Amazon’s AI wants to own online shopping data

Amazon already dominates online shopping, but now it’s setting its sights even higher. With a new artificial intelligence-powered project called Starfish, the company aims to become the world’s most complete and trusted source of product information.  The goal? Make every listing on Amazon accurate, detailed and easy to understand, whether the product is sold by…

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The frenzied, gamified chase for Labubus

On Thursday night, I toggled endlessly between a TikTok Live stream and a shopping app in anticipation of 9:30PM. For 30 minutes, I hunted for an available listing; many expletives were uttered. I exhibited bot behavior and got iced out of the app multiple times. I tapped so many times my thumbs got sore. This…

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