Most people know that Amazon collects data about your shopping history to serve up personalized product recommendations.
But what some of us didn't realize is that you can check exactly what Amazon knows - or thinks it knows - about you in your settings menu.
Platform, chip and AI decisions set the terms other companies have to build on, so a single announcement here tends to ripple through products, supply chains and regulation.
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