Amazon shutters its AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February (The Information)

<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260723/p57#a260723p57" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-shuts-ai-agent-research-lab-agi-layoffs">Amazon shutters its AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Amazon this week closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco-based research and product team that was developing software to improve the usefulness of AI agents, according to an Amazon spokesperson.</p>