Amazon is gearing up to relaunch its Alexa voice-powered digital assistant as an artificial intelligence “agent” that can complete practical tasks, as the tech group races to resolve the challenges that have dogged the system’s AI overhaul.

Amazon is working to relaunch its Alexa voice-powered digital assistant as an AI “agent” that can complete practical tasks, Madhumita Murgia

I fully agree a “human in the loop” on all AI decision-making processes is a must, ensuring responsible strategies and upholding moral and ethical judgment.

The pursuit of 100 per cent reliability in a system where AI makes all decisions autonomously is a folly. Public benchmarks show that state of the art large language models predict a single step with less than 90 per cent accuracy, leaving little hope for predicting a dozen in a row without error.

The new tranche of money from Google into Anthropic adds to a total investment of $8bn from Amazon, the ecommerce group’s largest-ever venture investment, announced over the past 18 months. Amazon is also working to embed the Claude models into the next-generation version of its Alexa speaker.

Gianpiero Petriglieri, associate professor of organisational behaviour at Insead, argues that one characteristic that will endure is the physical office serving as a space for spontaneous interactions, building a sense of community and creativity that virtual environments struggle to replicate.

Bezos’s rush to cosy up to the Trumps has been matched by corporate executives across America, as tech billionaires, financiers and the leaders of some of the US’s best-known consumer groups hurry to adjust to a more conservative zeitgeist in the wake of Trump’s election victory and the Republican sweep of both houses of Congress.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), the global e-commerce and cloud computing giant with a market capitalization of $2.48 trillion, continues to demonstrate its market leadership and innovative prowess as it navigates a complex business landscape.

Wall Street analysts weigh in on Amazon, Nvidia, Carnival, Seagate Technology Holdings, Netflix, and Affirm Holdings.

André Corrêa do Lago, the experienced Brazilian diplomat and climate negotiator appointed this week, told the Financial Times that the exit of the US could also allow nations such as China, India and Brazil to take a bigger role in the world’s most important climate talks.

Amazon stock handily topped the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite over the last year, but even more gains could be in store thanks to the ongoing AI revolution.

Meesho has also filed an application with the NCLT for a reverse merger of its Indian subsidiary, Fashnear Technologies, with its US-based parent entity, Meesho Inc.