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Tech Giants Scale Back Diversity Efforts Amid Criticism

February 4, 2025
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Meta and Amazon are scaling back their diversity programs, joining firms across corporate America that are retreating from hiring and training initiatives criticized by conservatives, citing legal and political risks. The moves come shortly after Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, said it was ending a fact-checking

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Amazon Secretly Tracks Consumers’ Location Data

February 1, 2025
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A proposed class action lawsuit out of California alleges Amazon has secretly embedded software in third-party mobile apps to track and sell data about consumers’ whereabouts. The 12-page lawsuit claims Amazon has contracted with tens of thousands of app developers to have its computer code—known as the Amazon Ads software

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Tech Giants Eye DeepSeek AI

January 28, 2025
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Jan 28 – The tech sector is experiencing a significant shake-up. Rosenblatt analysts are weighing the benefits for companies like Meta, Apple, and Amazon due to the debut of DeepSeek’s R1 AI model. There are claims that DeepSeek’s high-performance AI can be delivered at a fraction of OpenAI’s costs, and

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Trump Clashes with EU

January 24, 2025
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President Trump called out the European Union for its antitrust battles with American tech giants, saying the billions of dollars in fines they’ve levied against US companies amount to a tax on American corporations. Trump made the comments during a virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,

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Amazon Invests $4B More in Anthropic, Expands AI Partnership

November 24, 2024
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Amazon deepens its partnership with AI leader Anthropic, investing $4B more to advance generative AI innovation with Claude models.

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Amazon Checkout Stuck in Limbo During Labor Day Sale Frenzy

August 31, 2024
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Amazon’s checkout function encountered technical issues on Friday, keeping customers from completing purchases. The e-commerce site displayed error messages with photos of dogs during the outage as people posted about it on social media.

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UK Investigates Amazon’s AI Partnership with Anthropic

August 8, 2024
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UK's CMA investigates Amazon's $4B investment in AI firm Anthropic, assessing potential competition impacts.

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