The AI-related layoffs at Amazon and some other firms reflect a "hollowing out of middle-skilled workers," Lynn Wu, a professor of operations, information and decisions at the University of Pennsylvania, told ABC News.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Suvendu Mohanty, a 37-year-old machine learning engineer at Amazon. It's been edited for length and clarity. I got my Master's in Computer Science in 2011, and like others, I got tracked into coding as ...

The local impact of Amazon’s latest round of layoffs is coming into focus. Of the 14,000 employees Amazon laid off this week, 2,303 were in its home state of Washington, according to a state filing. In addition to streamlining and removing bureaucracy, Amazon officials say artificial intelligence is driving the layoffs in two key ways.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amazon SageMaker, which got its start five years ago, is among the most widely used machine learning (ML) services in existence.

Amazon has quietly launched the Kindle Learning Academy. This is an online destination designed to help you learn how to use your Kindle, primarily aimed at new users. Amazon Kindle e-reader and Kindle App users can learn more about how to set up ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to ...

Amazon will be shutting down Amazon Academy, an online learning platform it launched in India for high school students last year, the company said Thursday. The retailer says it will wind down the edtech service in the country in a phased manner starting ...

This post was updated Oct. 20 at 4:01 p.m. Bruin Learn, UCLA’s primary learning management system, shut down early Monday morning because of an Amazon Web Services outage.  Canvas – the platform that Bruin Learn was built on – said in a message on the Bruin Learn homepage that it is working to recover the website as soon as possible.