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Amazon Becomes More AI Adept

Amazon recruited AI talent from startup Adept. It isn't stealing—Amazon will license technology from Adept, including AI models and datasets. Amazon's AI unit learned that the company hired Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan and "a few…

Amazon Lays Off Hundreds

According to Reuters, Amazon laid off several hundred workers in its AWS cloud computing sales, marketing, global services division, and physical stores technology teams. AWS claims that the cuts resulted from Amazon identifying a few…

Amazon and iRobot Call it Quits

In August, the news broke that Amazon would acquire iRobot. Today, they announced that they’re terminating the deal due to not getting European Union regulatory approval. Under the deal, Amazon would have invested in continued innovation by…