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.
Amazon has made Alexa+, its generative AI assistant, free for all U.S. Prime members starting September 1, 2026. Shoppers who tried Alexa+ were more than 25 percent more likely to sign up for a Prime …
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced a multi-generation collaboration with Amazon to develop customized silicon for AWS's AI infrastructure, including optical connectivity solutions up to 1.6Tbit/s. …
Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon have signed a multi-generation collaboration to deliver custom AI inference silicon at scale for AWS data centers, targeting compute, memory bandwidth, networking, and…
AI coding tools now generate a large share of code, but a survey of 1,100 developers by Sonar found that AI contributed 42 percent of code added to shared codebases, and 96 percent of developers did n…
Verizon has signed a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar fiber supply agreement with Corning, extending through 2032, under which Corning will supply more than 80 million miles of high-density optical fi…
AWS is offering millions of students at 132 universities across 18 countries a free year of Kiro, its AI agent for software engineering, with 1,000 credits per month and no credit card required. The p…
Qualcomm announced a multi-generational product partnership with Amazon, extending their collaboration to AI-driven automotive technology, as the chipmaker targets over $15 billion in data center reve…
OpenAI has hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Amazon's former top public-policy official in New York, as its lead lobbyist for government outreach and p…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro are among 11 elected officials who have shifted their positions on data centers amid public backlash, with Hochul imposing the first state…
The Federal Trade Commission and 22 state attorneys general sued Amazon over allegations that, beginning in 2019, its advertising auction system used a 'soft reserved price' that inflated costs for ad…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined King Charles III and executives from Amazon, Apple, AMD, Salesforce, and Alphabet at Blair House in Washington, D.C. on April 28 to discuss AI development and the UK's t…
OpenAI has hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and former Amazon public-policy official, for a top policy job handling government outreach in Northeastern states, A…
SerpApi released its weekly changelog for Aug 31 - Sep 06, 2026, announcing the restoration of direct URLs for Google APIs after resolving Google's rollout of google.com/goto redirect URLs, and introd…
OpenAI revealed in a blog post on Sunday that its most prolific AI coding agent users among researchers now consume more than $7,000 worth of tokens per day, with the median researcher spending over $…
Zhou Yu, co-founder of Arklex AI and a professor at Columbia University, stated that 95% of AI agents remain in demos and fail to create real value, during a presentation on simulation-driven agent te…
Baidu's smart-device arm Xiaodu will hold a hardware launch on Sept. 8 at 2 p.m. Beijing time, unveiling smart displays, Tiantian companion screens, smart speakers, and cameras powered by the upgraded…
Amazon released Grok 4.6 (Global), a new model from xAI available on Amazon Bedrock under the identifier global.xai.grok-4.6, on August 12, 2026. The model supports text and image inputs with a 500k c…
Black Friday 2026 is November 27 and Cyber Monday is November 30, and for most ecommerce brands, Q4 delivers 30 to 40 percent of annual revenue, with the five days from Thanksgiving carrying a disprop…
Fal made its H3 Max reference-to-video model generally available on September 6, claiming real-time generation with up to four references and speeds up to twice as fast as its preview. The API support…
Hisense showcased an AI-managed home at IFA 2026, linking refrigerators, ovens, wine storage, dishwashers, laundry appliances, air conditioners, and energy controls through its ConnectLife platform, a…