Reposted by Annie Palmer
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Annie Palmer
Amazon staffers tell @anniepalmer.bsky.social they feel like they’re under an “incredible amount of pressure” and “burdened with more work” than before, following waves of mass layoffs. The potential for more layoffs next year has created further anxiety. cnb.cx/47FNeym
Amazon upheaval: With morale shaken, Jassy looks for next big play after mass layoffs
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been overhauling the company's corporate culture in recent years, and went even further last week, announcing 14,000 layoffs.
cnb.cx
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Amazon staffers tell @anniepalmer.bsky.social they feel like they’re under an “incredible amount of pressure” and “burdened with more work” than before, following waves of mass layoffs. The potential for more layoffs next year has created further anxiety. cnb.cx/47FNeym
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Some great nuggets in here about what’s going on inside Amazon right now, from @anniepalmer.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/a...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/a...
Amazon upheaval: With morale shaken, Jassy looks for next big play after mass layoffs
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been overhauling the company's corporate culture in recent years, and went even further last week, announcing 14,000 layoffs.
www.cnbc.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Some great nuggets in here about what’s going on inside Amazon right now, from @anniepalmer.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/a...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/a...
Palantir's comms chief said she's concerned about its political shift toward the Trump admin, including embracing parts of Trump's agenda and inking a contract with ICE to build "ImmigrantOS"
"I think it's going to be challenging," she said.
via @jennelias.bsky.social: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/p...
"I think it's going to be challenging," she said.
via @jennelias.bsky.social: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/p...
Palantir communications chief calls the company's political shift 'concerning'
Palantir Head of Global Communications Lisa Gordon's comments come as CEO Alex Karp aligns himself further with the Trump administration.
www.cnbc.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Palantir's comms chief said she's concerned about its political shift toward the Trump admin, including embracing parts of Trump's agenda and inking a contract with ICE to build "ImmigrantOS"
"I think it's going to be challenging," she said.
via @jennelias.bsky.social: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/p...
"I think it's going to be challenging," she said.
via @jennelias.bsky.social: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/p...
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ICE and Border Patrol agents, while wearing face masks, randomly stop people on the street and demand they submit to facial-recognition technology for a citizenship check.
Via @josephcox.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Via @josephcox.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
ICE and Border Patrol agents, while wearing face masks, randomly stop people on the street and demand they submit to facial-recognition technology for a citizenship check.
Via @josephcox.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Via @josephcox.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
Amazon confirmed this morning that it's laying off 14k corporate staffers.
The massive cuts are being blamed on AI and bureaucracy bloat. Amazon is also unwinding a pandemic era hiring spree which caused its corporate and warehouse staff to balloon
More details here:
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/a...
The massive cuts are being blamed on AI and bureaucracy bloat. Amazon is also unwinding a pandemic era hiring spree which caused its corporate and warehouse staff to balloon
More details here:
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/a...
Amazon laying off about 14,000 corporate workers as it invests more in AI
The company said it's cutting roles in order to help make the company leaner and less bureaucratic, while it looks to invest in generative AI.
www.cnbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Amazon confirmed this morning that it's laying off 14k corporate staffers.
The massive cuts are being blamed on AI and bureaucracy bloat. Amazon is also unwinding a pandemic era hiring spree which caused its corporate and warehouse staff to balloon
More details here:
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/a...
The massive cuts are being blamed on AI and bureaucracy bloat. Amazon is also unwinding a pandemic era hiring spree which caused its corporate and warehouse staff to balloon
More details here:
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/a...
New: Amazon is preparing to announce sweeping layoffs beginning Tuesday that are expected to represent the largest cuts to its corporate workforce in its history.
Amazon has continued to shave its headcount after laying off 27,000+ staffers between 2022 and 2023. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/a...
Amazon has continued to shave its headcount after laying off 27,000+ staffers between 2022 and 2023. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/a...
Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon's corporate workforce in the company's history, according to a person familiar with the matter.
www.cnbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New: Amazon is preparing to announce sweeping layoffs beginning Tuesday that are expected to represent the largest cuts to its corporate workforce in its history.
