Amazon has sent a cease-and-desist letter accusing Perplexity AI of using its Comet browser agent to make purchases on Amazon without authorization, prompting Perplexity to fire back with a public statement alleging bullying and intimidation from the e-commerce juggernaut.

The e-commerce giant sent a nasty cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, accusing it of "computer fraud" in violation of its policies.

Andy Jassy explains Amazon’s 14,000 layoffs, buying Nvidia chips, upcoming Trainium3 AI chips, AWS capacity and sales growth, and its Bedrock AI agent platform.

Are We in an AI Bubble? Here's What We Learned From Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet, and Microsoft. The large tech companies all made major announcements that stock market investors will not want to miss.

The job cuts come as Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has said he envisions the company relying on AI agents to replace human workers.

Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth.

It’s clear that Amazon and Microsoft are operating from the same playbook. While surely a number of factors are at play here for both, it’s equally clear their recent layoffs are, at least in part, a direct consequence of their embrace of AI.

Amid a flurry of tech industry layoffs, Amazon’s recent culling of some 14,000 staff stands out for one dramatic reason: it was blamed, for the most part, on advances in AI — a technology that Amazon Senior Vice President Beth Galetti wrote was “the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet,