Amazon insists that the service is a simple object-recognition tool and will only be used for legal purposes. ... The bias seems to come from the data used to train the algorithm, ...

Internet giant Amazon recently ran into a problem that eloquently illustrates the pitfalls of big data: It tried to automate hiring with a machine learning algorithm, but upon testing it realized ...

Amazon was granted 1,963 patent applications in 2017, which was an 18 percent increase from the year before when they were awarded 1,672 patents, according to data from the USPTO analyzed by IFI ...

The company’s algorithms told it where to offer its Prime Free Same-Day Delivery service, but an algorithm that uses data tainted by racism will be racist in its outcomes.

Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well. The FTC’s public antitrust complaint redacted its ...

According to Amazon’s own data: ... Amazon’s A9 algorithm. Amazon is indexing and using your content for text match relevancy against a keyword query that customers are putting in the search bar.

Amazon.com Inc has declined to describe its product-search system to an Australian competition regulator that has heard complaints of large marketplace platforms giving preference to in-house wares.