Tag: Amazon

Alexa gets a photo frame that answers back

Amazon is stuffing a small display and a speaker into the wall-mounted slot Google left open.

Three hyperscalers burned cash while paying for AI

Meta, Amazon and Alphabet all posted negative free cash flow in the same quarter.

AWS bets one config line is enough to peel PyTorch off CUDA

TorchNeuron moves PyTorch workloads onto Trainium with a single settings change, and Amazon is aiming it squarely at…

Amazon commits $1B more to towns hosting its data centers

AWS will add more than $1B over five years for schools, energy upgrades and local grants in US…

Meta’s shopping agent finds the Amazon door closed

Amazon has cut Meta's Muse agent off from its storefront, turning a quiet integration into a public fight…

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk marketplace closes for good this month

The crowdsourcing pioneer that Amazon called Artificial Artificial Intelligence shuts down on September 30.

Amazon adds 2 million Nvidia GPUs to its AI data centers

Amazon will deploy 2 million more Nvidia GPUs across AWS starting in 2027 as the pair expand their…

Prime Air’s sixfold expansion leans on autonomous flight

The drone delivery fleet will grow sixfold by year end, leaning on autonomous flight software and a detect-and-avoid…

Amazon’s Fire TV drops the monthly fee for Alexa+

Amazon drops the $19.99 monthly price for Alexa+ on Fire TV and upgrades everyone automatically.

Amazon slices open rare books to harvest AI training data

Amazon is buying rare books in bulk, cutting off their spines, and scanning them into AI training data,…

Twitch gives streamers control over Amazon AI training data

Twitch added a setting that keeps streamer content out of Amazon's generative AI training.

Amazon builds guardrails after AI jobs blow project budgets

Amazon engineers are capping AI project spend after a $1.8M Claude job shipped nothing.