On This Day in 1995: The First Amazon Purchase Was a Book About AI
A bit of historical symmetry worth noting on a day when AI economics are being rewritten.
As @JonErlichman noted, the first item ever purchased on Amazon — on April 3, 1995 — was a book about artificial intelligence. Thirty-one years later, AI companies are reshaping the economics of software distribution, and Amazon's AWS is one of the primary compute providers making it possible. Some coincidences age well.
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