The Algorithm’s Blind Spot A new class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon alleges the company systematically denied basic accommodations to four pregnant warehouse employees, ultimately leading to their unlawful termination. Willamina Barclay, Kristina Green, Jennifer Read More
The Price of Platform Dominance: A Hidden Tax on Merchants Twenty billion dollars. That is the staggering sum the Federal Trade Commission and 22 states allege Amazon illegally extracted from approximately 1.2 million advertising customers over seven Read More
Amazon’s Drone Ambition: Who Pays for the Sky’s New Supply Chain? Five hundred US neighborhoods by the end of 2026. Amazon’s audacious target for its Prime Air drone delivery service isn’t merely Read More
The Price of AI Progress: Erasure of the Physical Amazon, the global bookseller whose origin story is practically synonymous with the written word, is now systematically destroying rare books for the advancement of its artificial Read More
The Industrial Pivot and Its Price Tag The titans of cloud computing and AI, long lauded for their capital efficiency and digital dexterity, are now planting billions into the ground, literally. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Read More
The Grand Pronouncements and Grimy Realities of AI Mark Zuckerberg’s recent 6,500-word manifesto, declaring AI should be “for everyone” and championing Meta’s new open-weight model, Glimmer, presents a grand vision for a democratized Read More
The Convenient Candor of Open-Weight AI Mark Zuckerberg’s latest 6,500-word manifesto, released alongside Meta’s new Glimmer AI model on August 14, 2026, posits a future where artificial intelligence is “for everyone,” democratizing power away from Read More
The Unseen Labor of AI Training For more than two years, Amazon quietly treated Twitch streamers’ creative output not as content, but as raw material. Today’s announcement, allowing users to opt out of having Read More
The AI Energy Paradox: Green Promises vs. Grid Realities The grand pronouncements about a sustainable, AI-driven future have always felt like a flimsy veneer, and now the cracks are showing. Amazon, a company that routinely Read More
The Price of Progress: A Carbon Reckoning Thirty-three million tons of carbon dioxide. That’s the staggering annual output projected for Amazon’s planned natural gas power plant in Pecos County, Texas, built to fuel Read More