Can't have record low approval ratings if no one is checking the approval ratings...

Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff spoke to Fox yesterday about the Super Bowl ad backlash. He said he was surprised by the reaction, and people with privacy concerns don't understand how the tool works. He also claimed the dog finding feature "would not work for humans." www.foxbusiness.com/technology/r...

Amazon just got approval from the FCC to expand its Starlink competitor to roughly 7,700 satellites. It comes as Amazon seeks an extension from the FCC on a deadline to deploy half of its 3,200+ first gen satellites by July 2026. The agency hasn't ruled on that yet. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/a...

Last October.

On the other hand, no it won't.

EXCLUSIVE: on Jan 22 we rolled up on a raid happening in South Minneapolis. we had no idea who they were taking. turns out it was a *two year old girl* and her dad on the way back from buying fruit. he had no criminal record. this is their story. youtu.be/yaeXlxJOAXU?...

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

ICE observers in the Twin Cities suburbs say they fear being injured or killed, but are dedicated to being on the right side of history. They say working together has brought them community and connection. And they're seeing shifts in attitudes among their neighbors. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Marty Baron rebukes Jeff Bezos: "The owner wrote that he aimed to boost trust in the Post. The effect was something else entirely: Subscribers lost trust in his stewardship...Bezos's sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump have left an especially ugly stain of their own."

While Elon Musk said he’s merging SpaceX with xAI to more effectively build “orbital data centers,” xAI is more in need of SpaceX’s access to money. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/m...

“While President Trump and the White House regularly circulate imagery altered by artificial intelligence, including demeaning and racist deepfakes, it is usually so over the top that the goal seems more about cartoonish mockery than outright deceit.”

To anyone tempted to celebrate Noem's big announcement that ICE will use body cams and that it will be expanded nationwide as funding is available... That's already been official ICE policy for over two years. www.ice.gov/news/release....

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

NEW: I reviewed nearly 1,400 screenings at over 300 movie theaters in the united states, and I am here to report that I successfully found two (2) sold out Melania screenings. Read on at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/we-fou...

Tomorrow in Santa Monica, protesters are organizing an anti-ICE demonstration at Amazon's tech hub. Amazon provides cloud services to ICE—last September, it inked a $25 million contract with the agency. The organizers have a simple message: ICE out.

The NHTSA and Waymo said the "young pedestrian" sustained minor injuries. Waymo voluntarily reported the incident to the US vehicle safety regulator on the same day it occurred. The company is suggesting its systems responded better than an attentive human could have... www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/w...

Incredible story by @agreenberg.bsky.social, both on the scam compound operation and how he navigated a uniquely difficult and dangerous situation for his source. This one should be required reading for journalism ethics classes: www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

In Minneapolis, far-right influencers posing as journalists are casting themselves as victims and labeling ICE-watch groups “terrorists.” Their big new evidence—“infiltrated” Signal chats—isn’t a secret, had no calls for violence and urged people to witness, not interfere. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week. This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD

Amazon's internet-beaming satellites are bright enough to disrupt astronomical research, according to a study (yet to be peer reviewed) published earlier this month. SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile's satellites are also causing issues. www.space.com/space-explor...

On tonight’s White House agenda: Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports. Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.

In response to criticism that Ring cameras are being used to assist ICE, the Amazon-owned firm says it "does not share video" with the agency, unless required by law. It also said a recently announced partnership with surveillance company Flock Safety isn't active yet. futurism.com/future-socie...

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

fast-casual AI slop restaurant that serves slop bowls

Amazon Supercenter potentially coming to a suburb near you 👀 www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/a...

As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (Annie Palmer/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

not too late to add retro gameboy made from attack drone metal to your christmas wishlist!

Amazon is shaking up its AI leadership: Andy Jassy announced today that Rohit Prasad will leave at the end of the year. He'll be replaced by longtime AWS exec Peter DeSantis, who will oversee a newly expanded AGI unit and report directly to Jassy. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/17/a...

Meta is developing a new frontier AI model called Avocado, but performance problems have delayed it to 2026. The company’s shift from open source to proprietary AI is causing internal confusion. Good scoop by @jonathanvanian.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/m...

new: people across Wisconsin are increasingly standing up to AI data centers. at the old Foxconn site, citizens are thankful for Microsoft, but they said no to a new Microsoft data center 20 miles away. worries range from a loss of open land to meager tax payments www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/m...

scoop: An Amazon Prime Air drone snapped an internet cable in Waco, TX last week, prompting the FAA to open a probe into the matter. We obtained video of the incident, which shows the drone shearing a wire line then landing in a customer's yard. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/a...

Late night scoop from @anniepalmer.bsky.social: Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/a...

New: Amazon's mass layoffs last month hit engineers the hardest, according to WARN notices. We analyzed docs in WA, CA, NY and NJ and found that 40% of the job cuts in those states were engineering roles. Product managers & program managers were also heavily impacted. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/a...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Amazon staffers tell @anniepalmer.bsky.social they feel like they’re under an “incredible amount of pressure” and “burdened with more work” than before, following waves of mass layoffs. The potential for more layoffs next year has created further anxiety. cnb.cx/47FNeym

Some great nuggets in here about what’s going on inside Amazon right now, from @anniepalmer.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/a...

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...

ICE and Border Patrol agents, while wearing face masks, randomly stop people on the street and demand they submit to facial-recognition technology for a citizenship check. Via @josephcox.bsky.social www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

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...

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'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, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and a handful of other major technology companies are among the high-profile donors who are helping to finance Trump's $300 million ballroom, via @spencerkimball.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...

Just two days after Toronto denied the Mariners a World Series appearance, Seattle-based Amazon has announced a new robotics system called... Blue Jay www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/a... by @anniepalmer.bsky.social

On the heels of the NYT report yesterday, Amazon is out with a new warehouse robot today called "Blue Jay" that can pick, sort and consolidate packages in a single assembly line-style system. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/a...

“.. 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...

As Benioff softens his stance on sending the National Guard to SF - Musk calls to deploy federal troops to the "drug zombie apocalypse" [disclosure: that I call home]... www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/m...

Migrant laborers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia say the company hasn't followed through on its promise to reimburse them after extensive investigations found workers paid sham recruiting fees to secure contract jobs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink