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Palantir's comms chief said she's concerned about its political shift toward the Trump admin, including embracing parts of Trump's agenda and inking a contract with ICE to build "ImmigrantOS"

"I think it's going to be challenging," she said.
via @jennelias.bsky.social: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/p...
Palantir communications chief calls the company's political shift 'concerning'
Palantir Head of Global Communications Lisa Gordon's comments come as CEO Alex Karp aligns himself further with the Trump administration.
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Amazon confirmed this morning that it's laying off 14k corporate staffers.

The massive cuts are being blamed on AI and bureaucracy bloat. Amazon is also unwinding a pandemic era hiring spree which caused its corporate and warehouse staff to balloon

More details here:
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/a...
Amazon laying off about 14,000 corporate workers as it invests more in AI
The company said it's cutting roles in order to help make the company leaner and less bureaucratic, while it looks to invest in generative AI.
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New: Amazon is preparing to announce sweeping layoffs beginning Tuesday that are expected to represent the largest cuts to its corporate workforce in its history.

Amazon has continued to shave its headcount after laying off 27,000+ staffers between 2022 and 2023. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/a...
Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon's corporate workforce in the company's history, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Amazon's cloud is under pressure (it's not just Monday's outage).
From newly serious competitors, from a homegrown bureaucracy, and from an artificial intelligence wave threatening to upend a market that Amazon Web Services invented.

On AWS in the AI era:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Amazon’s AWS Shows Signs of Weakness as Competitors Charge Ahead
The company that basically invented the cloud business is widely perceived as trailing its rivals in artificial intelligence.
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“.. internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.”

@nytimes.com $AMZN
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
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A book excerpt details the "enshittification" of Amazon, and how its "flywheel" technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants (Cory Doctorow/The Guardian)

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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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🚨NEW🚨 Amazon has been developing drone surveillance tech for American cops, from gun detection to repurposing Twitch's streaming code.

It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance
Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI
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Am curious what might be considered "high quality" AI slop: "Mr. Sahai, the OpenAI product leader, said a significant amount of content, across the quality spectrum, would be produced with Sora, but that the highest quality work would rise to the top."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/t...
OpenAI’s New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)
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the torch has officially passed from millenials to zoomers. enjoy your turn in the sun as the whipping boy and freak show of american media, anthropologized as if being visited by aliens www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/s...
New: I sat down with Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff, who returned to the Amazon-owned unit in April. He explained his decision to restore Ring's original mission to "make neighborhoods safer."

Of the scrutiny over tech and policing, he said he "backs the blue"
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/r...
Ring founder 'backs the blue,' says AI is helping Amazon-owned doorbell unit fight crime
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to the company he founded in April to lead the business, which is part of Amazon's devices division.
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Docs reveal how deeply embedded Palantir’s tools were in
ICE's investigative unit. For example, they used a Palantir app to plan a gang takedown & when a target was not at the expected location they used the same app to find the person at their family's address. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir
For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how...
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Not doing a renovation because I don’t want the terrorists to win
OUR BATHROOM MIRRORS ARE VITAL TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY