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From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Stephanie Hughes.

It's Friday. It's almost spring. Let's celebrate with a roundup of news on the Marketplace TechBites week in review.

This week, the social network moltbook finds a new home. Plus, YouTube dominates the media landscape.

But first, a look at AI-related site outages at Amazon. This week, the Financial Times reported that Amazon

engineers were meeting to discuss recent outages of the website, including those related to its

use of AI. There weren't specifics on exactly which outages were being discussed, but this

does come after Amazon's online store was unavailable for thousands of customers for a few hours

last week, according to user

reports. Amazon told us that only one incident discussed was related to AI, and none of them

involved AI written code. I asked Jewel Burke Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital,

what this tells us about the unintended consequences of jumping right in to generative

AI use. It definitely brings light to the perspective that some of these AI tools and coding tools that

many of the teams are using perhaps need stronger guard rails and more controls.

And maybe the current ways in which that they are checking code bases and making sure that

things don't propagate in incorrect ways aren't sufficient for some of these coding tools.

So certainly it requires a deeper look, and it sounds like internally at Amazon, they are taking

the measures to ensure that these

coding tools that they're using across the board are safe and doing what's right for customers.

Yeah. I mean, I think working with AI is kind of, it's like working with a new tool,

maybe like working with a new coworker. Is there just going to be a learning curve?

I think so. And I think across the board, you know, Amazon is experiencing this. Startups are experiencing

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