The online retail giant said in August that it had hired three founders and about a quarter of the staff of Covariant AI, an Emeryville ... the company into a “zombie,” the whistleblower ...

Beware of zombies. That’s the message from some venture capital executives who predict that AI will drive down the cost and time startup founders need to build businesses—but also increase the ...

Not too long after, they noticed that someone had spun up the zombie site on their old domain. "I was just a station DJ at the time. I quickly discovered the AI site, and initially laughed.