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Chief Tech Correspondent @businessinsider covering Amazon. Email: ekim@businessinsider.com or ekim@insider.com.
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'Please turn it off.' Amazon's push to automate warehouse staffing runs into human resistance.

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Amazon is testing software to decide where warehouse workers should go. Some managers keep ignoring it. Internal planning documents show the tech giant intends to expand these labor-management systems across dozens of its North American fulfillment centers and sort centers, where they could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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Amazon documents reveal a costly new Alexa AI project

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Amazon's next Alexa AI upgrade may be able to handle more complex tasks. Getting there is expensive, though. Internal planning documents reviewed by Business Insider show Amazon is working on a previously unreported Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks for users. Moonraker pushes Alexa into the AI agent race. Alexa+, its AI-powered assistant, already lets users book rides or buy tickets through partners such as Uber and Ticketmaster.
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Forget Apple. Amazon just made AI a lot more expensive. Original

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Amazon raised prices for several key AI cloud offerings, the latest sign that memory chip shortages are driving up the cost of some technology. Amazon Web Services recently announced price increases for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. This is a cloud service that lets companies reserve GPUs in advance. The changes mean hourly rates for renting several types of cloud servers will jump by roughly 20% starting in July. AWS had already raised prices for the same service by about 15% in January.
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