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A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to reporting by Financial Times. This happened in December after engineers deployed the Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, say four people familiar with the matter.
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Allegedly, the coding assistant decided to “delete and recreate the environment” that was causing problems.
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As major companies around the world start incorporating AI into virtually all aspects of their operation, things are bound to get a little wonky from time to time.
