Amazon Launches AI Shopping Guides to Make Discovering Products Easier
AI Shopping Guides are automatically suggested during searches or can be accessed through the “Keep Shopping For” card on the Amazon homepage.
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Amazon Unveils Next-Gen Robotic Warehouses
At the core of the new warehouse is a system called Sequoia, which can store over 30 million items. It works in tandem with thousands of mobile robots and robotic arms to move products through the facility.
Amazon To Equip Vehicles with AI-Powered Package Tech to Speed Up Deliveries
VAPR projects a green circle onto packages meant for the current delivery stop and a red X on others. This visual cue, combined with audio feedback, allows drivers to quickly identify the right items without manually sorting or checking labels.
UK Competition Authority Clears Amazon's $4 Billion AI Deal with Anthropic
Despite some expectations that Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic might trigger further investigation due to its scale, the regulator found that Anthropic’s UK revenue did not exceed the £70 million threshold required to launch a deeper inquiry.
A First Look at Amazon’s New AI Video Generator for Advertisers
By lowering the barriers to video and animated content creation, Amazon aims to enhance the shopping experience for customers while providing advertisers with powerful new ways to showcase their products.
How Amazon is Personalizing Your Shopping Experience with Generative AI
Instead of generic suggestions like "More like this," customers might see more specific options such as "Gift boxes in time for Mother's Day" or "Cool deals to improve your curling game."
Amazon Unveils Project Amelia, an AI Assistant for Sellers
Project Amelia leverages generative AI to offer a range of capabilities, including answering knowledge-based questions, providing status updates and metrics, and assisting with issue resolution.
Amazon’s New ‘Remarkable Alexa’ to Be Powered by Anthropic’s Claude AI
The partnership could mirror Apple's strategy, announced at WWDC in June, which integrates ChatGPT into Siri as part of the new Apple Intelligence suite in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia.
UK Launches Formal Probe into Amazon's $4 Billion Anthropic Deal
The CMA will spend the next 40 working days (until early October) determining if Amazon's investment creates a "relevant merger situation" that could harm competition within the U.K.
Amazon Releases Titan Image Generator v2 with Enhanced Creative Controls
The standout additions to Titan Image Generator v2 include image conditioning, color palette control, background removal, and subject consistency.
Amazon Hires Adept AI Founders, Licenses Their Tech
David Luan, Adept's co-founder and CEO, is jumping ship to lead Amazon's "AGI Autonomy" team.
Amazon Considering Premium AI-Powered Alexa for $5 to $10 per Month
The current free version, “Classic Alexa,” will remain available, but a premium tier powered by advanced AI capabilities will be offered for a monthly fee.
Amazon Commits $230 Million to Invest in Generative AI Startups
This comes as Amazon seeks to catch up with Google and Microsoft, and further secure its foothold as a key player in the highly competitive generative AI landscape.
Amazon Using Generative AI to Check Packages for Defects Before They Ship
When a defect is identified, the system isolates the product to prevent it from being shipped. Amazon associates then review the flagged items and determine the best course of action, such as discounting it for resale on Amazon's Second Chance platform, donating it, or finding another use for it.
Amazon Q Developer is Now Generally Available
In addition to generating code, Amazon Q can autonomously perform comprehensive tasks such as feature implementation, documentation, refactoring, and software upgrades.
Amazon Unveils Powerful Generative AI Tools for Businesses: Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q in QuickSight
The assistant connects to over 40 commonly used business tools, such as wikis, intranets, Atlassian, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, and Amazon S3, enabling users to access all their data regardless of where it resides in their organization.
Amazon Maestro Will Let Listeners Make Playlists With AI
This follows a similar introduction by Spotify, which recently rolled out its AI Playlist feature to Premium users in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Amazon Appoints Andrew Ng to Board to Bolster AI Leadership
The appointment comes as Amazon CEO Andy Jassy emphasized the transformative potential of generative AI in his recent shareholder letter, suggesting it could be the company's next major growth pillar alongside its established Marketplace, Prime, and AWS businesses.
Amazon Completes Massive $4 Billion Investment in AI Startup Anthropic
Amazon's $4 billion investment in Anthropic marks a significant milestone in the company's AI strategy and underscores the growing importance of generative AI in shaping the future of technology and business.
6 Ways AWS and NVIDIA Are Partnering to Drive Generative AI Innovation
The partnership aims to provide customers with the most secure and advanced infrastructure, software, and services to unlock new AI capabilities.
Amazon's AI Can Create a Product Listing From a Website URL
This initiative is part of Amazon's broader effort to use AI to reduce the workload on sellers while simultaneously improving the quality of product listings.
Amazon Launches Rufus, Your Personal AI Shopping Assistant
The assistant draws on Amazon's extensive catalog data, customer reviews, and Q&As as well as information from across the web.
Amazon's New AI Tool "Diffuse to Choose" Lets You Virtually Try Products In Any Setting
For consumers, it means the ability to place any item from an online store into their own living space or personal context, seeing how it fits and looks in real-time.
Amazon Bets on AI to Enhance Pharmacy Experience
Powered by multiple, pre-trained models from Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMake, the company believes AI can help set a new industry standard for convenience and accessibility.