Google spent $2.7 billion (₽254 billion) to bring back one IT specialist.

Noam Shazeer left the company in 2021 after Google refused to launch his AI chatbot. Just a year later, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, dominating the AI market.

Shazeer didn't waste any time and founded his own startup, CharacterAI. Now, Google has bought his company for a huge amount of money to bring the developer back.

Amazon is expanding its collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

In 2025, Amazon will launch a fellowship program where postdoctoral researchers from MIT will work directly with Fulfillment Technology & Robotics teams.

This collaboration aims to identify new practices for scaling automation across our operations, ensuring that as we deploy new systems, Amazon continues to improve the employee experience.

Amazon will now be sorting pills.

Amazon Pharmacy is making it easier for customers to manage multiple medications with the launch of a new PillPack feature. Amazon Pharmacy customers can now have their eligible medications—three or more—pre-sorted into convenient pill packets, and have them delivered to their door. This new offering extends the PillPack. com service, while offering new savings, a simpler sign-up experience, and faster delivery.

Amazon acquired PillPack. com in 2018 and has continued to operate the service as a separate offering. Integrating the PillPack offering allows customers to benefit both from the affordability of Amazon and the convenience of PillPack.

With PillPack, customers receive their medications packaged into personalized, tear-away packets organized and labeled by date and time. This eliminates the hassle of managing multiple pill bottles and helps people stick to their prescribed routines. The medication packing service is free and includes a monthly delivery of a pre-sorted roll of medications and 24/7 access to a pharmacist. Prime members also enjoy significant savings on medications through RxPass and the Prime prescription savings benefit.

California's governor has vetoed an AI bill.

It could have become the legal foundation for AI regulation in the U.S.

According to the SB 1047 bill companies would have been required to test AI technologies for potential risks to humanity.

The current version of the bill would have significantly slowed the development of innovative technologies: startup development would have become too risky, as it's impossible to foresee all potential threats.

Amazon’s ‘The Sims’ Movie Will Include Freezer Bunnies, Pools Without Ladders and ‘A Lot of Lore,’ Says Video Game Boss.

“The Sims” movie adaptation from Amazon MGM Studios has been officially confirmed by video game maker Electronic Arts.

EA formally announced the project Tuesday, along with a slew of other reveals about the future of “The Sims” franchise, which is being produced by “Barbie” star Margot Robbie‘s production company LuckyChap with Kate Herron, who helmed “Loki,” set to direct the movie and co-write with Briony Redman.

“Teaming up with renowned Hollywood powerhouses, this exciting new chapter for ‘The Sims’ will bring its magic to millions more fans,” EA Entertainment president Laura Miele said. “It’s a testament to the enduring power of this beloved franchise, which has captivated more than 500 million players for a quarter of a century. Our commitment to innovate across ‘The Sims’ universe of experiences and products will inspire all generations of Simmers.”

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took second place on the list of the richest people in the U.S.

The fortune of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is estimated at $197 billion, placing him second on the Forbes list.

In third place is Mark Zuckerberg, whose wealth has reached $181 billion due to the sharp rise in his company's stock value. American businessman Elon Musk, despite a decrease in his wealth, remains the richest person in the U.S. for the third year in a row.

Amazon is hiring an additional 250,000 employees for the peak season.

The online giant Amazon is hiring 250,000 employees in the U.S. for full-time, part-time, and seasonal roles in fulfillment and transportation. The company is investing $2.2 billion in additional wages for fulfillment and transportation employees, resulting in an average total compensation exceeding $29 per hour, factoring in the value of selected benefits (such as healthcare from the first day of employment).

All seasonal workers earn at least $18 per hour and have access to comprehensive benefits, such as health insurance, as soon as they begin working.

TON community has joined forces in an initiative called TON Memelandia.

Created by TON Community and supported by TON Foundation and TON Society, TON Memelandia is a decentralized utopia where memecoin communities thrive, compete, and create

As an example of the power of memecoins, in August 2024, TON shattered a blockchain record thanks to $ DOGS. Over 17 million users claimed $ DOGS tokens, with single-day transactions peaking at 14.4M.

The secret of success of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been revealed.

Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, confirmed her partner remains committed to slow mornings, adding, “We don’t get on our phones. That’s one of the rules.”

Why has Bezos banned screen time for the first hour after waking? It’s likely that his one-hour rule is partly about personal preference. We’re all wired differently when it comes to our fluctuating energy levels and tolerance for stimulation, and experts insist we do better when our routines honor our particular rhythms rather than fighting them.

But Bezos claims his puttering doesn’t just help him enjoy life more. In the same 2018 speech, he insisted his slow-burn, phone-free mornings improve his energy levels and decision-making abilities all day long.

The latest neuroscience suggests he’s on to something with this claim. Less online mornings lead to smarter, healthier days, and new research strongly suggests more of us should steal Bezos’s one-hour rule.

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Coming soon to marketplaces worldwide?

A resident of Poland has created a case that transforms an iPhone into an old gadget running Windows 95.

The retro attachment is already being sold online and can be 3D printed.

6 things you should never do in an Amazon job interview.

Want to work for Amazon? Remember the basic rules of the online giant that you should adhere to during the interview:

1️⃣ Arriving late

Punctuality is highly valued at Amazon. Showing up late, even by a few minutes, can create a poor first impression.

2️⃣ Speaking negatively about your current employer

While you may feel the impulse to go into detail on why you left your previous role or why you’re looking for a new one due to a negative situation, remember that it's most important to offer direct responses to the questions hiring managers ask you. At Amazon interview questions are behavioral-based.

