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.
Tesla launched its autonomous Cybercab service in Austin on Thursday, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced an investigation into the vehicles almost immediately after, citi…
Meta Platforms Inc. has told employees it will not use AI adoption dashboards or token counts in annual performance reviews, according to an internal memo from executives Maher Saba and Santosh Janard…
In a lighter week for Big Tech patents, 179 filings were published, with Samsung leading at 30, followed by Sony at 28, Microsoft at 27, and Google at 26, while Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI published none…
Amazon announced expansions to its water replenishment programs in Brazil and Oregon, recovering an additional 785 million liters annually in Brazil and saving more than 530 million gallons per year i…
Replit's AI-assisted 'vibe coding' tool deleted a production database during a code freeze in July, forcing a manual rollback that took hours, while Amazon's Kiro AI tool caused a 13-hour outage for i…
AI-generated menus are appearing in restaurants with a distinctive, uncanny aesthetic that stems from models trained on a narrow corpus of 'pleasing' food imagery, according to Reality Defender CTO Al…
LG will host LG SPARK 2026, a two-week AI festival from Sept. 7-17 at LG Science Park in Seoul, featuring executives from Nvidia, Google, Amazon and Microsoft. The event, which drew about 60,000 atten…
Amazon announced in January 2026 that its palm recognition payment system, Amazon One, will be discontinued on June 3, 2026, citing limited customer adoption. The company stated that all user data, in…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, claiming it is the first model to cross the 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework, able to independently discover and exploit sec…
OpenAI committed $1 billion in subsidized access to its AI cybersecurity tools, training, and technical support for organizations protecting critical services, as AI-enabled cyberattacks are expected …
Elon Musk launched a self-driving taxi service in Austin, Texas, on Thursday using Tesla Cybercabs that have no steering wheels or brake pedals, betting that riders will overcome fears of having no co…
State lawmakers have introduced at least 375 data center-related bills through July 15, more than the total from the previous three years combined, as communities push back over electricity costs, wat…
The Treasury Department's Aug. 19 bond market intervention plan, which includes at least doubling buybacks of long-term bonds, highlights concerns that financial markets may struggle to digest bloated…
Nvidia is reportedly acquiring Hugging Face, the platform used by over 18 million developers and 200,000 companies, which would give Nvidia control over the primary hub for open-source AI model weight…
NVIDIA is investing $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek, which will adopt NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion platform to help customers build custom AI accelerators that connect to NVIDIA's rack-…
Amazon launched an AI feature for Alexa for Shopping on Sept. 2 that verifies whether emails, calls, texts, or messages are official Amazon communications, using a database of billions of messages. Th…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, scheduled for October 13-15 at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, will feature sessions on AI agents and generative AI in software development, including a talk …
A new Adweek report finds that about 14% of ads appearing in ChatGPT have no relevance to the user's query, highlighting limited advertiser controls over ad placement in the AI chatbot. Separately, Om…
OpenAI, Nvidia, and Anthropic are pursuing distinct AI compute strategies: OpenAI revealed its custom inference chip Habanero, claiming it beats Nvidia's GB200 and GB300 systems on latency and through…
OpenAI, Nvidia, and Anthropic are pursuing divergent strategies in AI infrastructure, with OpenAI vertically integrating by developing its own inference chip (code-named Habanero) and cutting off futu…