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US politics
fromwww.npr.org
14 hours ago

Big budget Melania Trump documentary premieres with splashy rollout

Amazon bought and heavily marketed a big-budget Melania Trump documentary with an unusual wide theatrical rollout amid questions about cost and potential political motives.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
4 days ago

I helped create Alexa, then quit Amazon. Here's why, despite being proud of what we built.

William Tunstall-Pedoe founded True Knowledge (Evi), helped build Alexa after Amazon acquired his startup, and left Amazon in 2016 to return to startups.
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

'It felt so wrong': Colin Angle on iRobot, the FTC, and the Amazon deal that never was | TechCrunch

The goal, of course, is to avoid the abuses that can happen in monopolies and with the goal of protecting consumer choice and protecting innovation. What happened was that iRobot and Amazon came together for the expressed purpose of creating more innovation, more consumer choice, at a time when iRobot's trajectory was honestly different from where it was several years earlier.
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Tech industry
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

How iRobot lost its way home | TechCrunch

iRobot grew from MIT research into a household brand with Roomba but collapsed into Chapter 11 after 35 years amid manufacturing and acquisition struggles.
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fromZDNET
6 months ago
Gadgets

Can Amazon finally make AI wearables happen? This buzzy new device could be its best bet

fromZDNET
6 months ago
Gadgets

Can Amazon finally make AI wearables happen? This buzzy new device could be its best bet

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Wearables
fromEntrepreneur
6 months ago

Amazon Acquires Bee, Startup Behind Eavesdropping Wearable | Entrepreneur

Amazon plans to acquire AI wearable startup Bee to enhance its presence in the AI device market.
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