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Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Kate Clark and Lauren Thomas reported the talks, citing people familiar with the matter.
Nicolas Cage says he refused to sign an AI waiver from Amazon for “Spider-Noir”, the Prime Video series it cancelled last month. He told a New York Comic Con panel on Saturday that he will probably not work with the studio again, Variety reported.
Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite and says service is weeks away, having cut production from 27 satellites in six months to 27 a week, while the number in orbit is still 396.
Amazon will spend more than $1bn over the next five years in US communities that host its data centres. Matt Garman, chief executive of Amazon Web Services, announced the programme, called Built Together, in a post on Friday, along with new commitments on power, water and transparency.
Amazon’s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures “almost constantly” on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property.
Amazon has launched a faster Fire TV Stick 4K with a redesigned remote, running its own Vega operating system rather than Android. That switch also removes sideloading, and the Digital Markets Act cannot require Amazon to restore it, because none of its operating systems is designated.
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