Bytes: Week in Review – Amazon and AI, YouTube tops the media market and Meta buys an …

This week, the AI chatbot social network Moltbook finds a new home. Plus, YouTube dominates the media landscape. But first, a look at AI-related site outages at Amazon. The Financial Times reported that Amazon engineers were meeting to discuss recent outages of Amazon’s website, including those connected to its use of AI. There weren’t specifics on exactly which outages were being discussed but this does come after Amazon’s online store was unavailable for thousands of customers for a few hours last week, according to user reports. Amazon told us that only one incident discussed was related to AI and none of them involved AI written code. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Jewel Burks Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, about all these headlines for this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” More on everything we talked about Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages – from The Financial Times Correcting the Financial Times report about recent Amazon.com service incidents and AI – from Amazon YouTube is now the world’s largest media company, and it is only getting bigger – from Morningstar Exclusive: Meta hires duo behind Moltbook – from Axios
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