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Tony Hoggett, Amazon's "grocery chief." Photos: Flickr/Tesco and Getty Images. Art: Shane Burke.

Amazon-owned livestreaming site Twitch has a “role to play” in training its parent company’s generative AI models, a top Twitch executive said Tuesday at The Information’s Creator Economy Summit. The comment underscores how access to training data has become a key element in the race to improve AI .Asked whether Amazon uses Twitch to train AI models, Twitch Chief Monetization Officer Mike

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday laid off a few hundred employees in its division that works on technology for physical retail stores, as well as several hundred more people in its sprawling sales, marketing and global services division, a company spokesperson said.AWS is making cuts in its physical retail tech group one day after The Information reported that Amazon plans to remove its Just

General Atlantic co president Anton Levy. Photo by Nicole Pereira

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As logistics company Flexport looks to turn itself around after messy executive drama and a broader freight market slump last year, it’s leaning on an increasingly important customer: China-founded fast-fashion giant Shein.

Instant-delivery pioneer Gopuff is the last speedy-delivery startup left standing in the U.S. after its best-funded competitor, Getir, said last week it would pull out of the country. That’s left Gopuff in the same position it was in 10 years and billions of dollars ago: trying to beat DoorDash. ...

Amazon plans to launch an Irish version of its e-commerce site in 2025, the company said Thursday. It’s the latest sign that the company is moving forward with some international expansion plans that it had slow-walked during CEO Andy Jassy’s cost-cutting efforts over the past couple of years.Irish Amazon customers have been able to order from Amazon’s U.K. site and other international

Amazon’s Zoox self-driving taxi subsidiary is under investigation by the U.S. government’s transportation safety agency after two collisions, according to a notice posted Monday.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it’s investigating two cases in which Toyota Highlanders using Zoox’s autonomous driving technology “unexpectedly braked suddenly, leading to rear-end

A truck enters a large regional Walmart distribution center in Washington, Utah. Photo by George Frey/Getty Images.