A mid the wave of hype over artificial intelligence, a growing chorus of fear has sprung around software engineering, where executives are threatening to automate swaths of work. But an ongoing overhaul at America's second-largest private employer has a more immediate warning - already on warehouse floors.

Amazon is seeking to ramp up its robot army at the cost of human jobs.

“Nobody else has the same incentive as Amazon to find the way to automate,” said Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu in his remarks to a leading U.S. newspaper.

The 15-hour disruption to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-based computing service, on Monday shook internet users around the world, disrupting everything from travel to financial transactions — and under...

Canadians awoke to find several of their favourite services experiencing technical difficulties after Amazon reported a major outage in its cloud computing service.