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Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
March 11, 2026
Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’. When Dina, a software developer based in New York, joined Amazon two years ago, her job was to write code. Now, it’s mostly fixing what artificial intelligence breaks. The internal AI tool she’s expected to use,…
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US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters
March 5, 2026
Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising bills Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge at the White House on Wednesday to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their datacenters. The agreement is meant to help mitigate concerns…
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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
February 26, 2026
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives There’s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms, misinformation, polarisation, mining and misuse of personal…
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Hail our new robot overlords! Amazon warehouse tour offers glimpse of future
February 6, 2026
At its new Stone Mountain, Georgia, facility, Roomba-like robots shuffle between stacks, another adds shipping labels while another arranges packages in pallets One of the reasons Amazon is spending billions on robots? They don’t need bathroom breaks. Arriving a few minutes early to the public tour of Amazon’s hi-tech Stone Mountain, Georgia, warehouse, my request…
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Amazon tells workers it will cut 16,000 jobs worldwide in second big wave of layoffs
January 28, 2026
Workers informed after message erroneously said affected employees in US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been told Business live – latest updates Amazon has told workers it is cutting 16,000 jobs around the world to streamline its operations, hours after sending out a message to staff about the layoffs apparently in error. It is…
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‘We could hit a wall’: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward
January 17, 2026
Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI Will the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty – or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the…
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When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
December 23, 2025
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction must prompt a global conversation about intelligent machines, regulation and risk If AI did not change your life in 2025, next year it will. That is one of few forecasts that can be made with confidence in unpredictable times. This is not an…
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More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate
November 29, 2025
Workers say the firm’s ‘warp-speed’ approach fuels pressure, layoffs and rising emissions More than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter expressing “serious concerns” about AI development, saying that the company’s “all-costs justified, warp speed” approach to the powerful technology will cause damage to “democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.” The letter,…
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How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism | Yanis Varoufakis
November 28, 2025
Amazon Web Services owns the basic infrastructure for other businesses to operate online, turning even governments into its serfs. But now some people are fighting back For the past six years, every Black Friday – that made-up carnival of consumption – Amazon workers and their allies have mobilised across the world in coordinated strikes and…
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‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast
November 24, 2025
Tech critic Cory Doctorow explains why for so many the internet – from Amazon to Google to Instagram – seems to be getting worse Do you ever get the feeling that the internet isn’t what it used to be? Well, tech critic Cory Doctorow thinks you’re right – and he has a term to describe…
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