Andy Jassy

The on-screen message draws the line: previously downloaded books still open, but the device can no longer pull new purchases from the Kindle store. So he built a workaround, buy on Amazon, torrent a DRM-free copy, sideload over USB, and admits the purchase step now delivers no benefit whatsoever.

Not everyone sees malice. One reader whose own older Kindle still sideloads says the block only hits the store on end-of-life devices, whose ancient built-in browser was never going to last.

Amazon researchers, per the Wall Street Journal, strung prompts together until Fable 5 produced material useful for cyberattacks, then carried that to Washington rather than to Anthropic's security inbox.

The detail the thread keeps circling: Amazon is one of Anthropic's largest shareholders and its cloud partner. A security favor and a competitive shove are hard to tell apart when one company does both.