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Amazon expands ultra-fast deliveries in UK and adds same-day fruit and veg

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Deliveries in 30 minutes or less coming to Manchester and Birmingham and fresh groceries service to start in London Amazon is expanding fast-track deliveries in the UK, including adding fresh fruit and vegetables to same-day services, after closing its standalone grocery stores.The firm said it would expand Amazon Now, its ultra-fast delivery service that already

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EU proposes to block foreign providers using ‘kill switch’ to disrupt vital tech across Europe

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European Commission aims to reduce ‘risky dependencies’ on foreign suppliers in cloud computing, AI and semiconductor productionThe EU executive wants to ensure no foreign government or company has access to a “kill switch” to turn off or disrupt vital tech services across the continent, as part of an effort to cut dependencies on the US

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‘Like a billionaire on acid’: Star Wars director Gareth Edwards comes out in favour of AI

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Speaking at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said ‘it’ll do anything you ask’ and ‘it’s going to be better than CGI’Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has enthusiastically endorsed the use of generative AI in film-making, saying “it is a fucking genius at helping you”

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The devil owns Amazon: big tech has infiltrated the fashion world – will we see a revolt?

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Anna Wintour has welcomed the Bezoses – and their patronage – with open arms. But after a controversial Met Gala, industry insiders are less enthusiasticThe press conference for the Met Costume Institute’s spring exhibition is always a stately affair, but this year it was giving “feudal lady addresses her serfs” or perhaps “Marie Antoinette during

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Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping as Rufus moves behind the scenes

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Amazon has introduced Alexa for Shopping, combining its Rufus shopping chatbot with Alexa+ across its app, website, and Echo Show devices. The assistant can answer product questions, compare items, track prices, and support shopping reminders. It can also handle scheduled shopping actions and eligible automated purchases. The company said Alexa for Shopping combines Rufus’ product

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Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools

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Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out

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Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools

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Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out

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Europe’s AI translation industry told it risks reputation by partnering with US firms

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Partnership between top startup DeepL and Amazon comes amid concern about Silicon Valley’s monopoly over digital infrastructureAI companies in Europe risk losing their world-leading status in the field of machine translation, industry figures have said, after the decision by one of the continent’s leading startups to partner with Amazon’s cloud computing division provoked alarm.While businesses

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Silicon Six: How Big Tech Avoided $278 Billion in Tax

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The Silicon Six avoided $278bn in US taxes over a decade. Here’s how Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, Netflix & Microsoft did it — and why it keeps happening. The post Silicon Six: How Big Tech Avoided $278 Billion in Tax appeared first on 1redDrop.

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OpenAI ends its exclusive partnership with Microsoft

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Since Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI back in 2019, the exclusive partnership between the two firms has been one of the strongest and most consequential in the AI industry. Today, though, OpenAI and Microsoft jointly announced an amended agreement that will allow the company to go beyond Microsoft’s Azure and “serve all its products

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