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Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.
News
'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack
Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.
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Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
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Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address
Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.
AI
Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitler's Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves.
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Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust
In response to an NLRB complaint, Amazon argues that preventing it from holding captive-audience meetings violates the U.S. Constitution.
Court Watch
FBI Uses January 6 Rioter’s Self-Published Amazon Book as Evidence Against Him
The Kindle book has been taken down by Amazon but the author's children's books remain up.
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California Fines Amazon $6 Million for 59,017 Separate Warehouse Violations
The citations allege that Amazon did not provide workers with written performance quotas.
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Amazon’s AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds
The report finds that Amazon workers in robotic warehouses feel more isolated at work, which makes it difficult to unionize.
News
Amazon Kills Shareholder Proposals on Worker Protections and AI Oversight
The proposals requested increased transparency on working conditions and freedom of association. Amazon recommended that shareholders vote against them.
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Amazon Workers Use Bots to Claim Limited Supply of Time Off
Numerous bots on Github claim to allow Amazon workers to auto-collect voluntary time off work.
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Amazon Driver Saves Woman’s Life, Rewarded With Pizza Party and Laptop
“It’s always ‘An Amazon Driver’ when they do something good, and ‘a third party Amazon driver’ when it’s bad.”