Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data

The decision by Amazon-owned MGM Studios to drop the OpenAI movie is just part of AI and film industries becoming increasingly intertwined. On Uncanny Valley, we look at where this is all headed.

Wired AI·1d ago

‘We created a monster’: companies rein in AI as costs strain budgets

Amazon, Walmart and Uber are among early adopters that have introduced caps or discouraged wasteful activity amid mounting computing costs.

Australian Financial Review·4d ago

Your youngest employees may be your most valuable AI teachers

Senior leaders still hold experience and judgment, but younger employees increasingly hold the practical AI skills transforming work.

Fast Company·Jun 19

Amazon's AWS openly criticises AI coding hype, says it can slow teams down

AWS has surprised social media users by arguing that more AI-generated code does not automatically make developers more productive and can sometimes slow teams down. The viral post comes as parent ...

MSN on MSN·Jun 10

Improve your agent’s tool-calling accuracy with SFT and DPO on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, you learn how to use Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) together to improve the tool-calling accuracy of a small language model (SLM). The example...

AWS ML Blog·Jun 3

Amazon's AI push backfires after employees drive up costs

Amazon's attempt to encourage greater use of artificial intelligence tools among employees produced an unintended outcome. Instead of improving efficiency, some workers increased AI activity simply...

People Matters·May 31

Amazon engineers who spoke out against AI data center expansion say they are now under investigation by their employer

Amazon is denying allegations it threatened to fire employees who spoke out against AI data centers at a Seattle city council meeting ...

Moneywise on MSN·3d ago

Amazon AI search generates images from text descriptions

by Valentin Podkamennyi — Amazon launches a generative AI search tool that creates real-time images based on user descriptions to improve product discovery.

Towards AI·5d ago

Amazon, Walmart and Uber curb employee AI use as costs surge

Crypto Briefing·Jun 19

Hands-free first notice of loss: Using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool for intelligent claims intake

In this post, we demonstrate how a hands-free FNOL intake system combines agents built with the Strands Agents SDK for domain reasoning with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool for live portal...

AWS ML Blog·Jun 9

Internal AI Leaderboard Scrapped at Amazon Following Employee Manipulation

Amazon has officially scrapped its internal AI-powered employee leaderboard following widespread reports of internal manipulation ...

TechStory·Jun 3

Amazon pushes AI use and closely tracks adoption, as some employees push back

Business Insider·May 31

Big Tech Is Starting to Limit Employee AI Usage. Here’s Why.

by Solara Times — Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, Walmart and Cisco are scaling back unrestricted employee access to AI tools after months of aggressive…

Medium·4d ago

Welcome to the age of AI sprawl

Employees are having to learn to use dozens of AI tools — it's driving them crazy.

Insider on MSN·5d ago

Multiverse opens Edinburgh hub with ex-Amazon AI chief

IT Brief UK·Jun 11

It’s safe to close your laptop now: Hosting coding agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime gives each agent session its own isolated microVM with a persistent workspace, secure tool access through Gateway, and built-in observability—so you can run Claude...

AWS ML Blog·Jun 8

Amazon workers reportedly built a rogue AI agent to waste tokens after managers pushed harder AI use

"While high token usage doesn't directly translate to results, nothing happens if tokens aren’t used at all." ...

The Cool Down on MSN·Jun 1

Amazon joins Microsoft in sending AI message to employees

Amazon, Microsoft, Uber and Meta reversed course on AI token metrics. Here is what Amazon's KiroRank shutdown means for enterprise AI spending.

TheStreet on MSN·May 31