Costco is the anti-Amazon
Costco's revenue has grown over 10% annually for five years by offering a limited selection of 4,000 SKUs, contrasting with Amazon's infinite assortment model. The retailer's constrained choice and su…
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.
Costco's revenue has grown over 10% annually for five years by offering a limited selection of 4,000 SKUs, contrasting with Amazon's infinite assortment model. The retailer's constrained choice and su…
Anthropic announced Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, and revealed plans to develop its own drugs targeting neglected diseases, marking one of the most direct attempts by a major AI comp…
Amazon has discounted the Acer Nitro V 16 gaming laptop to $1,200, matching its best-ever price. The deal offers a $100 saving on a device featuring an RTX 5060 GPU and AMD Ryzen AI 5 processor, makin…
Anthropic resolved a US government dispute over its Fable AI model after expanding safety classifiers to block jailbreak requests like 'fix this code' in over 99% of cases. The government lifted expor…
TwelveLabs raised $100M in Series B funding on July 1, with Amazon as an investor and AWS as its preferred cloud provider. The company offers video understanding APIs that index visual, speech, and te…
Amazon's AI data center expansion drove a record 16% rise in greenhouse gas emissions and a 34% jump in electricity use in 2025, according to its latest environmental report. The company's total emiss…
Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion investment in a new business unit, Microsoft Frontier, to help enterprise customers adopt AI tools and demonstrate return on investment. The unit will employ 6,000 f…
SwitchBot launched a new outdoor security camera with 3K resolution and AI event descriptions, including wildlife recognition down to the species level. The camera costs $80 with optional cloud storag…
Anthropic is in early-stage talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI accelerator chip, The Information reported on July 2, 2026. The move follows OpenAI's custom chip and reflects AI …
Creatify's Pro plan at $99 per month transforms product pages into ad creatives, with URL-to-Video scraping Amazon listings to produce scripted ad variants featuring avatar presenters, captions, and m…
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip, aiming to address chip shortages and reduce reliance on Nvidia. The company has not yet determined the chip's specifications or use …
The Bank for International Settlements is amplifying bubble warnings as tech investors face a volatile summer amid sky-high valuations, with Founders Fund's Trae Stephens saying prices are 'untethered…
OpenAI proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in AI labs, including itself and Anthropic, to create a sovereign wealth fund worth an estimated $600 billion. The plan faces significant hurdles,…
Fable AI has returned after a brief suspension, but the incident has set a precedent for export controls and rapid takedowns of AI models. Google is developing an 'Audio Memory' feature for Pixel phon…
Amazon is selling the 11-inch M4 iPad Air for $559 and the 13-inch model for $749, offering up to $200 off the new MSRP after Apple raised prices by $150 last week. The deal provides savings of $40-$5…
Companies including Atlassian, Adobe, and Amazon are throttling employee AI use and switching to cheaper models to control spiraling costs, with one firm's AI spending tripling to over $15 million mon…
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models due to jailbreak vulnerabilities reported by Amazon, then allowed their swift restoration after fixes. This interv…
A developer's guide reveals that bypassing anti-bot walls for production-ready web scraping requires understanding modern detection systems like browser fingerprints, TLS characteristics, IP reputatio…
Hyperscalers like Meta and Oracle are investing heavily in AI data center infrastructure while acknowledging significant financial risks. Oracle's SEC filing warns of potential cost overruns and delay…
Sam Altman spent a year pitching the White House on a 5% stake in OpenAI, and the offer now includes rival AI developers, signaling a shift where the US government moves from monitoring frontier AI to…