Stephen Arnold: Three Here and Now Amazon Management Milestones

Three Here and Now Amazon Management Milestones July 21, 2021, is a day of Amazon management milestones. In my newsfeeds this morning, I noted three items. Obviously none or some or all of these “real news” stories could be falsification from the fecund multi-verse. Who knows? Perhaps the error corrected Google quantum computer’s “supremacy” or …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon- Where Does It Get AI Technology?

I saw an interesting table from Global Data Financial Deals Database. What’s interesting is that Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft were active purchasers of AI companies. I understand that “taking something off the table” is a sound business tactic. Even if the AI technology embodied in a takeover is wonky, a competitor cannot take advantage of …

James Fetzer: Anne Hendershott on Amazon’s Double-Standard

Amazon’s Double Standard on Book Bans When Amazon quietly removed Ryan Anderson’s best-selling book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, from its site last week, the bookseller gave no reason for the removal. But given the ascendancy of the transgender movement on the left and in the Biden administration, it is likely that Amazon has decided that …

Penguin: Elastic Open Source War on Amazon

This Software Giant Declared War On Amazon. Will Other Open Source Companies Follow? https://web3-0.org now open and being loaded. https://ose-21.org now open pending loading. https://world-brain.net now open pending loading.

Stephen E. Arnold: What Is Next for Amazon Netradyne?

What Is Next for Amazon Netradyne? I noted the “real” news outfit CNBC story “Amazon Is Using AI-Equipped Cameras in Delivery Vans and Some Drivers Are Concerned about Privacy.” The use case is monitoring drivers. I have heard that some drivers work like beavers. Other comments suggest that some drivers play fast and loose with …