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Amazon’s AI agents spark backlash from retailers after listing their products without their knowledge

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Amazon.com Inc. has irked dozens of online retailers after using experimental artificial intelligence tools to scrape their websites and list their products on its sprawling online marketplace without their knowledge or consent. The tools in question incl…

#ai #ecommerce #dataprivacy #techpolicy #amazon #aiethics #genai #business #algorithm #regulation

Amazon’s AI Shopping Tool Faces Retailer Backlash Over Website Scraping

1 month / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Amazon's AI shopping tool lists products without seller permission

1 month / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Amazon’s AI agents spark backlash from retailers after listing their products without their knowledge

2 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Amazon accused of listing products from independent shops without permission

2 months / ft

Amazon AI Tool Blindsides Merchants by Offering Products Without Their Knowledge

2 months / bloomberg / Matt Day

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Nvidia says H200 demand in China is 'very high' as export licenses near completion — a month after the green light, Huang has high hopes for China buy-in despite political sensitivity

tomshardware - Nvidia says demand in China for its H200 data center GPU is “very high,” as it works through the final stages of U.S. export licensing, according to comments from Jensen Huang at CES 2026.

#ai #semiconductors #techpolicy #china #chips #nvidia #gpu #datacenter #huang

Beijing tells companies to pause H200 purchases — China govt deliberating terms for letting local tech companies buy US chips while still growing homegrown semiconductors

1 month / tomshardware

Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs

1 month / theregister / Dan Robinson

NVIDIA CEO Doesn’t Rule Out ‘Rubin’ for China, Says Newer Chips Will Become Available Once U.S. Export Restrictions Ease

1 month / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Nvidia CEO Says Chinese Demand for Its AI Chips Is ‘Quite High’

2 months / wsj / Robbie Whelan

Nvidia says H200 demand in China is 'very high' as export licenses near completion — a month after the green light, Huang has high hopes for China buy-in despite political sensitivity

2 months / tomshardware

Nvidia stepping up H200 production ahead of sales to China, Huang says

2 months / ft

Huang says Nvidia seeing ‘very high’ Chinese customer demand for H200 AI chips

2 months / cnbc

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Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

eWEEK Staff / eweek - Elon Musk's initial reaction sparked additional controversy when he responded with laughing emojis to AI-generated bikini images.The post Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children appeared first on eWEEK.


Global Regulatory Crackdown

X faces possible sanctions as Indonesia tightens AI rules

1 month / e27 / Sainul

Elon Musk faces new fight in Australia over 'abhorrent' deepfakes on Grok

2 months / capitalbrief / Finn McHugh

Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok Is Facing Potential Bans - Here's Why

2 months / bgr

EU Calls Grok's Child Images 'Illegal' as Global Crackdown Intensifies

2 months / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy

2 months / techpolicy

Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI deepfakes

2 months / bbc


Sexual Explicit Content Controversies

AI chatbot Grok under fire for sexual images

1 month / semafor / Tom Chivers

Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

1 month / bloomberg / Cecilia D'Anastasio

Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream

2 months / wired / Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner

People are using Grok to create lewd images of women and young girls

2 months / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Grok is undressing children — can the law stop it?

2 months / theverge / Hayden Field

Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

2 months / eweek / eWEEK Staff


All Other Stories

New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the

2 months / bsky / @mattburgess1.bsky.social / mattburgess1.bsky.social

The scale of the AI-fueled, nonconsensual sexualization of women in photos on X is staggering. The internet has suffered tools like this for years, but never at this scale, with this reach, and this out in the open. from @regret.bsky.social and @mattburge

2 months / bsky / @brbarrett.bsky.social / brbarrett.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Poli

2 months / bsky / @justinhendrix.bsky.social / justinhendrix.bsky.social

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