Jessica Karl, Columnist

Amazon Has Its AI Cake and Eats It Too

Good news: There’s a $38 billion deal with OpenAI. Bad news: There are also 14,000 layoffs.

Wanted: Bots, not humans.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

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For corporate America, AI is sort of like a little sister. She has way too much energy and somehow looks cooler wearing your clothes. But you can always throw her under the bus when things go wrong.