Formal methods with Hillel Wayne
Formal methods consultant Hillel Wayne argues that software engineering earns the title of 'real engineering' due to its rigor, while noting that version control is uniquely sophisticated in software …
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.
Formal methods consultant Hillel Wayne argues that software engineering earns the title of 'real engineering' due to its rigor, while noting that version control is uniquely sophisticated in software …
Amazon is halting active development on four flagship in-house AI models — Nova Premier, Nova Omni, Reel, and Canvas — placing them in maintenance-only mode for existing customers, Business Insider re…
The conflict between open-weight and closed large language models is escalating, with Microsoft releasing a policy statement supporting open weights as a net good for US AI leadership, while Trump adm…
A software developer argues that the pressure to keep AI agents constantly coding is a manufactured fear that primarily benefits inference providers, not developers. Citing an NBER working paper from …
Tech companies have cut more than 150,000 jobs in 2026, with many citing AI as the reason, but a new paper argues these layoffs create a trap by reducing the income that buys their products. Oracle el…
Amazon urged Virginia regulators during hearings this month to allow hyperscale data center operators to voluntarily fund transmission infrastructure through contributions in aid of construction (CIAC…
An engineer built a system that lets them start coding tasks on Claude Code by speaking to an Amazon Alexa device. The main challenge was Alexa's eight-second response limit, which forced a design whe…
Microsoft and Meta face investor scrutiny over AI spending this week as combined capital expenditure across Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon is projected to hit roughly $700 billion in 2026 and e…
Amazon is set to report Q2 earnings on Thursday, with Wall Street focused on AWS growth amid heavy AI spending. Analysts project AWS revenue of $40.5 billion, up 31% year over year, as investors weigh…
PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid operator, has proposed curtailing electricity supply to new large power users, including AI data centers, during grid emergencies starting June 2027, as …
Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted the company was caught off guard by demand for the Mac Mini, driven by local AI workloads, and warned of several months to catch up. Three months later, base configurations…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned the US against banning Chinese AI models, calling it 'not an effective solution' for maintaining American dominance in the AI race, and argued that open-source competit…
Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon are set to report earnings over the next two days, with investors demanding tangible returns from massive AI capital spending after punishing Alphabet and Tesla for capex i…
Over 30 CVEs were reported against MCP deployments in the first 60 days of 2026, with Adversa AI finding 38% of 500+ MCP servers had no authentication on critical endpoints and 43% were vulnerable to …
A data-driven dashboard tracking five signals of AI infrastructure build-out and platform economics shows the expansion is still intensifying, with Alphabet's June-quarter cloud revenue up 82% to $24.…
A new study analyzing 14,419 self-published genre fiction ebooks on Amazon found that one in five books now contains substantial AI-written text, and the average human-written book earns less per titl…
SK Hynix reported a record operating profit of 60.5 trillion won for Q2 2024, a more than sixfold increase from 9.2 trillion won a year earlier, driven by AI chip demand, but missed the LSEG SmartEsti…
Andrew Ng, who coined the term 'agentic AI,' has founded LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup backed by Coursera with $100 million for a roughly one-third stake, valuing the pre-product company …
The S&P 500 rose 0.21% to 7,428.78 on Tuesday as gains in Boeing and Coca-Cola offset tumbling chip stocks ahead of quarterly reports from Apple and other tech companies, with investors concerned abou…
Coursera invested $100 million in Andrew Ng's new AI education startup LearnVector, valuing the company at approximately $300 million and taking a one-third stake. Ng, who will serve as CEO, said the …