Elon Musk warns Amazon on AI coding outages; internal review reveals "high blast radius" incidents

• Elon Musk warned Amazon to "Proceed with caution" following reports of outages potentially linked to AI-assisted coding tools.
• Amazon initiated an internal "deep dive" into a "trend of incidents" with "high blast radius," citing "Gen-AI assisted changes."
• Internal notes highlighted "novel GenAI usage" for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.
• Amazon restricted AI-generated code deployment, requiring senior approval, after an AWS AI tool deleted an environment, causing a 13-hour disruption.
• A separate Amazon website and app outage, affecting checkout and pricing, was resolved and attributed to a "software code deployment."