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  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

    Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it It’s not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, that we once loved?…

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  • All Amazon Fresh stores in UK to close

    Company confirms plan to shut 19 shops with stronger focus on Whole Foods outlets after concept of stores without tills fails to catch on Business live – latest updates Amazon is preparing to shut down all of its Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, just four years after the US tech company launched its first…

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  • Too tricky to cancel: Amazon faces US trial over alleged Prime subscription deceptions

    E-commerce giant accused of using tricks to enroll millions into membership and making it nearly impossible to cancel Amazon went to trial on Monday in a US government lawsuit that accuses the e-commerce giant of using tricks to enroll millions of customers in its Prime subscription service and then making it nearly impossible to cancel.…

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  • Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more

    Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far The US’s largest companies have spent 2025 locked in a competition to spend more money than one another, lavishing $155bn on the development of artificial intelligence, more than the US government has spent…

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