relied heavily on teams of human workers—primarily located overseas—to manually process transactions in secret, mimicking what users believed was being done by automation

Example of "AI" hype when it's neither artificial nor intelligent.

misled investors by exploiting the promise and allure of AI technology to build a false narrative about innovation that never existed. This type of deception not only victimizes innocent investors...

Note that the crime is misleading investors, not anyone else, which is very telling. It's only a crime when you rip off other rich people.

Discussed here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1jygobw/ceo_of_ai_shopping_app_faces_40_years_for_using/

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.
We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.
We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes.

So much hype in this one, coming from people who (likely) have very narrow domain knowledge and trying to make hype-y predictions for humanity. Such as a footnote that reduces human brains to equivalents of "compute" as X FLOPS, and comparing "AI" to multiples of human brains as a measure of "superintelligence"...

Amazon.com Inc. equipped some delivery vans in Europe with defibrillators to see if drivers crisscrossing residential areas could speed up aid to heart-attack victims.

So dystopian. Traumatising drivers even more with the added responsibility of responding to heart attacks; a future where Amazon Prime members get priority response from those drivers if they ever get a heart attack, further locking people in; or more public health functions being relegated to Amazon and its ilk...

Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673921