Hacker News with Generative AI: Amazon

James Bond's long-serving producers give control to Amazon (bbc.co.uk)
The James Bond film franchise will no longer be controlled by the Broccoli dynasty, after long-serving masterminds Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson announced they are stepping down.
Entertainment, Film, Business, Amazon
3 points by sambeau 3 hours ago | 1 comments
Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise (aboutamazon.com)
Amazon MGM Studios, Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli today announced that they have formed a new joint venture to house the James Bond intellectual property rights, and those parties will remain co-owners of the franchise.
Amazon, James Bond, Film, Entertainment, Acquisitions
46 points by croes 4 hours ago | 75 comments
Amazon Ends Support for Chime (amazon.com)
Amazon Chime is a communications service that lets you meet, chat, and place business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a single application.
Amazon, Communications, Business Software
6 points by rohanwinsor 5 hours ago | 2 comments
The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025 (amazon.com)
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Android, Amazon, App Stores, Discontinued Services
181 points by gdrift 8 hours ago | 151 comments
Amazon Chime End of Life Feb/2026 (amazon.com)
Amazon Chime is a communications service that lets you meet, chat, and place business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a single application.
Amazon, Communications, Business
23 points by shaicoleman 22 hours ago | 8 comments
Auto-Download Your Kindle Books Before February 26th (hackaday.com)
With the news that Amazon will no longer be allowing users to download their Kindle books after February 26th, many are scrambling to download their books before it’s too late.
Amazon, Kindle, Ebooks, Technology
12 points by lxm 2 days ago | 1 comments
Amazon Kills yet Another Service (neowin.net)
Amazon is reportedly killing Inspire, its short-form video and photo feed for discovering products, launched back in 2022.
Amazon, Business, Social Media, Product Development
16 points by bundie 2 days ago | 4 comments
'Reading is part of my identity': the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon (theguardian.com)
Reading, Amazon, Books, Identity, Social Media
23 points by rorylawless 4 days ago | 2 comments
Amazon workers vote against unionizing a North Carolina warehouse (npr.org)
Amazon workers in North Carolina have voted against unionizing as the retail giant once again prevailed in its fight against labor organizing.
Amazon, Labor Unions, North Carolina
28 points by RavlaAlvar 4 days ago | 16 comments
Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books (theverge.com)
Starting on February 26th, 2025, Amazon is removing a feature from its website allowing you to download purchased books to a computer and then copy them manually to a Kindle over USB.
Amazon, Kindle, Ebooks
125 points by marban 5 days ago | 104 comments
Amazon is closing USB access in Kindle that made it easy to remove DRM (androidpolice.com)
Amazon, Kindle, DRM, Ebooks, Technology
52 points by isaacfrond 6 days ago | 25 comments
Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB" (goodereader.com)
Amazon will cease the ability to download and transfer options for the Kindle e-reader on February 26th, 2025.
Amazon, E-Readers, Technology, News
128 points by m463 7 days ago | 99 comments
Amazon Studios Quietly Steps Back from Diversity Goals Amid Trump DEI Crackdown (hollywoodreporter.com)
Amazon Studios is rolling back division-wide policies aimed at boosting diversity on its series and films.
Amazon, Diversity, Film Industry, Politics, DEI
6 points by adrian_mrd 7 days ago | 1 comments
Amazon is closing a Kindle loophole that makes it easy to remove DRM (androidpolice.com)
Amazon, E-books, DRM, Technology
26 points by miles 7 days ago | 16 comments
You Can Buy a Rivian Van Now Because Amazon Flaked on Their Contract (jalopnik.com)
Anyone who owns a business and needs a delivery van has a newly available option today in the Rivian Van.
Business, Vehicles, Amazon, Rivian
4 points by rntn 10 days ago | 3 comments
Why Amazon Is Betting on 'Automated Reasoning' to Reduce AI's Hallucinations (wsj.com)
Amazon is using math to help solve one of artificial intelligence’s most intractable problems: its tendency to make up answers, and to repeat them back to us with confidence.
