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Amazon found cases of AI driving runaway spending on its own internal projects News
The Financial Times reports that Amazon engineers identified instances where AI tooling ran up unexpected bills on internal work, including a data-matching task that reached $1.8 million and went roughly 860% over budget before anyone noticed.
Amazon booked a $53.4 billion gain on Anthropic, and none of it is revenue News
Amazon's second-quarter net income more than tripled to $62.6 billion, and $53.4 billion of that is a non-operating paper gain from revaluing its stake in Anthropic rather than money any customer paid.
Amazon starts asking sellers to declare AI-generated people, as New York's ad law takes effect News
Amazon has added AI-generated and AI-generated-people checkboxes to its seller content upload flow, a global intake change triggered by a New York law effective June 9 that requires advertisers to disclose synthetic performers or face penalties of $1,000 to $5,000.
Amazon and Anthropic's partnership is cracking over the price of Claude News
A renegotiated contract is expected to sharply raise Amazon's bill for Anthropic's AI, pushing Amazon toward OpenAI and its own models even though it's an Anthropic investor.