In his report, Sanders noted that Amazon is much too big to be held accountable by current maximum penalties for workplace safety violations, which are just over $16,000. Penalties for 50 violations for one two-year period were just $300,000, Sanders said, which was “approximately 1 percent of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s total compensation in 2023.” […]
December 16, 2024 | Amazon, amazon labor union, amazon warehouse workers, bernie sanders, national labor relations board, nlrb, Policy, unfair labor practices | No comments
Fear not—there’s no one-click option, so no one should be in any danger of absent-mindedly buying a brand-new Palisade. Instead, there’s a “Begin Purchase” button, at which point you can choose to pay the entire amount or finance the purchase. Here is a huge difference to the traditional dealership experience: There’s no negotiation, no browbeating […]
December 10, 2024 | Amazon, Amazon Autos, Cars, hyundai | No comments
In a statement to Ars, Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said that claims that Amazon’s “business practices are somehow discriminatory or deceptive” are “categorically false.” Nantel said that Amazon started using third-party services to deliver to these areas to “put the safety of delivery drivers first.” “In the ZIP codes in question, there have been specific […]
December 4, 2024 | Amazon, Amazon Prime, Policy, unfair business practices | No comments
I hope everyone survived the weekend shopping experience and no one was eaten by ravening bands of deal-hunting nomads as they trekked through Macy’s, or whatever people who actually go outside on Black Friday have to endure. Things are mostly quiet here at the Ars Orbiting HQ—the gift shop on the mess deck is still […]
December 2, 2024 | Amazon, black friday, cyber monday, sales, Shopping | No comments
The leaves have turned, the turkey has been eaten, the parades are over, and the football has been watched—the only thing left to do is to try to hide from increasingly uncomfortable family conversations by going out and shopping for things! It’s the holiday tradition that not only makes us feel good, but also (apocryphally) […]
November 29, 2024 | Amazon, black friday, cyber monday, sales, Shopping | No comments
After a couple of years without much happening, smart displays are in the news again. Aside from smart TVs, consumer screens that connect to the Internet have never reached a mainstream audience. However, there seems to be a resurgence to make smart displays more popular. The approaches that some companies are taking are better than […]
November 22, 2024 | Amazon, Apple, Google, Monitors, Smart Home, Tech | No comments
Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI executives Dario and Daniela Amodei in 2021, will continue using Google’s cloud services along with Amazon’s infrastructure. The UK Competition and Markets Authority reviewed Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic earlier this year and ultimately determined it did not have jurisdiction to investigate further, clearing the way for the partnership to continue. […]
November 22, 2024 | AI, Amazon, Anthropic, Biz & IT, ChatGPT, chatgtp, Dario Amodei, large language models, LLMs, machine learning | No comments