Amazon suffers programming crashes related to AI code tools

New York .- Amazon suffered several “high severity” technical incidents this week related to programming and AI-assisted code tools, which required an “in-depth analysis” of these problems at the meeting of its engineers this Tuesday, according to several specialized media. The e-commerce giant experienced failures in its online store for various users for approximately six hours last Thursday, in addition to other incidents of this type throughout the last week. Website and app buyers were unable to complete their orders, access their account information, or view product prices.

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These problems were related to “a software code implementation,” the company said in a statement, which caused the crashes of some of Amazon’s e-commerce systems and required an “in-depth analysis” by the engineering team at its meeting this Tuesday, according to economic media. Programming and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted code tool incidents are framed at a time when Amazon is positioned as the company that announced the most investment in AI in its sector, with an amount of about 200 billion dollars. Amazon’s AI spending goes hand in hand with massive job cuts. The company founded by Jeff Bezos laid off about 16,000 workers this January, followed by another cut of about 14,000 jobs last October. We recommend reading.
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