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    Amazon is buying up physical books and destroying them for AI

    Amazon has been caught buying physical books in bulk, shipping them to a Las Vegas facility, and cutting off their bindings to scan them for AI training before destroying the originals. An investigation by 404 Media used an AirTag to track a book to the warehouse, and Amazon later confirmed the operation is used to improve products like its Nova models. It underscores how tech giants are scrambling for pristine, pre-AI text as internet data runs dry.

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    Amazon’s $50B bet on government AI

    Amazon just announced a massive investment of up to $50 billion to build dedicated AI and supercomputing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies. Slated to break ground in 2026, the expansion will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity across classified AWS regions, opening up tools like Trainium chips and Bedrock. Why it matters: Big tech is fiercely competing for defense and public-sector workloads as agencies modernize their mission critical workflows.

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    Amazon's new AI agent will buy from rivals for you

    Amazon just began testing "Buy for Me," an AI shopping agent powered by its Nova models and Anthropic's Claude that browses third-party stores and completes purchases. If Amazon lacks an item, the agent securely auto-fills shipping and billing info on external sites without leaving the app. Returns still go through the third-party seller, and it is currently limited to select users.

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    Amazon's smarter Alexa hits a hallucination wall

    Amazon's major revamp of Alexa is running into serious technical roadblocks, according to the Financial Times. Rohit Prasad, head of Amazon's AGI team, admitted that hallucinations must drop "close to zero" alongside cutting response lag and integrating hundreds of third-party apps. Insiders warn a launch won't happen anytime soon.

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    Amazon drops Nova AI models to undercut rivals on price

    Amazon just unveiled Amazon Nova, its new lineup of foundation models spanning text, multimodal reasoning, and image/video generation. Available in Amazon Bedrock, the Micro, Lite, and Pro models claim to be the fastest in their classes while slashing costs by at least 75%.