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 is closing Mechanical Turk to new users on July 30, putting the 21-year-old platform into maintenance mode after a 2023 study found that 33–46% of workers were using large language models to co…
A New York Times journalist discovered an unauthorized biography of herself on Amazon, written by an AI and published under a pseudonym, highlighting the growing problem of AI-generated 'slop' books f…
Big Tech earnings season begins July 22 with Google and Intel, as investors scrutinize AI spending and returns, with Microsoft and Meta facing pressure over heavy data center investments while Google …
Astera Labs reported record quarterly revenue of $191.9 million in Q2 2025, a 150% year-over-year increase, driven by demand for its AI connectivity hardware from hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, and…
Dave Treadwell, a 27-year Microsoft veteran who helped build Windows, is now leading AWS's Compute and Machine Learning Services team at a moment when scaling AI compute is one of the most significant…
OpenAI and Anthropic face scrutiny over their mission-driven governance structures, which delegate significant power to 'mission directors' with limited accountability, according to a Wall Street Jour…
OpenAI's plan to launch a humanlike rechargeable smart speaker in 2026 enters a declining market, with IDC data showing smart speaker shipments fell 16.3% in 2023, 11.8% in 2024, and an estimated 9.6%…
Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol and former Google executive, has joined the advisory council of Innovation Labs, a division of Identity Digital, to develop an open identity layer for AI …
Anaconda acquired the open source AI coding agent Kilo Code, which has over 3 million developers and processes nearly 10 trillion tokens per month, and will keep it MIT-licensed with no immediate pric…
Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering by October 2026 after a Series H funding round valued the company at $965 billion, making it th…
Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot AI's Kimi, and Zhipu AI's GLM have released open-weight models under permissive licenses, challenging Anthropic's market dominance after U.S. restri…
Anthropic extended free access to its most advanced model, Fable, for paid subscribers until July 19, a move analysts say is designed to grab users, data and model evaluation results rather than gener…
Meta's new Muse Image AI generator allows manipulation of any public Instagram user's photos, raising concerns about image-based abuse that policies fail to address. Research by Chayn in Pakistan and …
OpenAI is developing its first hardware device, a screenless smart speaker with a camera and sensors that uses ChatGPT-like conversational AI, according to insiders. The portable device will control s…
Amazon is testing software to automate warehouse staffing decisions, but some managers are overriding the system, according to internal documents and Slack conversations reviewed by Business Insider. …
Former President Donald Trump denounced New York Governor Kathy Hochul's one-year moratorium on new hyperscale datacenter construction, calling for the policy to be scrapped immediately. New York beca…
Only 5% of enterprises trust AI agents in production despite 85% piloting them, Amazon AGI lab's Bryan Silverthorn said at VB Transform 2026, urging a shift from benchmarks to reliability metrics like…
Investors are growing cautious about AI-related debt as global borrowing is projected to reach nearly $570 billion by 2026, according to Motley Fool. Major companies including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, …
Former banker Satyajit Das warns that current stock market overvaluation, driven by AI and space ventures like SpaceX, mirrors the dot.com bubble, which caused $5-6 trillion in losses and an 80% Nasda…
AI revenue growth expectations may be overhyped, with global AI revenue estimated at $150 billion in 2022 and projected to reach $300 billion by 2025, but scaling profitably remains a hurdle for hyper…