In today’s Two-Minute Tech Briefing: Amazon faces backlash from AI startup Perplexity over alleged restrictions on autonomous AI shopping tools; DRAM memory prices are expected to jump 23% amid soaring AI data center demand; and new research shows India’s tech salaries plunging 40%, signaling a major global offshoring shift.
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Hello and welcome to your 2-Minute Tech Briefing from Computerworld. I'm your host, Arnold Davick, reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Here are the top IT news stories you need to know for Friday, November 14th. Let's dive in!
From Computerworld, a growing legal dispute is sparking fresh debate about how much freedom autonomous AI tools should really have online.
AI startup perplexity says Amazon is using legal threats to block innovation this after the company demanded that its comment browser stop allowing AI agents to shop on Amazon on behalf of users. Perplexity has accused Amazon of prioritizing ad revenue over user convenience.
Amazon disagrees, saying it's simply protecting customers and ensuring quality of service going on to say that an app making purchases on users behalf must do so transparently and with consent.
And from Network World, prices for DRAM, the memory used in servers and PCs, are expected to surge by more than 23% over the next year. That's according to market analyst trend force, which blames the explosion in AI data center construction and aggressive pricing from suppliers.
Data centers now require massive amounts of high performance memory to run large scale AI models. The increase in demand is outpacing global supply. Analysts expect costs to go up across the entire computing industry as the shortage could last well into 2026.
And finally, from CIO, new data from Deel and Carter shows that India's once booming it labor market is cooling fast. The median salary for engineering and data roles has dropped nearly 40% in just one year to around 22,000 US dollars.
Experts say the drop reflects a shift in global offshoring as companies Chase AI and cyber security talent in new regions offering stronger skills and higher stability. That's today's 2-Minute Tech Briefing.
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