An AirTag hidden in a rare book followed its journey to a Las Vegas warehouse, where it was likely destroyed in an effort to supply fresh data to hungry LLMs. Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI Image credit: jarmoluk at Pixabay I don't know if you've noticed, but everything is becoming increasingly AI-generated

alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process

Amazon's triple-digit discounts on the current M4 iPad Air range deliver the lowest prices of the season

Amazon's $120 AirPods Max 2 discount is the steepest seen since Prime Day 2026

Amazon has "reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against the online retailer," reports Bloomberg, "inserting a legal buffer between itself and plaintiffs attorneys that it removed five years ago." In an email sent to customers on Friday, the company said a new "arbitration agreement and class-action waiver" will require shoppers to resolve disputes outside the courts but said they could still file small claims, cases that typically limit damages to a few thousand dollars..

Oracle, once viewed as a potential winner of the booming AI infrastructure buildout, has since raised concerns among investors who appear to view the firm as taking on too much financial risk to fund its projects. Wall Street has cautioned that mega-cap tech firms may be taking on too much spending to match growing demand for AI products, with firms like Amazon expecting to spend more than $200 billion

When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.

Amazon's MacBook Pro sale delivers price drops on every 2026 model, with this best-selling configuration $300 off heading into the weekend

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The Pentagon has a limited-access 'Amazon' for counter-drone weapons, with Anduril and DroneShield listing products and an AI that recommends purchases.

Twitch will begin allowing Amazon to use streamers' content to train generative AI models by default, requiring creators to manually opt out if they don't want their videos and audio included

Apple's loaded 13-inch M5 MacBook Air is down to $1,649 at Amazon and B&H, a $150 discount on the 24GB/1TB configuration in today's price war

Users of the popular streaming platform criticised allowing Amazon to use their data by dafault.

Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work

Whether you need a portable, around-the-house entertainment center or a full-on laptop replacement, these are the best Android tablets.

The streaming platform's users criticised the move to allow the use of channel content for AI training.

Live streaming platform Twitch is now allowing Amazon, its parent company, to use streamer content to train generative AI models, with the feature enabled by default

Twitch now lets streamers block Amazon from using their broadcasts, clips, and other channel content to train generative AI

Amazon is handing off MMOs Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to other publishers.

There's now an opt-out toggle for something that should have been opt-in to begin with.

Amazon has Boox e-ink tablets and e-readers on sale for as much as 16% off.

Inventory constraints continue to plague the M4 Mac mini line, but Amazon has two models with delivery dates in the near future, and one of them is on sale, too

Acer's Predator Helios Neo 18 AI gaming laptop hits a new all-time low price at Amazon

Amazons planned Texas AI data center could emit 33 million tons of CO annually, exceeding the emissions of Americas largest polluter.

With preseason football about to commence and back-to-school shopping in full swing, sales at LG and Amazon slash up to 45% off OLED TVs and monitors for your Mac

AMD's marketing director shared a screenshot of the Amazon CPU best sellers list, but the four-year-old, $80 Ryzen 5 5500 was at the top of the charts.

See how the new M4 iPad Air compares to the best tablets from Lenovo, Samsung, Microsoft, and Amazon Fire.

Amazons use of 45-year-old zoning rules have enabled it to avoid public planning scrutiny in Gilroy, California.

Amazon is unsurprisingly fighting measure to stop use of contractors for last-mile delivery in NYC.

"The change is a direct result of Google's litigation with Epic, which saw a judge rule in 2024 that the Play Store would have to open up to third-party stores," notes The Verge. The change makes rival storefronts far easier to discover and install, potentially opening the door for Epic, Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft and others to distribute their own app stores through Google's store

Ready for a driverless, carriage-like ride? Amazon's robotaxi Zoox launches first paid service in the U.S.

Nvidia's graphics processing units, or GPUs, underpin most of the leading US AI models available today. [...] The biggest cloud-computing companies, including Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon, have dramatically increased their spending on AI infrastructure as they look to win the race to dominate the emerging technology

Intel's 20-core Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is down to its lowest price ever on Amazon, selling for just $154 on sale.

Sebuah konsortium yang turut disertai oleh Jeff Bezos, iaitu pengasas Amazon kini dilaporkan dalam perbincangan untuk membeli satu pertiga daripada pegangan pada kelab bola sepak popular, Liverpool FC

Amazon is building a natural gas power plant for a big Texas data center that could be the most pollutant one in the country.

Amazon is reportedly building a 7.65GW natural gas power plant in Texas to feed a new AI data center, with permits allowing up to 33 million tons of CO emissions per year.

Amazon is again offering steep price cuts on Apple's current MacBook Pro line, with a $500 discount in effect this weekend on a high-end M5 Max model with a spacious 2TB SSD

The Washington Post shared surprising news this week about five top AI companies. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle "are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they're expected to bleed cash in the coming year, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence." Free cash flow, which measures the cash left over after paying expenses and AI infrastructure costs, is now expected to shrink to almost nothing for the five companies combined in 2026, and decline again to negative $125 billion the following year..

