Amazon Web Services joined the agentic AI frenzy in a big way this week, revealing at a New York City event Wednesday a host of services and tools dubbed Agentcore that let technologists build and deploy so-called AI agents capable of automating internal tasks while potentially overhauling the way consumers interact with online businesses too.

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at Amazon and making big changes. His latest move injects AI evaluation into how employees apply for promotions.

Employees working in Amazon’s smart-home businesses like Ring, Blink, and Key will now have to demonstrate how they are using artificial intelligence (AI) at work if they want to move up the ladder.

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, the group that spurred the company's climate pledge in 2019, ripped this year's sustainability report and accused Amazon of hiding coal and gas energy sources.

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, said he expects the company to reduce its workforce over the next few years as it rolls out more generative AI and agents.

It saw a 6 percent rise in planet-heating pollution last year, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. As it expands data centers for AI, Amazon is moving further away from a goal it set in 2019 to reach net zero carbon emissions.

After two years of modest declines, Amazon reported today that its carbon footprint grew by 6% last year. The global cloud and online retail giant hit 68.25 million metric tons of carbon emissions — for comparison, that’s about two-thirds of the annual amount emitted by entire state of Washington.

One startling result from the study is this: 50 to 55% of "early-career workloads are now AI-augmented." In other words, it's not that AI will impact the workforce. It's that it is already having an outsized impact right now. But what does this mean, at least for entry-level tech jobs? That's next.

Political leaders do not have any offical biographies and this is creating a boom in sales with AI generated work. The content often blends factual data with speculative claims, such as fabricated quotes from politicians or exaggerated policy proposals.

Amazon CEO warns AI will reduce corporate workforce as the company embraces generative AI technology, urging employees to adapt in the transformation.

Developers can use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore services to build foundational infrastructure for deploying and operating AI agents at scale.