Bloomberg reports the Luxembourg office will fire 370 employees, around 8.5 percent of the 4,370 staff. Amazon announced 14,000 global layoffs in October.
The tiny European tax haven only has a population of 680,000, and these are its biggest layoffs in two decades — but still leave Amazon the fifth largest employer in the country.
Ubisoft has acquired March of Giants, a free-to-play MOBA that was previously developed by Amazon’s Montreal studio. Amazon’s VP of games positively mentioned March of Giants in an October memo announcing the company’s pivot away from MMOs, but Amazon is moving on from the game anyway.
Free, ad-supported streamer Tubi is now compatible with Matter Casting, making it the first app other than Prime Video to adopt the standard, which is currently only available on Amazon Fire TV devices.
Will you use it? Maybe not, but at least it’s an option, unlike Netflix.
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MCP has already taken the industry by storm, and now Anthropic is giving it away.
The feature uses AI to give you more detailed motion notifications, like describing people the camera or doorbell detects, much like the AI video descriptions Ring cameras got earlier this year.
Video descriptions are launching as an early access beta feature and require a paid Blink subscription.
It was bad enough that Amazon thought people would enjoy English / Spanish versions of Banana Fish and No Game, No Life Zero that were shoddily dubbed using generative AI. But Anime News Network reports that the streamer didn’t even bother to ask the original studios behind those series if that kind of dubbing was ok.
