Amazon develops a warehouse robot workers can speak to

Amazon is offering its AI shopping technology to other retailers through a new Agentic Shopping Assistant built on AWS, with Kate Spade among the first brands to use it. The service allows retailers to build AI shopping assistants for their own websites and apps. Amazon said each deployment can be customised to a retailer’s catalogue, […] The post Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade appeared first on AI News.

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...

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.

The exploit affected hundreds of accounts and raises new questions about what happens when companies automate account security.

The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring's Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.