GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2021

As Amazon’s sales skyrocketed during the pandemic, its carbon emissions rose — by 19%, according to its 2020 sustainability report , released Wednesday. That’s up from a 15% year-over-year increase in 2019. By this metric, overall carbon intensity decreased 16% since 2019, from about 123 grams per dollar of sales to 103.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

But the Redmond company was blindsided Friday by the OpenAI board’s decision to remove Altman, learning about it shortly before the news was announced, according to a report by Axios , which GeekWire confirmed independently. But, as I understand it, it was a “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company. .”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

James Heath, president and professor at Seattle’s Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), photographed in 2019. The Institute for Systems Biology scientists are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to coordinate the research with patients, collect clinical data and process the vast numbers of data points.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. Pearson joined AWS in 2019 after 28 years at Intel. Former Tune CEO Peter Hamilton.

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Vox

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But a new report says those benefits are increasingly lopsided — in Amazon’s favor. The report , which comes from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), asserts that Amazon takes a larger and larger cut of sellers’ earnings through the various fees it levies on them. By 2019, it was 85 percent.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global manager of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global head of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a head of diversity for Amazon Web Services in 2019. Let me add: Amazon appeared to be taking steps backward instead of forward.”.

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