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Amazon wants to power AI shopping assistants at other online stores.

The ecommerce giant is now selling access to the tech behind its Alexa for Shopping assistant, giving other retailers — like Kate Spade — abilty to build their own AI shopping chatbot. Amazon says its AI shopping interface can offer personalized recommendations with images and pricing, as well as answer store policy questions.

An update on Google's "disregard" issue.

Since Friday, Google hasn’t shown an AI Overview for the word "disregard." The term was making AI Overviews "disregard" instructions instead of giving an AI search result summary.

AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation

As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.

Sony’s Bravia 7 II makes a statement

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Amazon Sells Its AI Shopping Tech to Retailers Via AWS

AWS has launched the Agentic Shopping Assistant, packaging the technology behind Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping into a solution other retailers can deploy in roughly 60 days. Kate Spade is the first customer, with an AI Gift Concierge running on Anthropic’s Haiku 4.5 through Amazon Bedrock.

This Week in the Big AI Data Center Buildout

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

Why AI hasn't replaced every 'automatable' job

AI hasn't replaced many jobs yet because most work still includes messy, human tasks AI can't do, "80,000 Hours" president Benjamin Todd said.

Here’s how Google is responding to Fitbit users who don’t like the new Health app

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AI curing cancer has become a meme. This Google researcher is actually trying to do it.

Google Research chief Yossi Matias explains how the company's AI Co-Scientist tool could accelerate breakthroughs in disease research.

Robinhood will let your AI agent trade stocks and make (or lose) lots of money

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Airis Labs Comes Out of Stealth with $60M and a Video-Intelligence Pitch to Defence Agencies

The Tel Aviv-founded defence-AI firm has closed a $31M Series B led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $60M as it scales US operations from Washington DC.

Robinhood will let AI trade stocks and buy stuff for you

There's a new way to make a fortune, lose it all or end up somewhere in between — and it can happen while you're sleeping.