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Amazon now requires staff to show AI use to get promoted at Ring and some other units
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at Amazon and making big changes. His latest move injects AI evaluation into how ...
Amazon’s carbon emissions jump as AI push tests company’s climate pledge
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, the group that spurred the company's climate pledge in 2019, ripped this year's ...
Amazon’s greenhouse gas emissions are increasing.
It saw a 6 percent rise in planet-heating pollution last year, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. As it ...
Amazon targets vibe-coding chaos with new ‘Kiro’ AI software development tool
Amazon has launched Kiro, a new AI software development tool that uses autonomous agents to generate and maintain project ...
5 entry-level tech jobs AI is already augmenting, according to Amazon
One startling result from the study is this: 50 to 55% of "early-career workloads are now AI-augmented." In other words, it's ...
Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, said he expects the company to reduce its workforce over the next few years as it rolls out more ...
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Amazon gives $100M boost to AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, betting on agentic AI
Amazon is investing another $100 million in the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to help enterprises move from AI ...
AI agents will change work and society in internet-sized ways, says AWS VP
At AWS Summit, Deepak Singh, VP of developer agents and experiences at AWS, spoke with ZDNET about how agentic AI will bring ...
Amazon’s AI push is undermining its sustainability goals
Amazon’s decarbonization goals are being undermined by its push to be a leader in generative AI. Its most recent sustainability report concedes its overall carbon emissions grew for the first time ...