes — MediaNews Group/The Riverside Press-Enterprise via Getty Images

Tech, amazon, amazon-earnings, q4-earnings, q4-earnings-season, AWS, amazon-web-services

Cancel Your Amazon Prime Account, Coward

Wed, 01/31/2024 - 13:10

Last night, I flipped on Prime Video to watch a movie and, like millions of other streamers across the world, was promptly greeted with a commercial.

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