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.
Epoch AI's AI Data Centers database now tracks 86 large AI facilities worldwide, covering an estimated 46% of all deployed AI compute as of June 2026, up from roughly 22% in early 2024. The tracked si…
Meta is promoting the cost-saving and energy-efficiency benefits of its custom in-house AI processors as it scales infrastructure for advanced machine learning models, with industry analysts estimatin…
Amazon launched its next-generation AI voice assistant Alexa+ in India on September 16, 2026, as an opt-in Early Access feature on screen-equipped Echo Show devices with support for English, Hindi, an…
Amazon Web Services said on September 15 that it cannot restore access to resources and data held exclusively in its Bahrain region, six months after drone strikes damaged cloud facilities across Bahr…
US data centers will require 15 billion additional cubic feet of natural gas per day by 2035, according to a BloombergNEF forecast reported by Bloomberg News on September 14 — more than double Bloombe…
AWS engineers have published Pizza Bot, an open-source AI agent management tool that organizes agent tasks and permission requests into email-like threads, announced on AWS' open-source blog last week…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said at the All-In Summit that annual infrastructure planning cycles at hyperscalers including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are "almost always wrong" in the AI era, and …
Cloudflare launched a Disallow AI Training setting on September 15, 2026, that separates search indexing from AI model training for mixed-use crawlers, available to all customers on every plan. Apple,…
Google unveiled the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at its Cloud Next keynote, replacing Vertex AI, which had served as its AI platform since 2023, as part of a full-stack cloud AI strategy spanning …
AI inference has become the dominant focus of the AI industry in 2026, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calling it the "inflection point of inference" at the company's GTC 2026 conference, according to Mo…
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid warehouse and factory robot that the company says can work alongside people without safety fences by using AI and sensors to detect humans and stop or ste…
OpenAI's advertising efforts in ChatGPT are working and address Amazon's biggest problem with chatbots, according to Stratechery's analysis, while Walmart has begun accepting Apple Pay. The Stratecher…
Walmart CEO John Furner is consolidating the retailer's technology teams around a "build once, expand globally" strategy that pushes AI tools across its 5,200 U.S. stores, including ChatGPT and Gemini…
Fast Company's fall issue highlights Walmart CEO John Furner, who took the top job in February after more than 30 years at the company, rapidly deploying AI at scale through its Sparky shopping agent …
The Gilroy City Council voted unanimously on Monday night to impose an immediate moratorium on new data centers, halting acceptance, processing and approval of applications and entitlements for at lea…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an injunction blocking Perplexity's Comet browser agent from shopping on Amazon on behalf of users, ruling that the user — not the AI company — legally "acce…
Google has made Anthropic's Opus 5 model available to engineers company-wide through its internal development platform Antigravity, according to two employees and confirmed by a Google spokesperson. T…
Former FTC chair Lina Khan said in a Sunday X post that existing law already allows enforcers to charge AI companies and their CEOs for releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products, warning th…
Pinterest expanded its partnership with Nvidia, pairing Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs and Dynamo inference framework with Pinterest's proprietary visual embeddings to achieve an 85x improvement in response …
Ron Conway, co-founder of SV Angel, has appointed Jay Carney to lead a new AI policy center, pairing the venture capitalist with the former White House Press Secretary to shape US artificial intellige…