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Meta Muse's AI shopping agent stopped at an Amazon shopping interfaceAI

Amazon Blocks Meta Muse From Shopping on Amazon.com

Amazon blocks Meta Muse from shopping on Amazon.com, saying the AI agent was unauthorized and raising concerns about transparency, credentials, and control.

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Amazon employee benefits illustration showing a $20 hourly starting pay increase alongside grocery and banking benefits.Industry

Amazon Raises U.S. Starting Pay by $1 to $20, Adds Grocery and Banking Benefits

Amazon is raising eligible U.S. operations pay by $1 to $20 an hour while adding grocery discounts and a new lifetime banking benefit.

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Grok 4.6 available on Amazon Bedrock for long-running AI agentsAI

Grok 4.6 Amazon Bedrock Support Adds 500K Context

Grok 4.6 Amazon Bedrock support brings xAI's latest model to AWS with a 500K-token context window and configurable reasoning for long tasks.

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Promotional image showing YouTube and Peacock content side by sideApps

YouTube Bundles Peacock Premium Into Its Subscription Starting Early 2027

YouTube Peacock bundle lands early 2027, adding ad-supported Peacock Premium to YouTube Premium for US subscribers, per a joint announcement Monday.

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Amazon Prime Video interface showing the new Games tab powered by Luna cloud gaming, with game tiles including Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FCApps

Amazon Adds Luna Cloud Games to Prime Video - Hogwarts Legacy, EA Sports FC Available on Fire TV Today

Amazon embedded its Luna cloud gaming service inside Prime Video today. Fire TV owners in the US and UK can play Hogwarts Legacy and more without a console.

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A Kobo e-reader on a wooden table in front of a shelf of physical books in an indie bookstoreIndustry

Bookshop.org Partners With Kobo to Give Indie Bookstores a Native E-Reader Channel

Bookshop.org partnered with Kobo to bring indie bookstore ebooks to Kobo devices natively. Amazon's DRM walls and retail stake mean Kindle won't follow.

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Abstract visualization of video frames being processed and indexed by AI, representing TwelveLabs's Marengo 3.0 multimodal video embedding modelAI

TwelveLabs Raises $100M and Signs AWS Trainium Deal to Scale Video AI

TwelveLabs raised $100M Series B with Amazon signing on as preferred cloud partner - new models will optimize for AWS Trainium and launch there first.

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Maria Ressa, Yoshua Bengio, and Ambassador Egriselda López pose for a portrait ahead of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, July 2026AI

UN Convenes 193 Countries in Geneva for First Global AI Governance Dialogue

UN AI governance talks opened July 6 in Geneva. 193 countries. Big Tech CEOs. A scientist warning of catastrophic harm. No binding rules from this week.

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Person working on a laptop completing micro-tasks, representing Amazon Mechanical Turk's 21-year crowdsourcing marketplace closing to new customers on July 30, 2026AI

Amazon Mechanical Turk Closes to New Customers July 30 After 21 Years

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers July 30. No new features planned. Existing users keep access to the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform.

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Engineers collaborating at laptops in a modern office, representing AWS forward-deployed engineering teamsAI

AWS Launches $1 Billion Forward-Deployed Engineers Unit to Embed With Customers

AWS committed $1 billion on June 30 to a new forward-deployed engineering unit that sends engineers to embed inside customer organizations for 45-day periods.

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