Amazon’s AI agents spark backlash from retailers after listing their products without their knowledge

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Amazon.com Inc. has irked dozens of online retailers after using experimental artificial intelligence tools to scrape their websites and list their products on its sprawling online marketplace without their knowledge or consent. The tools in question incl…

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Amazon AI Tool Blindsides Merchants by Offering Products Without Their Knowledge

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Lenovo and Motorola reveal Qira, an AI assistant that wants to do it all

digitaltrends - Qira can handle tasks such as smart suggestions (Next Move), text help (Write For Me), live conversation with screen and camera sharing, and on-device image creation.The post Lenovo and Motorola reveal Qira, an AI assistant that wants to do it all appeare…

#ai #iot #hardware #mobiletech #edge #voice #genai #assistant #gadgets #lenovo

Lenovo and Motorola introduce Qira cross-device AI assistant

1 month / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Lenovo unveils AI agent to bridge PCs, phones and wearables at CES

1 month / techxplore

Lenovo is building an AI assistant that ‘can act on your behalf’

2 months / theverge / Alex Heath

Lenovo and Motorola reveal Qira, an AI assistant that wants to do it all

2 months / digitaltrends

Motorola and Lenovo's New Qira AI Assistant Will Live Across All Their Devices

2 months / cnet / Abrar Al-Heeti

Qira AI assistant coming to Lenovo, Motorola devices this year

2 months / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

Lenovo Debuts Qira AI Platform and Concept Devices in CES Launch

2 months / bloomberg / Dana Wollman

Lenovo and Motorola are releasing their own on-device AI assistant

2 months / engadget / Igor Bonifacic

Snowflake gets frosty with Google Gemini

O'Ryan Johnson / theregister - Munge that corporate data using the LLM of your choice The data platform Snowflake is putting Google's Gemini to work inside its Cortex AI, aiming to give customers access to a foundational model within the boundaries of their data environment across supp…

#ai #startups #vc #robotics #automation #selfdriving #business #acquisitions #technology #automotive

Mobileye to Buy Israeli Startup Mentee Robotics for $900M

1 month / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Mobileye acquires Mentee Robotics for $900 million to enter humanoid market

1 month / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

The $900M question: Why Mobileye bought Shashua’s own humanoid startup Mentee

2 months / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

Snowflake gets frosty with Google Gemini

2 months / theregister / O'Ryan Johnson

Mobileye to acquire AI humanoid robotics startup Mentee Robotics in $900M deal

2 months / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

Mobileye acquires humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics for $900M

2 months / techcrunch / Kirsten Korosec

Mobileye to Buy Humanoid Robot Maker Mentee for $900 Million

2 months / bloomberg / Marissa Newman

Nvidia says H200 demand in China is 'very high' as export licenses near completion — a month after the green light, Huang has high hopes for China buy-in despite political sensitivity

tomshardware - Nvidia says demand in China for its H200 data center GPU is “very high,” as it works through the final stages of U.S. export licensing, according to comments from Jensen Huang at CES 2026.

#ai #semiconductors #techpolicy #china #chips #nvidia #gpu #datacenter #huang

Beijing tells companies to pause H200 purchases — China govt deliberating terms for letting local tech companies buy US chips while still growing homegrown semiconductors

1 month / tomshardware

Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs

1 month / theregister / Dan Robinson

NVIDIA CEO Doesn’t Rule Out ‘Rubin’ for China, Says Newer Chips Will Become Available Once U.S. Export Restrictions Ease

1 month / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Nvidia CEO Says Chinese Demand for Its AI Chips Is ‘Quite High’

2 months / wsj / Robbie Whelan

Nvidia says H200 demand in China is 'very high' as export licenses near completion — a month after the green light, Huang has high hopes for China buy-in despite political sensitivity

2 months / tomshardware

Nvidia stepping up H200 production ahead of sales to China, Huang says

2 months / ft

Huang says Nvidia seeing ‘very high’ Chinese customer demand for H200 AI chips

2 months / cnbc

xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding

Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - Nvidia is among the many investors, but xAI has not disclosed if these investments come in the form of equity or debt.

