Amazon Doubles Nvidia GPU Order to 2 Million Chips
Five months after ordering 1 million Nvidia GPUs, AWS has doubled the order to 2 million, even as Amazon's own AI chips hit a $25 billion revenue run rate.
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AirTag Tracks a Used Book to Amazon's Book-Scanning Warehouse
A hidden AirTag led to a Las Vegas Amazon warehouse that scans used books for AI training data, then discards the paper originals.
Amazon’s AI Run Rate Tops $25B
Amazon’s Q2 report showed AWS AI and chip businesses each above a $25 billion annual run rate, with a large Anthropic-related gain lifting profit.
TwelveLabs raises $100 million for video superintelligence
The video-understanding startup will expand research in San Francisco and Seoul, open offices in New York and London, and train on AWS Trainium.
AWS Puts $1 Billion Into Forward Deployed AI Engineers
AWS created a $1 billion Forward Deployed Engineering organization that embeds teams inside customer companies to make AI projects work in production.
Amazon walks away from the Sam Altman film
Amazon MGM dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished OpenAI drama, after Amazon’s larger AI business relationship with OpenAI made the release politically awkward.
Amazon jailbreak report preceded Anthropic's model takedown
Axios traced how a competitor's security report helped trigger a rapid government order to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from broad access.
Amazon Bee hands-on: AI wristband records all your conversations
TechCrunch reporter Lucas Ropek wore Amazon's Bee AI wristband for a week and found it useful at work but unsettling in personal settings.
Amazon folds Rufus into Alexa for Shopping
Amazon is retiring the Rufus shopping assistant brand and moving its history, recommendations and 300 million users into Alexa for Shopping.
Amazon Invests Another $5B; Anthropic Pledges $100B on AWS Over a Decade
Anthropic has committed to spending $100 billion on AWS over the next ten years, while Amazon adds another $5 billion to its investment, bringing the total to $13 billion. The deal includes a commercial milestone clause that could unlock up to $20 billion more.
AWS Launches Four Nova 2 Models at Once
Amazon unveiled the Nova 2 family of four models, alongside Nova Forge for custom enterprise training and Nova Act for browser automation, bundling AI models, training, and automation into a single ecosystem.