GeekWire Podcast: We assess the AWS outage, take an AI quiz, and try Amazon’s Halo View

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Is the world relying too much on Amazon Web Services? We take stock of the fallout from the big AWS outage (which was the subject of a detailed explanation from the company Friday afternoon, after we recorded).

Plus, what’s your AI IQ? We test our own artificial intelligence literacy in a new online quiz from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle. Read more in this story by our colleague Alan Boyle.

And finally, we try on Amazon’s new Halo View, and explain what’s different in this new health tracker.

Listen below, and subscribe to GeekWire in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

Produced and edited by Curt Milton. Theme music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell.

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