#ai #startups #nvidia #genai #business #finance #technology #xai #elonmusk

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Funding Announcements (11)
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Expansion & Competition

xAI nears $230B valuation in $20B Nvidia-led raise to challenge OpenAI, Anthropic

2 months / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

xAI Raises $20 Billion to Accelerate AI Product Development and Infrastructure Buildout

2 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Elon Musk is taking on ChatGPT — and xAI now has $20 billion more to do it

2 months / x / @MarketWatch

xAI raises $20 billion to expand Grok AI models and enterprise tools

2 months / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

Funding Announcements

xAI Raises $20B in Series E Funding

1 month / finsmes / FinSMEs

Elon Musk's xAI closes 20 billion dollar funding round

1 month / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

xAI raises $20 billion in Series E funding

1 month / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

xAI's massive new $20B raise

1 month / therundown / Zach Mink

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20B in New Funding

1 month / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $20B funding round backed by Nvidia and Cisco

2 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion

2 months / nytimes / Kate Conger

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion

2 months / nytimes / Kate Conger

xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding

2 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Elon Musk's xAI raises $20 billion from investors including Nvidia, Cisco, Fidelity

2 months / cnbc

Musk’s XAI Closed $20 Billion Funding Round With Nvidia Backing

2 months / bloomberg / Anne VanderMey

Regulatory Concerns

Elon Musks xAI raises $20 billion as Grok is investigated for deepfakes

1 month / mashable

Musk's xAI Raises $20 Billion With Backing From Nvidia and Cisco

2 months / decrypt / Vismaya V

Musk’s xAI raises $20bn in funding round that doubles valuation

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company that creates deepfake CSAM raises $20 billion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/t...

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company that creates deepfake CSAM raises $20 billion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/t...

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Nvidia is among the many investors, but xAI has not disclosed if these investments come in the form of equity or debt.

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As Grok becomes a child porn machine, Elon Musk has raised another $20 billion to fund its growth, with Nvidia and Cisco chipping in. techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/x...

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Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

eWEEK Staff / eweek - Elon Musk's initial reaction sparked additional controversy when he responded with laughing emojis to AI-generated bikini images.The post Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #governance #law #censorship #contentmoderation #grokai #digitalprivacy

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Global Regulatory Crackdown

X faces possible sanctions as Indonesia tightens AI rules

1 month / e27 / Sainul

Elon Musk faces new fight in Australia over 'abhorrent' deepfakes on Grok

2 months / capitalbrief / Finn McHugh

Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok Is Facing Potential Bans - Here's Why

2 months / bgr

EU Calls Grok's Child Images 'Illegal' as Global Crackdown Intensifies

2 months / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy

2 months / techpolicy

Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI deepfakes

2 months / bbc

Sexual Explicit Content Controversies

AI chatbot Grok under fire for sexual images

1 month / semafor / Tom Chivers

Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

1 month / bloomberg / Cecilia D'Anastasio

Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream

2 months / wired / Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner

People are using Grok to create lewd images of women and young girls

2 months / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Grok is undressing children — can the law stop it?

2 months / theverge / Hayden Field

Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

2 months / eweek / eWEEK Staff

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New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the

2 months / bsky / @mattburgess1.bsky.social / mattburgess1.bsky.social

The scale of the AI-fueled, nonconsensual sexualization of women in photos on X is staggering. The internet has suffered tools like this for years, but never at this scale, with this reach, and this out in the open. from @regret.bsky.social and @mattburge

2 months / bsky / @brbarrett.bsky.social / brbarrett.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Poli

2 months / bsky / @justinhendrix.bsky.social / justinhendrix.bsky.social

Amazon Brings Alexa+ to the Web With a ChatGPT-Style Interface

David Curry / eweek - Amazon has launched Alexa+ on the web at Alexa.com, giving its assistant a ChatGPT-style interface as it expands into shopping, Ring, and Prime Video.The post Amazon Brings Alexa+ to the Web With a ChatGPT-Style Interface appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #voice #amazon #browsers #genai #chatgpt #assistant #alexa

Amazon is putting Alexa+ on Samsung TVs, cars, and even your finger

2 months / digitaltrends

Alexa+ is Coming to Samsung TVs, BMW Cars, and More

2 months / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Amazon Brings Alexa+ to the Web With a ChatGPT-Style Interface

2 months / eweek / David Curry

Amazon is rolling out Alexa+ on the web, but it isn’t available in Canada quite yet

