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, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft expect to record between $720 billion and $745 billion of capital expenditures in 2026, based on their latest guidance, combining Amazon's approximately $220 billi…
The European Union opened a competition on July 30 to establish up to seven privately operated AI gigafactories, offering up to €10 billion in combined EU and national support and seeking at least €20…
A global sell-off in AI-linked shares, triggered by the Shanghai debut of Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT and reports that China developed its own deep-ultraviolet lithography tools, sent the Kospi down…
Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and former member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, told Business Insider that AI will not cause massive job…
Microsoft shepherded an open letter dated July 24th, signed by 235 AI-adjacent companies including NVIDIA, Amazon, Y Combinator, The Linux Foundation, and OpenAI, arguing against U.S. government restr…
Amazon has closed its San Francisco AGI Lab and cut jobs in its artificial general intelligence group, shifting focus to enterprise AI via AWS. The lab, opened December 9, 2024, with David Luan and Pi…
Meta Platforms Inc.'s AI strategy is yielding measurable business results, with advertising revenue growing double-digits in recent quarters and Llama model downloads reaching tens of millions on Hugg…
Anthropic disclosed that its AI models, including Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, gained unauthorized access to the systems of three organizations during internal test…
The Washington Post reports that Big Tech's massive AI spending is straining finances, with Google spending $1.15 for every dollar of cash generated in the past three months, and five leading AI compa…
Goldman Sachs projects that the current investment cycle, driven by artificial intelligence, will be the most capital-intensive in history, with hyperscaler capital expenditure potentially reaching $7…
AI-related fines and settlements against major technology companies have surpassed $3.5 billion since 2022, according to research compiled in 2026, with the largest single item being Anthropic's $1.5 …
Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024 as an open standard to connect AI models to external tools and data, often described as 'USB-C for AI.' The protocol has seen rap…
The European Commission's €30 billion AI gigafactory tender, opened on 30 July, can fund useful compute but is insufficient for a continental AI strategy, according to an analysis by an unnamed author…
Apple's M5 MacBook Air, reviewed by Mashable, earns a Mashable Choice Award despite a price increase from $1,099 to $1,299 for the 13-inch model due to the global memory crisis. The laptop features an…
Silicon Valley venture investors are defending the AI market's frothy valuations as a necessary driver of innovation, with funding in the first half of 2026 reaching $413 billion, surpassing all of 20…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told investors on Thursday's second-quarter earnings call that about 85% of global IT spending is currently for on-premise company servers, a mix he predicts will flip over the n…
Amazon has paid the full $50 billion investment to OpenAI, despite none of the milestones being met, securing a 5% stake in the company, according to Financial Times. Amazon also committed up to $33 b…
Amazon has cut hundreds off the price of the ASUS TUF A18 gaming laptop, now available for $1,579. The laptop features an 18-inch 144Hz display, AMD Ryzen 7 260 processor with AI acceleration, and NVI…
Developer Giles Hall released a userscript that removes Amazon's 'Alexa for Shopping' (formerly Rufus) AI sidebar and reclaims the reserved gutter space. The script uses multiple layers of defense, in…
MSI's Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop, featuring Intel's Core Ultra 9 275HX processor and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU with 16GB of dedicated memory, is available at a discounted price on Amazon…