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Google and Amazon this week reported sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions, driven by the frantic construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure that is pushing the tech giants further from their carbon neutrality pledges. Google’s total emissions, disclosed on Tuesday, have jumped 82% since 2019, and more than 18% just last year, even though it has…
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Amazon.com Inc. reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of content last year that it believed included child sexual abuse, which it found in data gathered to improve its artificial intelligence models. Though Amazon removed the content before training its models, child safety officials said the company has not provided information about its source, potentially hindering law enforcement from…
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Cognizant and eight other major corporations have been questioned by U.S. Senators for filing thousands of H-1B skilled labour visa petitions after conducting “mass layoffs” of American employees. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and ranking member Richard Durbin have also questioned Amazon, Apple, Deloitte, Google, JPMorgan Chase, Meta, Microsoft, and…
An Indian startup founder’s story of how he went from generating a revenue of Rs 20 lakh per day to almost losing everything is going viral on social media. Shared by Grapevine founder Saumil Tripathi on X (formerly Twitter), the story shows how e-commerce giant Amazon capitalised on the founder’s business model and managed to…
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Samir Kumar was a part of the original team that planned and launched Amazon.in in 2013. New Delhi: E-commerce giant Amazon on Wednesday announced that Samir Kumar will take on the responsibility to lead India as its country manager, following the resignation of Manish Tiwary. According to a leadership update by the company, Mr Kumar…
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CEO Andy Jassy said they are also going to bring back assigned desk arrangements (Representational) Amazon.com said on Monday it would require employees to return to the office five days per week, effective January 2, 2025. “We are also going to bring back assigned desk arrangements in locations that were previously organized that way, including…
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A report by Senator Bernie Sanders’ office found Amazon failed to adequately staff its warehouses during peak shopping times. | Photo Credit: AP Amazon’s popular Prime Day sales event has been “a major cause of injuries” for warehouse workers who pick and pack customer orders at the e-commerce giant’s facilities across the United States, according…
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Amazon has provided over 200,000 pages of data in response to the subpoena (Representational) A New York federal judge has ordered Amazon.com to comply with a subpoena from a U.S. civil rights agency investigating claims that the online retailer discriminated against pregnant warehouse workers. U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield in Manhattan late Thursday rejected Amazon’s…
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He sold shares worth roughly $8.5 billion in February, after the stock rallied 80% in 2023. Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos is planning to sell almost $5 billion worth of shares in the e-commerce giant, a regulatory filing showed, after its stock hit a record high. The proposed sale of 25 million shares…
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Sellers joining the bargain site can determine product selection and pricing, the report said. (File) Amazon.com plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China, the Information reported on Wednesday, citing slides shown to Chinese sellers. The new marketplace, Amazon’s most aggressive…
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