Amazon has continued to shave its headcount after laying off 27,000+ staffers between 2022 and 2023. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/a...
Amazon has continued to shave its headcount after laying off 27,000+ staffers between 2022 and 2023. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/a...
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Amazon's cloud is under pressure (it's not just Monday's outage).
From newly serious competitors, from a homegrown bureaucracy, and from an artificial intelligence wave threatening to upend a market that Amazon Web Services invented.
On AWS in the AI era:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
From newly serious competitors, from a homegrown bureaucracy, and from an artificial intelligence wave threatening to upend a market that Amazon Web Services invented.
On AWS in the AI era:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Amazon’s AWS Shows Signs of Weakness as Competitors Charge Ahead
The company that basically invented the cloud business is widely perceived as trailing its rivals in artificial intelligence.
www.bloomberg.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Amazon's cloud is under pressure (it's not just Monday's outage).
From newly serious competitors, from a homegrown bureaucracy, and from an artificial intelligence wave threatening to upend a market that Amazon Web Services invented.
On AWS in the AI era:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
From newly serious competitors, from a homegrown bureaucracy, and from an artificial intelligence wave threatening to upend a market that Amazon Web Services invented.
On AWS in the AI era:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and a handful of other major technology companies are among the high-profile donors who are helping to finance Trump's $300 million ballroom, via @spencerkimball.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...
Trump White House ballroom financed by Big Tech and these other corporate donors
Big Tech and other publicly traded companies are helping to finance the $300 million White House ballroom planned by President Donald Trump.
www.cnbc.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and a handful of other major technology companies are among the high-profile donors who are helping to finance Trump's $300 million ballroom, via @spencerkimball.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...
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Just two days after Toronto denied the Mariners a World Series appearance, Seattle-based Amazon has announced a new robotics system called... Blue Jay www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/a... by @anniepalmer.bsky.social
Amazon introduces 'Blue Jay' warehouse robot that performs multiple tasks at once
The robotics system is called Blue Jay, and Amazon said it's already being deployed in one of its South Carolina warehouses.
www.cnbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Just two days after Toronto denied the Mariners a World Series appearance, Seattle-based Amazon has announced a new robotics system called... Blue Jay www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/a... by @anniepalmer.bsky.social
On the heels of the NYT report yesterday, Amazon is out with a new warehouse robot today called "Blue Jay" that can pick, sort and consolidate packages in a single assembly line-style system.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/a...
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/a...
Amazon introduces 'Blue Jay' warehouse robot that performs multiple tasks at once
The robotics system is called Blue Jay, and Amazon said it's already being deployed in one of its South Carolina warehouses.
www.cnbc.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On the heels of the NYT report yesterday, Amazon is out with a new warehouse robot today called "Blue Jay" that can pick, sort and consolidate packages in a single assembly line-style system.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/a...
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/a...
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“.. internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.”
@nytimes.com $AMZN
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
@nytimes.com $AMZN
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
October 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“.. internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.”
@nytimes.com $AMZN
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
@nytimes.com $AMZN
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
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As Benioff softens his stance on sending the National Guard to SF - Musk calls to deploy federal troops to the "drug zombie apocalypse" [disclosure: that I call home]... www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/m...
Musk calls for federal troops in San Francisco even as Benioff softens stance
With Dreamforce about to kick off in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff inserted himself into a national debate about crime in U.S. cities.
www.cnbc.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As Benioff softens his stance on sending the National Guard to SF - Musk calls to deploy federal troops to the "drug zombie apocalypse" [disclosure: that I call home]... www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/m...
Migrant laborers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia say the company hasn't followed through on its promise to reimburse them after extensive investigations found workers paid sham recruiting fees to secure contract jobs
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘We want justice’: workers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia still waiting on financial redress
Asian migrant laborers who paid predatory recruiting fees say global mega-corporation has not kept its promise to pay them restitution
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Migrant laborers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia say the company hasn't followed through on its promise to reimburse them after extensive investigations found workers paid sham recruiting fees to secure contract jobs
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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A book excerpt details the "enshittification" of Amazon, and how its "flywheel" technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants (Cory Doctorow/The Guardian)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
A book excerpt details the "enshittification" of Amazon, and how its "flywheel" technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants (Cory Doctorow/The Guardian)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Reposted by Annie Palmer
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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🚨NEW🚨 Amazon has been developing drone surveillance tech for American cops, from gun detection to repurposing Twitch's streaming code.