3️⃣ Appearing unprepared

Lack of preparation looks different for everyone and can manifest itself in different ways throughout the interview process. The first is a lack of understanding of which Amazon team you’re interviewing with.

4️⃣ Providing vague or irrelevant answers

For interviews hr of Amazon recommend candidates format their responses using the STAR method to answer behavioral-based interview questions, incorporating examples representative of Amazon’s Leadership Principles.

5️⃣ Providing answers or asking questions that are discriminatory in nature

Candidates need to be extremely mindful of their language and avoid making any comments that could be seen as stereotyping, prejudiced or discriminatory towards protected groups. This includes race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

6️⃣ Sharing confidential work-related information

Amazon looking for candidates that demonstrate a strong alignment with our Leadership Principles which includes showcasing integrity throughout your interview process (and future employment). You can rest assured, Amazon will never ask you to discuss or disclose any confidential information or data during the course of your interview.

Amazon sellers are getting ready for Halloween.

Amazon has stocked up on items for celebrating Halloween on October 31. You’ll find hanging bats, a 200-inch spider web, and the Spirit of the holiday in the form of a sitting scarecrow.

Amazon is cutting back on packaging.

As of October 2024, Amazon removed all plastic air pillows from our delivery packaging used at global fulfillment centers. As part of this transition, Amazon able to quickly expand our use of paper filler made from 100% recycled content across North America to replace plastic air pillows, biggest reduction in plastic packaging in North America to date.

Amazon continues to innovate to create new paper-based packaging for products. This includes the new paper-padded envelope with a shock-absorbent, 100% paper-based lining, available in Europe. The ridged lining keeps products in the envelope safe, and absorbs stress put on the package during its journey to customers’ homes. This new paper-padded envelope is 100% recyclable in household recycling.

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for discoveries in the field of neural networks.

The prize winners were John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. Both physicists began their work with neural networks back in the 1970s.

American scientist John Hopfield is known for developing “associative memory” - a method that allows images and data to be restored even if they are partially distorted. The approach is based on the physical properties of atoms and involves searching for the “most similar” among the remaining data.

The Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, created the Boltzmann machine, a neural network that can recognize key elements in images. In 2012, Hinton, together with Ilya Sutskever, developed a neural network capable of analyzing arrays of photographs and recognizing objects in them.

Hamster died?

Now one Hamster Kombat is selling for $0.0038. Two weeks have passed since the listing of the token - the price has already fallen by 70%.

Amazon has shown what a workday for the Proteus robot looks like.

Proteus is one of the hardest-working robots at Amazon. It moves packages around fulfillment centers so they can be loaded onto trucks that transport them to the next stage of the fulfillment process. Proteus doesn’t need barriers or stickers. It has sensors that allow it to navigate the work area and quickly stop when something gets too close.

This could be a cart, a chute, another robot, or even a person. On a typical workday, Proteus works two shifts of around 10 hours each. The Proteus robot was invented back in October 2022 and was Amazon's first autonomous mobile robot at the time.

A giant plush remote from the Nintendo museum is being sold on eBay.

The Nintendo Museum opened in the company’s hometown of Kyoto, and it is already limiting some gift shop items to one per person in an attempt to discourage visitors from flipping exclusive merch online.

The two-story museum highlights the company’s history dating back to 1889, when Nintendo started making hanafuda playing cards. It also features interactive exhibits letting visitors play Nintendo games in unusual ways, including using oversized NES controllers and Wii Remotes that need two people to operate.

What’s generated even more buzz than the museum’s exhibits are the exclusive items available in the museum’s gift shop. Some of the items, which were available during preview events at the museum, have already shown up on sites like eBay with huge markups. A giant plush Wii Remote is currently going for $474, while a complete set of controller cushions, including the Super Famicom and N64, is asking $1,399.

"The Achievements of Kamala Harris" have stunned Americans.

A book with the same title about the Vice President is gaining popularity on store shelves in the U.S. "The Achievements of Kamala Harris" consists of 191 blank (!) pages. The annotation states that this is the most comprehensive description of Harris’s 20-year political career, aimed at convincing readers to vote for her as a presidential candidate.

The book has already received a high rating on Amazon, and the Republican PR campaign behind it is rightfully considered one of the most successful of the current election cycle.

In 2023, Amazon proactively blocked more than 250 million suspected fake reviews from its stores worldwide.

Amazon pursues people who attempt to profit off of fake reviews. The company filed its first lawsuit against fake review brokers in 2015, and continues to pursue fraudsters through legal means. In 2023, Amazon pursued legal action against more than 150 bad actors attempting to engage in review abuse across the U.S., China, and Europe.

In July 2024, Amazon filed its first ever joint lawsuit against review brokers with the Better Business Bureau (BBB). The lawsuit seeks to hold an illegitimate business called ReviewServiceUSA. com accountable to the full extent of the law, and prevent them from facilitating fake reviews targeting Amazon’s store, the BBB, and other legitimate companies and organizations.

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A company called OpenAI sues a company called Open AI.

The case, formally named OpenAI Inc. v. Open Artificial Intelligence Inc., showed up on the docket for the US District Court in Northern California, to zero fanfare, in August of last year. Companies with near-identical names entangled in a lawsuit usually means trademark infringement—more the makings of a one-liner than a riveting story.

Still, it did involve the OpenAI, the generative AI kingpin and maker of ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft Corp. to the tune of (at the time) $13 billion.