Fox News AI Newsletter: Amazon cuts thousands of roles

An Amazon transportation idiosyncratic sorts packages retired for transportation successful the fiscal territory of New York City, Oct. 11, 2022.  (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)

Welcome to Fox News’ Artificial Intelligence newsletter with the latest AI exertion advancements.

IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:

- Amazon to chopped 16,000 roles arsenic it looks to put successful AI, region ‘bureaucracy’
- Uber unveils a caller robotaxi with nary operator down the wheel 
- Ex-Google technologist recovered blameworthy of stealing AI secrets for Chinese companies

MASSIVE CUTS: Amazon said Wednesday it volition chopped astir 16,000 roles crossed the institution arsenic portion of an organizational overhaul aimed astatine "reducing layers, expanding ownership, and removing bureaucracy," portion continuing to put heavy successful areas specified arsenic artificial intelligence.

YOUR NEW RIDE: Uber is getting person to offering rides with nary 1 down the wheel. The institution precocious unveiled a caller robotaxi and confirmed that autonomous investigating is already underway connected nationalist roads successful the San Francisco Bay Area. While the conveyance archetypal appeared earlier this period astatine the Consumer Electronics Show 2026, the bigger communicative present is what is happening aft the show.

Lucid, Nuro and Uber unveil a robotaxi during Nvidia Live astatine CES 2026 up of the yearly Consumer Electronics Show successful Las Vegas, Jan. 5, 2026.  (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

TECH THEFT: A national assemblage recovered a erstwhile Google technologist blameworthy of stealing artificial quality (AI) commercialized secrets and spying for Chinese tech companies, ending a high-profile Silicon Valley trial.

FIDO'S BIG BROTHER: Tuya Smart conscionable introduced Aura, its archetypal AI-powered companion robot made for pets. Aura is designed specifically for household cats and dogs, with AI trained to admit their behaviors, movements and vocal cues. The thought down Aura is simple. Pets request much than nutrient bowls and cameras. They request attention, enactment and reassurance.

GOING BIG: What happens erstwhile artificial quality (AI) moves from coating portraits to designing homes? That question is nary longer theoretical. At the Utzon Center successful Denmark, Ai-Da Robot, the world's archetypal ultra-realistic robot artist, has made past arsenic the archetypal humanoid robot to plan a building.

A antheral faces the realistic artist" robot "Ai-Da" utilizing artificial quality astatine a basal during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit successful Geneva connected May 30, 2024. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

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