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Wildfire smoke shuts schools in Amazon's biggest city #Amazon

Wildfire smoke shuts schools in Amazon's biggest city
The largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, Manaus, closed public schools on Friday as smoke from hundreds of wildfires blanketed the metropolis amid an intensifying El Niño event.

A deep dive on Amazon's robotics efforts, resulting in 1M active warehouse robots; Amazon is still the world's 2nd-largest corporate employer with 1.5M workers (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ins

Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.

Muse erstellt anscheinend Berichte über die Freunde und Bekannten seiner Nutzer
Metas KI-Agent Muse legt Berichten zufolge detaillierte Profile über Freunde und Bekannte seiner Nutzer an. Hinzu kommen weitere datenkritische Praktiken.

Muse erstellt anscheinend Berichte über die Freunde und Bekannten seiner Nutzer
Metas KI-Agent Muse legt Berichten zufolge detaillierte Profile über Freunde und Bekannte seiner Nutzer an. Hinzu kommen weitere datenkritische Praktiken.

Amazon will invest in a gas-burning power plant in Texas, which will power a new data center. That one plant will produce more carbon dioxide than countries such as Switzerland, Ireland or Bulgaria.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligen…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

#Health: Amazon is recalling "Amazon Extra Strength Pain Relief #acetaminophen 500mg caplets" as they may be unclean/unsafe.
#recall

FDA Recalls and Warnings: Amazon Acetaminophen, Millions of Eye Drops and More Compounded Glutathione - MedShadow Foundation
Welcome to the FDA Recalls and Warnings Update, a series dedicated to keeping you informed about the latest medication recalls, manufacturing violations, and quality concerns affecting your prescriptions. In this installment, we’re highlighting drug recalls for Amazon Acetaminophen Extra Strength Caplets, Benzoyl Peroxide Wash, Clindamycin Phosphate Foam, Compounded Glutathione, Estradiol Gel, FOCUS PI Eye Drops,

Amazon fires were almost nonexistent before humans arrived #Amazon

Amazon fires were almost nonexistent before humans arrived
The Amazon rainforest rarely burned before humans arrived. A 10,000-year record reveals how human-set fires transformed the forest over time.

Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: gorgeous screen, Android apps, and nice design and build quality, but Amazon's bloatware is pervasive and Alexa is subpar (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1010780/alexa-tablet-12-pro-review

The Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is almost the Android tablet we needed
Amazon’s latest tablet has a lovely screen, is well made, and runs full Android. But it’s too full of Amazon to really recommend.

Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube launch the Streaming Access and Choice Alliance, led by trade group TechNet, to advocate for "technology-neutral policies" (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/14/netflix-amazon-youtube-streaming-coalition

Exclusive: Netflix, Amazon, YouTube launch new streaming coalition
The alliance is led by TechNet, a trade group that represents Big Tech companies.

Marina Silva on Flšvio Bolsonaro: He will try to finish his father’s ‘perverse project’ to destroy the Amazon https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/10/marina-silva-flavio-bolsonaro-the-amazon-brazil-president-far-right…