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Amazon's Shopping Bot Falls Short of Prime Performance

Amazon's Shopping Bot Falls Short of Prime Performance

Bloomberg07-07-2025
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr looks at the performance of Amazon's shopping bot, Rufus.
Internet blackouts: Russia is regularly switching off mobile internet connections in large swaths of the country for security reasons. There were a record 654 mobile data shutdowns in regions across the country in June, hitting banking apps, delivery services and taxi networks.
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