2 months / mobilesyrup / Matthew Mountjoy

CES 2026: Amazon launches Alexa+ on web with new Alexa.com website to compete with ChatGPT and Gemini - MSN

2 months / msn

Amazon Launches Alexa Plus For The Web

2 months / bgr

Amazon Takes Alexa To The Web With Launch Of Alexa.com At CES 2026 - Dataconomy

2 months / dataconomy

Alexa+ moves beyond smart speakers and into direct competition online - absolutegeeks.com

2 months / absolutegeeks

Amazon brings Alexa+ AI Assistant to the web - thekeyword.co

2 months / thekeyword

Two new uGreen NASync storage systems have on-device AI

appleinsider - Two Intel-based NAS systems, the NASync iDX6011 and iDX6011 Pro, were unveiled by Ugreen at CES 2026, bringing local AI features and faster networking to the company's NAS lineup.Ugreen iDX6011 Pro NASUgreen's new models expand the NASync lineup with high…

#ai #cloud #hardware #networking #edge #storage #business #technology #gadgets #smarthome

Why is every The Verge atricel paywalled theverge.com/gadgets/852453/ugreen-ai-nas-idx6011-pro-photo-search

2 months / bsky / @danielmorrisey.com / danielmorrisey.com

Two new uGreen NASync storage systems have on-device AI

2 months / appleinsider

Ugreen is now selling an AI NAS with more RAM than my desktop

2 months / theverge / Sean Hollister

UGREEN Shows GPU-Accelerated, AI-Powered NAS at CES 2026

2 months / techpowerup

Boston Dynamics unveils production Atlas designed for warehouses and factory floors

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Boston Dynamics is turning its humanoid robot Atlas into a commercial product. The first fleet ships to Hyundai in 2026, where the 1.9-meter-tall robot will handle heavy lifting in warehouses and factories.The article Boston Dynamics unveils production At…

#ai #robotics #automation #ml #google #alphabet #deeptech #supplychain #manufacturing #technology

Atlas humanoid robot looks more ready than ever for the workplace

2 months / digitaltrends

Optimus Schmoptimus - Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot is already in mass production

2 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Nvidia Collects. Google Crawls Back.

2 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Boston Dynamics unveils production Atlas designed for warehouses and factory floors

2 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics models will power Boston Dynamics' Atlas for industrial tasks

2 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Atlas Robot's Public Debut, Samsung's Phone-Tablet Hybrid and 'The Most Luxurious Robo-Taxi' | Tech Today video

2 months / cnet / Owen Poole

Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind partner to make Atlas smarter

2 months / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Hyundai and Boston Dynamics unveil humanoid robot Atlas at CES

2 months / techxplore

Hyundai and Boston Dynamics Unveil Humanoid Robot Atlas At CES

2 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Accenture Plans to Buy UK Palantir Rival Faculty in Consultancy’s AI Push

Mark Bergen / bloomberg - Accenture Plc agreed to buy Faculty, a British artificial intelligence startup that’s worked closely with the government, as part of the consultancy’s effort to recast itself as a leader in the technology.

#ai #startups #ml #government #business #uk #europe #acquisitions #technology

Accenture Plans to Acquire Faculty to Expand AI Capabilities

2 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Accenture buys UK start-up Faculty in $1bn deal as consultants rush to adapt to AI

2 months / ft

Accenture plans to acquire UK AI firm Faculty

2 months / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

UK AI business Faculty acquired by Accenture

2 months / uktech / Kirstie Pickering

Accenture Plans to Buy UK Palantir Rival Faculty in Consultancy’s AI Push

2 months / bloomberg / Mark Bergen

Accenture Expands AI Capabilities With Faculty Acquisition

2 months / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Accenture to acquire Faculty AI for undisclosed sum

2 months / sifted

UK AI firm Faculty to be acquired by consulting giant Accenture

2 months / tech / John Reynolds

Nvidia introduces DLSS 4.5 and Multi Frame Generation 6X at CES 2026 — updated models can generate higher-quality upscaled frames and more of them, dynamically

tomshardware - Nvidia might not be introducing new gaming GPUs at CES 2026, but version 4.5 of its DLSS upscaler and an upcoming MFG 6x mode promises better image quality and smoother performance.