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.
Capital One appointed Prem Natarajan, former head of Alexa AI at Amazon, as its Chief Scientist to lead AI research and deployment in financial services. The bank aims to solve domain-specific challen…
The generative AI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months, with an annualized revenue run rate exceeding $175 billion, according to a new bottom-up, deduplicated report fro…
RAISE US, a nonprofit led by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, launched with over $500 million in commitments from OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and others to retrain American workers for AI-era j…
UN Women warned that AI systems reproduce historical gender stereotypes, citing a study of 133 AI systems where 44 percent exhibited gender bias. The warning, issued ahead of the UN Global Dialogue on…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and Microsoft are anchor partners in Raise US, a new nonprofit aiming to raise $1 billion to help states prepare workers for AI disruption. Led by former Commerce Secretary …
A Haystack News poll found 55% of over 4,100 Americans are very concerned about an AI bubble, reflecting growing alarm over the $1 trillion invested in AI with little return. The concern coincides wit…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are funding RAISE US, a new nonprofit led by former US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo to retrain American workers for the AI economy. The group has raised ove…
A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launches with over $500 million to retrain American workers for the AI era, partnering with states and major employers like Amazon and Microsoft to prevent catast…
Amazon is heavily promoting its AI assistants, Alexa and Rufus, during Prime Day to transform the shopping experience, but early evidence shows shoppers are using them more as fact-checkers than compa…
ELEHEAR is offering its AI-powered Beyond Pro hearing aids at 15% off during Amazon Prime Day, priced at $509. The devices use deep neural networks to analyze environmental sounds 500 times per second…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Stanford graduates to stop obsessing over their first jobs, sharing a lesson he learned on a road trip to Las Vegas where skipping a class taught him that few moments are…
Fal has added ByteDance's Seed Audio 1.0 to its hosted model gallery and API, enabling developers to generate audio from text, reference audio, or images through a single endpoint. The move positions …
A bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Gabe Evans and Rep. Kathy Castor would require utilities to treat AI data centers as a separate customer class, forcing tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Mic…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was replaced by co-founder Tom Brown in White House meetings after officials found Amodei difficult to engage with, according to a report. The change comes as the Trump admi…
The European Union held talks with the White House to regain access to Anthropic's advanced AI models after a US export-control order cut off European access in mid-June. The order, citing a jailbreak…
Europe's largest tech conference VivaTech in Paris drew 180,000 attendees amid a heatwave, with Jeff Bezos predicting AI will create labor shortages and Yann LeCun warning of a potential AI bubble. Th…
Corsair's Vengeance i7500 gaming PC, featuring an Intel Core i5-14600K and Nvidia RTX 5060, is discounted 13% to $1,399.99 for Amazon Prime Day. The prebuilt system offers strong 1080p and 1440p gamin…
OpenAI has started displaying ads to paid subscribers on its £6.99/month plan, including ads for Financial Times, Shein, and Amazon Prime Day. A user reported seeing these ads while asking about a mob…
Amazon's Prime Day deal offers the Sony Bravia XR8B 77-inch OLED TV at $1,798, a 27% discount from its regular $2,499.99 price, marking its lowest price yet. The deal saves shoppers $701.99 on the 202…
Wall Street opened higher on Wednesday after Micron Technology's strong quarterly earnings report boosted other semiconductor stocks. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.9%, the S&P 500 gained 0.8%, and the D…