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Three Amazon executives in charge of developing new technologies for checking out of physical stores – including Just Walk Out, Dash Carts, and Amazon One – are leaving or have left the division, technewss has learned. In addition, a former high-ranking advertising executive at Amazon, Colleen

More than 100,000 people have been laid off in the technology industry alone this year, and — either by circumstance or choice — at least some of them are not heading back into exclusively full-time work. LinkedIn launched a freelancer marketplace in 2021 to capture some of that activity. Now,

Accountants typically dread month-end and quarter-end closings. That's because finalizing financial records for a specific period is generally a manual, error-prone, and time-consuming endeavor.  In 2020, Parker Gilbert (pictured above, middle) was so fed up with the tedium of managing financ

Atlassian first showed off Rovo six months ago. Rovo is what the company calls its “AI teammate” that combines smarter search and chat-based AI tools with agents that can help users automate some of their workflows in tools like Jira and Confluence. At its Team ’24 Europe event in

Atlassian recently announced its plans to combine its Jira Software tools for developers and Jira Work Management tool for business teams into a single product. Jira was originally for developers and the teams that directly support them, but over time, it also became popular with business teams. Th

Dave Clark has had a roller coaster of a time these past two years. After stepping down in June 2022 as CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer division — a role he held for over two decades — Clark relocated to Dallas to join supply chain logistics company Flexport. With a board mandate to p

Distributional, an AI testing platform founded by Intel’s former GM of AI software, Scott Clark, has closed a $19 million Series A funding round led by Two Sigma Ventures. Clark says that Distributional was inspired by the AI testing problems he ran into while applying AI at Intel, and

The technical documentation for chips in the semiconductor industry is often thousands of pages long. Keeping those documents updated with every revision is a massive lift, as is generating the manuals and tutorials for engineers who then implement those chips in their own products. And to make mat

Chipmaker Nvidia notched $30 billion in revenue last fiscal quarter, driven in large part by the AI industry’s insatiable demand for GPUs. GPUs are essential for training and running AI models; they contain thousands of cores that work in parallel to quickly perform the linear algebra equatio

Lightdash, a business intelligence (BI) platform and open source alternative to Google’s Looker, is lifting the lid on a new product that allows companies to train “AI analysts” specific to individual teams’ use-cases, enabling anyone in a company to query aggregate business

Ultrasound is perhaps best known as the technology that enables noninvasive body scans and underwater communication and can help us park our cars. A young startup called Sonair out of Norway wants to employ it for something else: 3D computer vision used in autonomous hardware applications.  Sonai

It was quite a surprise when Adam Selipsky stepped down as the CEO of Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit. What was maybe just as much of a surprise was that Matt Garman succeeded him. Garman joined Amazon as an intern in 2005 and became a full-time employee in 2006, working on the early AWS pr

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage in recent years, upending traditional online search via the likes of ChatGPT while improving customer support, content generation, translation, and more. Now one fledgling startup is using LLMs to build AI assistants capable spec

AI tends to make things up. That’s unappealing to just about anyone who uses it on a regular basis, but especially to businesses, for which fallacious results could hurt the bottom line. Half of workers responding to a recent survey from Salesforce say they worry answers from their company