Residents of Gilroy, California, were caught by surprise when an Amazon data center started construction in their city

Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers.

Details have leaked about OpenAI's new hardware, and by all accounts, it's going to be shaped and sized a lot like a second-generation Alexa Dot, be battery-powered, and retail for between $300 and $400. Amazon Echo Dot, second generation The rumor mill has been loaded with rumors about OpenAI's hardware

Many deals end this weekend. Save up to $200 on Apple's M5 MacBook Air today - Image credit: Apple Both Amazon and B&H are running back-to-school deals on M5 MacBook Air notebooks, resulting in discounts of up to $200 off

Amazon has launched a steeper AirPods Pro 3 discount this August, dropping the earbuds to a 30-day low of $189.99

Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsersand managed to get OpenAIs Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.

It's the company's first commercial market after Zoox started offering free rides to the public in parts of Las Vegas and San Francisco less than a year ago.

Apple's powerhouse 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 Max chip and 40-core GPU is $500 off today, the largest discount currently available across the 16-inch lineup. Save $500 on Apple's loaded 16-inch MacBook Pro at Amazon - Image credit: Apple Amazon is slashing $500 off Apple's premium 16-inch MacBook Pro with a top-of-the-line M5 Max chip

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Amazon's Prime Video streaming service will be the first one to use Samsung's newest HDR10+ Advanced format on "supported titles globally" beginning later this month

Amazon's public fight with Perplexity over online shopping started in November 2025.

Amazon's Claude Sonnet deployment cost $1.8 million, 860% over budget, exposing broader AI spending issues despite the company's continued experimentation defense.

NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors .

The list can be a harbinger of tougher action. A ban could also raise costs for American cloud firms such as Amazon Web Services, as it may force them to transition to other producers such as U.S.-based Coherent and Lumentum

August Apple deals are in full swing at Amazon, with savings of up to $500 off across Mac, iPad, AirTag, and Apple Watch categories

The complaint alleges Amazon's third-party delivery model leads to lower wages, unfair working conditions and a lack of competition.

Amazon, syarikat yang terkenal dengan penawaran edagang, hari ini mencatat sejarah tersendiri apabila lonjakan dagangan saham membawa kepada nilai pasaran syarikat tersebut mencapai $3 trilion

TCL unveiled the Tab A1 Plus and its Nxtpaper variant in early March at MWC, and now the Nxtpaper version is finally available in the US. You can grab it from TCL's online store for $299.99 for a limited time during the companys Back to School sale, or from Amazon

And of course, Henry Cavill is involved.

Cramer said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy finally explained how Amazon's massive AI spending will generate long-term returns.

OnePlus has nearly sold its last US phone, with its own store empty and Amazon only offering third-party options.

Amazon linked a North Korean hacking group to software supply chain attacks while warning generative AI is changing malware development techniques.

Shares of Amazon hit a new all-time high Monday, putting its market cap over $3 trillion.

This Anker 100W GaN charger is 29% off on Amazon, with dual 100W USB-C ports, a USB-A port, and a built-in display.

In his Sunday column, Jim Cramer explains why Amazon is his favorite hyperscaler after second-quarter earnings season.

Unable to see more than a few reviews for a product on Amazon? Youre not alone.

Ben Affleck launched an AI film tech company then sold it to Netflix for half a billion dollars. When launching InterPositive, Affleck said he wanted to keep "storytelling human" by building AI tools that could fix lighting, generate missing shots and other things while "keeping creative decisions in the hands of artists...." Disney, Netflix and Amazon had job postings that were about using AI on the creative side of the business

This followed 11 successive quarters of increasing growth rates, during which the market has now doubled in size... "AI has, of course, driven most of that incremental growth, and we now see year-on-year growth rates of 165 percent for AI-specific cloud services...." And the top three global players continue to dominate the market, with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud together accounting for 67 percent of all the cloud revenue during the quarter

The AI gamble sweeping up American fortunes is led by tech companies splurging on hulking data centers packed with computer chips and equipment needed to develop sophisticated AI models and deliver them to customers. In investor calls in the past week, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon pointed to soaring AI-related sales and business deals

Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla all reported negative cash flow in the latest quarter, while Meta's cash generation plummeted by 91%.

Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have collectively spent more than $1 trillion on AI investments since the rush started in 2023

A top seller that's priced at a 30-day low, Amazon's M4 Pro Mac mini deal is both on sale and available to ship in 1-2 days

However, the company didnt specify when these refunds to eligible shoppers would be processed.

Shares of Amazon jumped sharply in premarket trading on Friday while Apple dropped as investors digest earnings.

The NHTSA has given Amazon's Zoox permission to charge for rides

Billions of dollars are being poured into a new wave of AI technology

"Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies"

The company previously hadn't disclosed whether it would recoup tariff costs after the Supreme Court ruled many of President Donald Trump's levies were illegal.

AWS sales expanded 37% year over year, which trounced analysts' expectations for 31% growth.

Amazon Web Services announced new business with Meta and OpenAI in the quarter.