Amazon is redesigning Prime Video with more AI, but will it fix what frustrates viewers?

Amazon is testing an AI-driven Prime Video redesign that could shift paid studio placement toward algorithm-based rankings, raising questions about whether recommendations will genuinely improve for viewers.

Amazon is bringing games to Prime Video

Amazon is hoping the addition of games can turn Prime Video into a one-stop entertainment destination, borrowing a strategy from Netflix, which has increasingly embraced party games over the past several years.

A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon
A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon

The email was not meant to be public. Writing to a small-business owner on Staten Island, a researcher for the Senate Small Business Committee said Republican staff had been probing “Amazon negligence related to Chinese influence and have found compell…

Jeff Bezos is pushing an AI-first Prime Video redesign, and studios may end up paying for it
Jeff Bezos is pushing an AI-first Prime Video redesign, and studios may end up paying for it

Jeff Bezos has found a new place to advertise Amazon’s artificial intelligence, and it happens to be the screen where you were hoping to watch a film. Amazon’s executive chairman is pushing a redesign of Prime Video, known internally as Lighthouse, mea…

Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron

Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eig…

An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion

AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A unit pricing error in the AWS Billing Console’s estimated billing computation subsystem was the cause, Amazon confirmed. One…

Amazon’s Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove into heavy smoke at an active fire scene
Amazon’s Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove into heavy smoke at an active fire scene

Amazon’s Zoox voluntarily recalled software in 105 of its robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle drove into heavy smoke at an active emergency fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20. The smoke obscured the scene, which had not been cordoned off with cones. …

Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud

Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said. The move covers the applications Airbus needs to keep running a…

HTC’s smart glasses are apparently coming to the US, but HTC hasn’t said so

Amazon briefly listed HTC’s VIVE Eagle smart glasses for a September 1 US launch at $499, then removed the pages before HTC had confirmed the expansion beyond Taiwan.

Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland
Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland

Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk’s Starlink in his home country. Musk has refused the Black-ownership rules Amazon appears willing to meet. Jeff Bezos is about to beat Elon Musk in Musk’s ow…