Amazon Requires Kindle Publishers to Disclose AI-Generated Content


Amazon is rolling out Alexa+ free to all compatible US Fire TV devices, no Prime needed. It adds conversational search, smart home control and AI recommendations. Previously limited to newer Fire TVs with non-Prime users paying $19.99/month, now no extra subscription needed.....
U.S. media exposed an AI cost control incident at Amazon: Engineers used Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model to handle routine tasks such as matching authors with product data, resulting in an $18 million bill, exceeding the budget by 860%. The project was delayed for five months and ultimately failed to be implemented, leading to massive waste due to high computing power consumption.
Amazon is strategically scaling back its AI R&D, halting active development of most Nova models, including flagship models and video/image generators, shifting to maintenance for existing customers. This follows the disbanding of its AGI division and closure of related labs. Proprietary models struggle to compete, so Amazon pivots to infrastructure strength, building Amazon Athena—a unified platform to integrate third-party cutting-edge models fo....
Amazon is secretly developing an AI agent project "Moonraker" as an extension of Alexa Plus. This technology breaks the limitation of single instructions, deeply understands compound requests, and automatically executes multi-step operations in logical order, such as completing tandem calls with one command.....
Amazon announced that it will invest an additional 13 billion USD in India by 2030, focusing on expanding AWS data centers in Mumbai and Hyderabad, and strengthening its AI and cloud service capabilities.