Amazon has begun construction on a massive AI data center in Gilroy, California, using a 45-year-old legal provision to bypass community voting. Local residents were not given an opportunity to comment on the project before its initiation.

Amazon is investing in a natural-gas-burning power plant in Texas, which could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. This investment is part of a larger data center project, despite the company's commitments to climate initiatives.

Amazon is investigating engineers who publicly criticized the rapid expansion of AI data centers and called for stronger government regulation. Five employees testified at Seattle City Council meetings regarding a year-long moratorium on new large-scale data center construction.

The Trump administration halted all foreign use of Anthropic's AI models following discussions between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and U.S. officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Researchers at Amazon used prompts to extract information from Anthropic's Fable 5 model that could potentially aid cyberattacks.

Amazon employees are mocking the company's AI tools on Slack, referring to the output as "slop." Despite Jeff Bezos' belief in AI's potential to drive productivity gains, employees joke about the ineffective motivation to use these tools.

A federal judge granted Amazon a temporary order blocking Perplexity's Comet AI browser from accessing its site. Amazon's lawsuit claims Perplexity concealed its AI agents to scrape the website without permission.

Amazon's ecommerce division will require senior engineers to approve AI-assisted changes following a series of outages linked to these tools. The company identified a trend of incidents with a high blast radius associated with novel GenAI usage.

Amazon held an engineering meeting in response to recent outages related to its AI services. The meeting aimed to address and resolve the issues affecting the performance of these services.

Ring has canceled its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, amid backlash regarding privacy concerns. The decision follows increased scrutiny and criticism, particularly after a controversial Super Bowl advertisement.

Amazon's Ring promoted an AI-powered surveillance network during a Super Bowl ad, framing it as a community initiative to help locate lost dogs. The ad encourages users to participate in the "Search Party" program by using their cameras for identification purposes.