Artificial Intelligence, Amazon, Generative AI, Science
15 points by hackernj 11 days ago | 0 comments
In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands (thetimes.com)
Archaeology, History, Amazon, Indigenous Peoples
11 points by lareading 11 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon blew Alexa's shot to dominate AI, according to employees (2024) (fortune.com)
Former Amazon exec David Limp made Alexa a hit with consumers. But in the age of ChatGPT, Amazon's pioneering intelligent assistant can't keep up.
Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology
68 points by williamstein 12 days ago | 57 comments
Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments (nextplatform.com)
There is a bit of AI spending one-upmanship going on among the hyperscalers and cloud builders – and now the foundation model builders who are partnering with their new sugar daddies to be able to afford to build vast AI accelerator estates to push the state of the art in model capabilities and intelligence.
Amazon, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Business
49 points by rbanffy 13 days ago | 79 comments
Montreal has dropped Amazon from its list of suppliers, pledges to buy local (cultmtl.com)
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced today that the city had dropped Amazon from its list of suppliers in response to the still-looming tariff threat from the U.S. Plante pledged to buy local, or use international alternatives.
Politics, Local Government, Trade, Montreal, Amazon
24 points by petethomas 13 days ago | 9 comments
Amazon plans to spend $100B this year to capture once in a lifetime opportunity (cnbc.com)
Amazon, Investments, Business, Technology, Economy
9 points by jarsin 14 days ago | 6 comments
Lost cities of the Amazon: science is revealing ancient towns hidden (theguardian.com)
For decades, archaeologists have believed that human occupation of the Amazon basin was far older, vaster and more urbanised than the textbooks suggested. But hard evidence was scant, artefacts were scattered, and there were too few people on the ground to fully assess the magnitude of what lay cached in the dense forest. Then they found a shortcut – lidar.
Amazon, Archaeology, History, Science, Technology
4 points by Breadmaker 14 days ago | 0 comments
Conversational Alexa being unveiled on Feb 26 (9to5mac.com)
A new conversational Alexa is expected to be revealed at an Amazon media event on February 26, with press invitations sent out yesterday.
Amazon, Alexa, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Electronics
7 points by o_nate 14 days ago | 1 comments
Good engineers are right, a lot (seangoedecke.com)
Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s unclear to me how useful it is about leaders, but it’s definitely true about engineers. Good engineers are definitely right, a lot.
Engineering, Leadership, Amazon
97 points by rbanffy 14 days ago | 63 comments
Amazon sues to block public records request from Washington Post (hollywoodreporter.com)
Amazon, Lawsuits, Journalism, Privacy
14 points by anigbrowl 16 days ago | 0 comments
River dolphins launch pee streams into the air (arstechnica.com)
Amazon river dolphins may send messages with aerial streams of urine.
Animals, Biology, Amazon, Science
3 points by mallomarmeasle 17 days ago | 0 comments
Lawsuit accuses Amazon of tracking consumers through cellphones (msn.com)
Privacy, Amazon, Lawsuit, Technology, Consumer Protection
4 points by isaacfrond 20 days ago | 0 comments
DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS (amazon.com)
During this past AWS re:Invent, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared valuable lessons learned from Amazon’s own experience developing nearly 1,000 generative AI applications across the company.
Generative AI, AWS, Machine Learning, Amazon, Cloud Computing
4 points by cebert 21 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon sues WA state over Washington Post request for Kuiper records (geekwire.com)
The company that Jeff Bezos founded has gone to court to keep the newspaper he owns from finding out too much about the inner workings of its business.
Amazon, Lawsuits, Journalism, Space, Business
14 points by _JamesA_ 21 days ago | 0 comments
Bookshop.org is launching an eBook store to take on Amazon (theverge.com)
Local bookstores should benefit from ebooks, too, Bookshop.org thinks. Making that happen at scale will take a fight.
E-commerce, Books, Competition, Amazon
28 points by divbzero 23 days ago | 9 comments