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.
Google Play Books will launch a generative AI Book Insights feature on July 6, automatically enabled for most English-language books, allowing readers to request recaps or ask questions about the text…
Odyssey, an AI lab founded by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, with Amazon participating and committing to AWS…
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok warns that falling token prices are driving companies to spend even more on AI, citing Jevons paradox. Despite a 90% drop in token costs since 2023, aggregate AI sp…
Smartbird, formerly Allbirds, appointed former Amazon executive Nadia Carlsten as CEO to lead its pivot to managed AI infrastructure, sold its footwear brand, and expanded its convertible financing to…
Jeff Bezos said at VivaTech that AI will create a labor shortage rather than eliminate jobs, arguing that human demand for work is endless and AI will lower barriers. His optimistic view contrasts wit…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged G7 leaders to maintain unified AI regulation at a summit lunch with President Trump, days after the Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's 'Fable'…
Amazon AI chief Peter DeSantis admitted the company's AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but expressed hope of catching up within a year. Amazon is investing $33 billion in Anthropic while bui…
Amazon Senior Vice President Peter DeSantis acknowledged the company's AI models have not been at the frontier of the largest workloads but expressed hope that Amazon will be in the conversation about…
Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD invested $310 million in AI startup Odyssey ML, which develops 3D world models, valuing the company at $1.45 billion. The funding round also included CIA-linked fund IQT and Go…
Illinois could become the first U.S. state to make driving while wearing AI smart glasses a felony, after the General Assembly approved a bill updating distracted-driving law with no hands-free or sto…
Odyssey, an AI lab developing world models for simulating physical environments, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation. Amazon led the round alongside AMD Ventures, GV, …
Amazon is restructuring its AI division under new leader Peter DeSantis and investing up to $25 billion in Anthropic to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic in frontier AI models. The company is also in…
Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital with participation from Amazon,…
Amazon's custom Trainium and Inferentia chips are gaining traction as organizations seek cost-effective alternatives to Nvidia GPUs for AI workloads. AWS reports cost reductions of 80-90% for inferenc…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos argued that artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it replaces, citing productivity gains leading to labor scarcity rather than mass unemployment. He made the com…
The White House blocked external access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after Amazon alerted officials to a jailbreak exploit. The administration issued an export-control designation barrin…
Anthropic has been unable to lift a U.S. government ban on its AI program Fable, which was blocked last week over national security concerns. The company argues the AI helps find software vulnerabilit…
The White House imposed export control restrictions on Anthropic's advanced Fable and Mythos AI models on Friday evening, forcing the company to shut off access and sparking conflicting narratives abo…
Amazon AI executive Peter DeSantis said fault-tolerant quantum computing remains decades away, contradicting Google's five-year forecast. Amazon's Ocelot chip reduces error-correction costs but does n…
Amazon's AWS division predicts small-scale quantum computers will become commercially useful within five to seven years, targeting 2030-2032. The company unveiled its Ocelot chip on February 27, 2025,…