Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology company whose AWS cloud platform provides AI infrastructure (SageMaker, Bedrock) and hosts third-party LLMs. Amazon also develops Alexa and the Titan model family.
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Google, OpenAI and Over 100 Companies Call for More Action on AI-Driven Cyberattacks
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, and over 100 other companies and organizations published a joint letter on Thursday calling for a 'global surge in cyber defense' against AI-enabl…
Google, Microsoft and OpenAI urge stronger cyber defenses against AI threats
More than 100 tech and finance companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Anthropic, signed a joint open letter on August 27, 2026, warning that there is a limited amount of time to…
Ask HN: AI agent acts. Your logs say so. But you wrote the logs
A Hacker News user, Yahyaaa, asked how developers deploying AI agents in production handle auditability and what would make them trust an external witness protocol, citing the Amazon vs. Perplexity ca…
Major tech companies call for defensive surge to defeat AI-driven hacks
OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and more than 100 other companies including Broadcom, Capital One, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, General Motors, IBM, Mastercard, Oracle, Robinhood, Shopify,…
Tech industry develops data center counteroffensive as $130B in projects face local resistance
At least 75 data center projects representing roughly $130 billion in investment have been blocked or delayed due to local community opposition, prompting Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta to shift …
US data centers now consume nearly 40% of the world’s data-center electricity, Energy Institute finds
Data centers worldwide consumed 788 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2025, up 19.7% from 658.2 TWh in 2024, according to the Energy Institute's 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, which tracked d…
NVIDIA NVHBM Moves the Memory Controller Into the HBM Stack, With Amazon’s Trainium4 First in Line
NVIDIA has detailed its NVLink Fusion interconnect and NVHBM custom base-die memory architecture, which moves the memory controller into the HBM stack and delivers up to 30 percent higher memory bandw…
Linux Foundation Submits OpenMDW AI License to Open Source Initiative
The Linux Foundation has submitted its Open Model, Data, and Weights license (OpenMDW-1.1) to the Open Source Initiative for review and potential approval as an AI open-source license, aiming to addre…
Germany Admits It Doesn't Have Enough AI Compute to Keep Up
Germany's digital minister Karsten Wildberger said the country lacks sufficient AI computing power, calling the situation 'five minutes to midnight' after OpenAI disclosed its models breached Hugging …
ChatGPT can log into your web accounts without you now - but should you let it?
OpenAI launched a new skill on Tuesday that lets ChatGPT Work automatically sign users into their website accounts using cookies stored in its built-in cloud browser, available only for ChatGPT Pro an…
Big Tech faces Big Resistance
Meta's $17 billion settlement with the FTC over teen safety on Instagram and Facebook signals a broader erosion of Big Tech's operational freedom, with the AI industry now facing rising local oppositi…
Seen an ad with an AI influencer or actor? It may be against the law.
New York's Synthetic Performers law, which took effect in June, has drawn its first four complaints from advertisers allegedly using AI-generated models or actors without disclosure, all currently und…
NorthCinder Adds Buyer Approval to MCP Shopping Workflows
NorthCinder, an open-source MCP server, introduces buyer approval to AI shopping workflows, separating product comparison from checkout. The project requires a signed, single-use approval for each pur…
GitHub Agent Plugins 1.0: Build Once, Ship to All
GitHub's Agent Plugins 1.0 reached general availability on August 12, introducing an open standard for packaging AI agent extensions that bundle agent skills and MCP servers into a single format compa…
How AI Optimizes Product Descriptions: Beyond Basic Prompts
A developer built an agentic workflow using LangGraph and CrewAI to generate SEO-optimized product descriptions for e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Shopify. The system uses specialized AI agents …
Amazon is shutting down "artificial AI" service Mechanical Turk
Amazon is shutting down its Mechanical Turk service, which Jeff Bezos once called 'artificial AI,' according to a CNBC report dated August 25, 2026. The service, which crowdsources human tasks for AI …
Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), Amazon's crowdsourcing marketplace for microtasks and machine learning data annotation, will shut down on September 30, according to an announcement on its website. The…
Moonshot AI Wants Microsoft, Amazon and Google to Pay It a Cut of Kimi K3
Moonshot AI is in talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet's Google to let Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud host its 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, seeking up to 30% of revenue from…
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, quietly ending the human-powered platform
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk (MTurk) on September 30, 2026, after 21 years, ending the crowdsourced digital labor platform that helped build the human-data pipeline for AI. The company stop…