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Image: hanoniki, Sundry Photography, Kristi Blokhin (Shutterstock)As the artificial intelligence wave continues to pick up steam, there are plenty of organizations looking to cash in—while others are being more careful. While chatbots like ChatGPT can be a miracle assistant for some, companies that hold proprietary code or sensitive customer information need to be more careful. When a user inputs data into a large language model like ChatGPT, that data can get sent back to the model so it can improve itself. While OpenAI…

Flashing your palm over an Amazon One device will signal to the bartender that you are of legal age to drink, along with a photo of you for verification. Image: AmazonAmazon One, the palm scanning tech that you can use to pay at Panera, has gotten an upgrade. The payment technology can now verify the age of its user, allowing customers to purchase drinks without having to pull out their IDs.Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'Amazon announced the new feature today on its website. The company said that the age verification feature…

Amazon will use AI to map where items are in demand in order to fulfill nearby warehouses with those items. Image: Frederic Legrand - COMEO (Shutterstock)In its bid to continue dominating online commerce, Amazon is enlisting artificial intelligence to help. The company is reportedly using artificial intelligence to map whereproducts are in-demand to increase delivery speed.Uh Oh, Amazon Bought Your Favorite Robot CompanyAmazon vice president of customer fulfillment and global ops services Stefano Perego described the…

Amazon has a lot of rules for its delivery drivers: clipped nails, no body odor, clean ears, etc... These strict requirements govern everything from personal grooming to online activity (couriers wearing the Amazon uniform are barred from posting anything obscene). The company also sets its drivers’ wage minimums, delivery schedules, routes, and metes out discipline.Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'It’s so much micromanaging that it’s almost hard to believe that none of these workers are actually employed by Amazon. Instead,…

Photo: AmazonAmazon Prime Video announced a new Dialogue Boost feature on Tuesday that will allow viewers to turn up the volume for character dialogue in some movies and TV shows. The feature was originally pitched as a way to assist hard-of-hearing viewers by increasing the actors’ voices and toning down the background noise, but Amazon’s announcement acknowledges its usefulness to more general audiences as well.Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'The company made it clear on its site that Dialogue Boost is available to any…

Amazon is planning to cut ties with its online book store, Book Depository, which is based in the UK and has been a part of the conglomerate for more than two decades. The announcement comes as Amazon is working to cut costs and has laid off 18,000 employees this year and will reportedly lay off another 9,000 in the coming weeks, CNBC reported.Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'Book Depository has been a part of Amazon since 2007 but will close its doors on April 26, however, the company says customers can still place their…

An unaffiliated Amazon consultant pleaded guilty to handing out more than $100,000 in commercial bribes since 2017. Ephraim “Ed” Rosenberg was charged alongside five others for paying bribes to Amazon employees in India who in return, would provide some Amazon merchants with a heightened advantage for selling goods on the platform.Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'Rosenberg made his plea on Thursday, admitting that he had bribed company employees, and apologized for the crime in a LinkedIn post on Monday. “On some occasions, I…

Amazon announced plans to lay off 18,000 employees earlier this year. Image: Sundry Photography (Shutterstock)Earlier this year, Amazon planned to lay off 18,000 employees. Now a leaked audio from the company appears to indicate that the company may regret that decision. In the audio, an HR executive chews on a strategy to rehire employees that have been laid off.Insider revealed the audio in a report Tuesday, and says it was recordedduring an internal town hall meeting last month. An employee allegedly asked Ian Wilson,…

Reports indicate that the marketplace could be open to Amazon customers on April 24. Image: Casimiro PT (Shutterstock)Amazon is reportedly gearing up to launch an NFT marketplace, likely dubbed “Amazon NFT Marketplace” or “Amazon Digital Marketplace,” that may be available to customers in April.The NFT marketplace was first detailed by Blockworks in January, but details were scant—that same month, Web3 design company Ava Labs announced its partnership with Amazon on Twitter. While there’s been no official announcement…

Image: Quinn Rooney (Getty Images)Amazon is pausing construction on its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia on Friday. The company told Gizmodo the delays aren’t impacting phase one of construction, but only phase two, which is slated to be a building across the street.Zach Goldsztejn, an Amazon spokesperson, clarified in a phone call with Gizmodo that the phase two construction pause is not due to the company’s “role eliminations” earlier this year, but instead was because the phase one building created a large…