Amazon continued its fight against counterfeit goods in 2024 by using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, seeing that counterfeiters are held liable and increasing brands’ use of its brand protection features. The company’s AI tools that proactively block infringements stopped more than 99% of suspected infringements...
Amazon has filed a lawsuit in response to a regulator’s ruling governing product recalls. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in January found that Amazon was responsible for the recalls of items sold on its site. The commission had found last year that Amazon...
Amazon plans to start helping dealers sell used cars as well as new ones, according to Fan Jin, director and general manager of Amazon Autos. Speaking on the Tuesday (March 18) episode of the Automotive News Daily Drive podcast, Jin said that adding used inventory for dealers is “really...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says staffing cuts could delay its case against Amazon. As CNBC reported Wednesday (March 12), attorneys for the regulator have asked a judge to hold off on the start of a trial into whether Amazon had tricked customers into signing...
Amazon is aiming to derive savings from its robotics investment as it ups AI spending. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Feb. 26), the tech giant is expected to spend $35 billion on its retail network — which includes robotics-powered warehouses — to drive...
Amazon said Thursday (Feb. 20) that it stopped offering Amazon Coins and will discontinue both Amazon Coins and the Amazon Appstore on Android Aug. 20. “Starting Aug. 20, 2025, you will no longer have access to the Amazon Appstore on your Android device,” the company...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) told customers Wednesday (Feb. 19) that it will no longer accept new customers for its collaboration solution, Amazon Chime, and will stop supporting the service in a year. “After careful consideration, we have decided to end support for the Amazon Chime...
Amazon is no longer offering Inspire, the social commerce feature with a video and photo feed of products that it added to its mobile app in 2022. “Thank you for using Amazon Inspire to discover and shop new products on Amazon,” a page on the company’s website said....
Amazon is reportedly pushing back the release of its updated Alexa, part of a string of delays for the virtual assistant. While the company still plans to publicly unveil the new version of Alexa on Feb. 26, a report Friday (Feb. 14) by the Washington...
