The red alert is said to have been raised immediately after a malfunction of the ecommerce site that occurred in early March and lasted for about six hours, during which customers were unable to complete transactions or use certain specific functions such as checking the price of products or accessing their profile on the site. According to the Financial Times , this is just the latest episode in a long series of malfunctions caused precisely by errors introduced by Q, the artificial intelligence assistant for computer code development that was chosen by the tech giant. A tool that, together with Kira – the assistant employed instead by Amazon Web Services, the subsidiary that deals with cloud services -, seems to have been adopted by all Amazon developers.