It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance
Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI
www.forbes.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨NEW🚨 Amazon has been developing drone surveillance tech for American cops, from gun detection to repurposing Twitch's streaming code.
It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls.
www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
"The rate of election appeals by companies in the time from Wilcox's firing to the end of August was more than double the rate filed during the same time frame last year when the NLRB was fully functional, the Reuters tally showed."
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Insight: Frozen feud: How Trump and the Supreme Court helped put historic Whole Foods union bid on ice
On January 27, workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods voted to become the first store in the Amazon-owned grocery chain to unionize. When the result was announced that night, produce worker Ed Dupree, who helped organize the monthslong campaign, ran to the produce cooler with his coworkers.
www.reuters.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"The rate of election appeals by companies in the time from Wilcox's firing to the end of August was more than double the rate filed during the same time frame last year when the NLRB was fully functional, the Reuters tally showed."
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Am curious what might be considered "high quality" AI slop: "Mr. Sahai, the OpenAI product leader, said a significant amount of content, across the quality spectrum, would be produced with Sora, but that the highest quality work would rise to the top."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/t...
OpenAI’s New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Am curious what might be considered "high quality" AI slop: "Mr. Sahai, the OpenAI product leader, said a significant amount of content, across the quality spectrum, would be produced with Sora, but that the highest quality work would rise to the top."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/t...
New: Two Amazon delivery drones crashed into a construction crane midflight in Arizona yesterday, prompting the company to suspend the service.
The FAA and NTSB are probing the incident: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/a...
The FAA and NTSB are probing the incident: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/a...
Amazon faces FAA, NTSB probe after two delivery drones crashed into crane in Arizona
The drones sustained "substantial" damage from the crash, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a preliminary incident report.
www.cnbc.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
New: Two Amazon delivery drones crashed into a construction crane midflight in Arizona yesterday, prompting the company to suspend the service.
The FAA and NTSB are probing the incident: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/a...
The FAA and NTSB are probing the incident: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/a...
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the torch has officially passed from millenials to zoomers. enjoy your turn in the sun as the whipping boy and freak show of american media, anthropologized as if being visited by aliens www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/s...
October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
the torch has officially passed from millenials to zoomers. enjoy your turn in the sun as the whipping boy and freak show of american media, anthropologized as if being visited by aliens www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/s...
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"Many of the laws don’t cover generic chatbots like ChatGPT, which are not explicitly marketed for therapy but are used by an untold number of people for it." apnews.com/article/ai-t...
Regulators struggle to keep up with the fast-moving and complicated landscape of AI therapy apps
As mental health chatbots driven by artificial intelligence proliferate, a small number of states are trying to regulate them.
apnews.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"Many of the laws don’t cover generic chatbots like ChatGPT, which are not explicitly marketed for therapy but are used by an untold number of people for it." apnews.com/article/ai-t...
New: I sat down with Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff, who returned to the Amazon-owned unit in April. He explained his decision to restore Ring's original mission to "make neighborhoods safer."
Of the scrutiny over tech and policing, he said he "backs the blue"
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/r...
Of the scrutiny over tech and policing, he said he "backs the blue"
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/r...
Ring founder 'backs the blue,' says AI is helping Amazon-owned doorbell unit fight crime
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to the company he founded in April to lead the business, which is part of Amazon's devices division.
www.cnbc.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New: I sat down with Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff, who returned to the Amazon-owned unit in April. He explained his decision to restore Ring's original mission to "make neighborhoods safer."
Of the scrutiny over tech and policing, he said he "backs the blue"
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/r...
Of the scrutiny over tech and policing, he said he "backs the blue"
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/r...