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Amazon Investigates Perplexity AI Over Potential Data-Scraping Violations | PCMag

https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-investigates-perplexity-ai-over-potential-data-scraping-violations

Amazon hires execs from AI startup Adept and licenses its technology

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/28/amazon-hires-execs-from-ai-startup-adept-and-licenses-its-technology.html

An update from Adept

https://www.adept.ai/blog/adept-update

How Amazon’s hiring of Adept AI startup avoids antitrust scrutiny – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/1/24190060/amazon-adept-ai-acquisition-playbook-microsoft-inflection

Amazon hires founders from well-funded enterprise AI startup Adept to boost tech giant’s ‘AGI’ team – GeekWire

https://www.geekwire.com/2024/amazon-hires-founders-from-well-funded-enterprise-ai-startup-adept-to-boost-tech-giants-agi-team

“Amazon is hiring executives from AI startup Adept onto the company’s ‘AGI Autonomy’ team Adept raised $350M in March 2023, which valued the company at $1B – so I’m very curious about terms Another AI deal similar to the Inflection/Microsoft

Amazon is hiring executives from AI startup Adept onto the company’s 'AGI Autonomy' team

Adept raised $350M in March 2023, which valued the company at $1B – so I'm very curious about terms

Another AI deal similar to the Inflection/Microsofthttps://t.co/wqjmOnOiMw
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) July 1, 2024

Amazon, Built by Retail, Invests in Its AI Future – WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-investment-artificial-intelligence-3fc99732

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