Matt Day / Bloomberg::
After technological companies like Amazon and Microsoft made huge bets on AI, the gadget boom that started with the launch of Alexa in 2014 has largely gassed– Amazon and Microsoft fell back on the equipment, to go around the scene of product design in Seattle and beyond. … Amazon is not unusual in this regard.
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