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A panicking Amazon delivery driver was ordered to keep working through tornado warnings or she'd lose her job, text messages show, highlighting a lack of training in the online retailer's disjointed delivery network where it's not clear who is the boss. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

OpenAI's new open weight models will be the first OAI ones available on AWS bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by @spencersoper

NEW: Anthropic is releasing an update to its Opus model, Opus 4.1, ahead of GPT-5's expected release. Says that it has improved coding + agentic capabilities, particularly with handling large codebases. More here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Clocking out from bird watch. Train and bird still.heading southbound.

A bird boarded the southbound sounder train at Seattle's King Street station, but it's OK because the conductors have a plan

Almost to puyallup and bird still on train. Bird might make it to tacoma. Lower cost of living than Seattle and traffic not quite as bad.

Ambassador doesn't know if bird paid fare. He hopped on in Tukwila and doesn't seem to even know we have a stowaway on board

We just left Tukwila. Notnsure if bird is still on board or not. Fare ambassadors are coming around and folks are asking if the bird paid its fare.

Train is approaching Tukwila. Folks are moving closer to the windows to see if anything happens with the bird.

Folks on the Tukwila platform looking to board train might catch a bird in the face when the doors open.

Some Amazon employees have uncovered snippets of internal code that look like instructions for an AI model to evaluate and pull keywords from disability and leave documentation:

Amazon is giving shoppers refunds for products they returned years ago after an internal review exposes unresolved returns. The company is facing a consumer lawsuit on this issue. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

anyone else rockin to smooth jazz waiting for Amazon earnings call?

Buried in all the tariff news were these new details on the end of an exemption that helped Temu and Shein take off in the US: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by @spencersoper

Amazon to resume employee theft screening at US warehouses and will ask workers to register their personal cell phones so security personnel knows they aren't stolen. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Together, @spencersoper, @ClaireYChe & I take you to the Chinese factory producing random items for Temu, the HQs of its parent PDD, and homes of American buyers. bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

BREAKING: Amazon warehouse workers in North Carolina vote against union bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New: Amazon employees at a North Carolina warehouse will vote February 10 to 15 on unionizing with the independent group CAUSE @amazoncause bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/ @spencersoper “We’re making history, and we’re on the right side of history”

News: Amazon employees were supposed to have Microsoft’s cloud Office suite by now. But the rollout has been delayed for a year following a high-profile hack, giving time for Microsoft to address Amazon’s concerns about the security of the software.