As part of this year's performance review process, known internally as Forte, Amazon is asking corporate employees to submit three to five "accomplishments" that best reflect their work, according to people familiar with the matter and an internal guideline obtained by Business Insider.

For a mega-cap technology stock that investors generally expect to outperform the market, this is quite a letdown.

Amazon is bringing Alexa+ to the web with a new Alexa.com site, expanding its AI assistant beyond devices and positioning it as a family-focused, agent-style chatbot.

Amazon tests Shop Direct, pulling product listings from other retailers without consent, highlighting data scraping issues.

Burzio, who doesn’t sell her products on the retail giant’s site, soon discovered that Amazon had duplicated her product listings and made purchases on behalf of Amazon customers under email addresses that read like gibberish followed by buyforme.amazon. “I didn’t worry about, it to be honest,” she said. “We were getting customers.”

Amazon is pushing Alexa+ beyond the smart speaker, bringing its upgraded AI assistant to the web, a redesigned mobile app, and new hardware initiatives. The moves, timed to CES, reflect the company’s effort to close the gap with consumer AI rivals such as ChatGPT and Gemini.

Complaints from retailers come as ecommerce giant sues start-up for sending AI ‘agents’ to shop without its consent

The “Update Account Information” button in an on-brand shade of yellow leads to a fake sign-in page, which will quietly steal your security credentials and give the attackers behind this new campaign access to your account. Amazon provides user guidance on spotting this kind of scam and securing accounts.