Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade

Insider Brief Amazon Web Services has introduced an AI-powered startup advisor and a new automated migration platform as it looks to help founders build, deploy and move applications onto AWS with less technical overhead. The company said the tools use AI to automate cloud planning, infrastructure decisions and migration tasks that have traditionally required specialized […]

The design hasn’t changed much from the original Proteus, which was announced in 2022. | Image: Amazon Amazon has announced a new version of its fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that will can interact using language instead of code. The expanded capabilities come as part of a growing pivot toward automation as the e-commerce giant replaces its human workers with robots. Amazon says the AI-powered upgrade means its human employees can assign the robot tasks in the same way they'd communicate with colleagues. Previously, workers would need to use specialized software to direct the floor-level, tortoise-like systems, which are designed for heavy lifting and moving large carts throughout Amazon's warehouses. "You tell it what needs to … Read the full story at The Verge.

Measure expected to pass next week represents major rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over AI boom grows Seattle’s city government is on the verge of passing a year-long ban on the construction of new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium as nationwide backlash grows. Four companies sought to build five large datacenters in areas serviced by Seattle’s public utility; if approved, they would have consumed approximately a third of the city’s current daily demand for electricity. Continue reading...

Cloud data giant Snowflake has committed $6B to AWS through 2032, reflecting growing confidence in future demand for its platform. The deal is the latest example of how the biggest […] The post Snowflake’s $6B AWS Bet Signals Where Enterprise AI Spending Is Headed Next appeared first on AIwire.

Amazon's updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app feature only surfaces AI images of clothing and home goods, allowing you to tap on the image that best matches what you're looking for and search for similar-looking items. In a blog post, Amazon positions the feature as a way to help you search for items if you can't remember the name of a specific texture or style, like describing a "shirt with a draped collar" if you can't think of "cowl neck." The feature seems like it might come in handy in these kinds of scenarios, but it doesn't really add much if you're just searc … Read the full story at The Verge.

Amazon will use visual search and AI to show AI generated product images that match your search queries. The retailer says it will help guide users to products.

The global AI market feels more Orwellian than Dickensian these days, with headlines hitting our feed like AI contributed “basically zero” growth to US GDP (2025). This latest revelation represents a series of increasingly worrisome disappointments: 95% of GenAI pilots fail (MIT), Amazon’s Kiro agent sparks 13-hour outage by deleting [...] The post What leaders learn when AI meets reality appeared first on SAS Blogs.

A quick search through headlines reveals a range of AI-related disappointments. Consider that 95% of GenAI pilots fail, according to MIT. Amazon’s Kiro agent recently sparked a 13-hour outage by deleting a production environment. And we can’t forget that the resource and energy strain from a new wave of AI [...] The post Reviving the promise of AI with RAG, data and agentic appeared first on SAS Blogs.