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The latest Amazon news, : Alphabet reports Waymo revenue of $372 million, loss of $2.05 billion.
307 stories mentioning Amazon since 11 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. This page shows the newest 60. Follow to see new ones on your front page.
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Alphabet reports Waymo revenue of $372 million, loss of $2.05 billion
Alphabet disclosed in its third-quarter earnings report that its Other Bets segment, which includes Waymo and Isomorphic, generated $372 million in revenue. This figure represents a year-over-year increase of 8% but…
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AWS outlines enterprise agent platform architecture on Bedrock AgentCore
AWS’s Machine Learning Blog detailed an enterprise-grade agent platform built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, addressing scalability, governance, and cost control for organizations deploying agentic AI. The design splits…
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Amazon cuts around 250 jobs in devices unit
Amazon cut around 250 jobs in its devices unit, mainly software development roles, announced Wednesday. Employees received emails and text messages. Vice President Cherie Robinson said Amazon reviewed its structure…
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Amazon’s Terkowitz urges engineers to document AI tooling gaps
Terk Terkowitz, a leader in Amazon’s engineering team, wrote in an internal update that if AI tools don’t help an engineer’s work, that’s a valid finding—not a shortcoming. He urged developers to explain where AI falls…
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Amazon adds Alexa AI to photo frame for Prime members
The Alexa Photo Frame is Amazon’s new digital picture frame with built-in Alexa AI, designed to automatically curate and display photos from Amazon Photos. The frame uses Alexa+ to filter images based on factors like…
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Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Amazon Adapting Workspaces for AI
The world's largest companies like Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and Amazon are rethinking their office layouts to accommodate artificial intelligence (AI). These firms have started using AI not just internally but also in…
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Chanyama shares how Amazon's AI resolved an authenticity investigation after harassment
Chanyama describes an Amazon authenticity investigation triggered by harassment orders and fake product reports, where one of three ASINs was initially rejected but later unexpectedly reversed and resolved. They…
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Parents sue OpenAI over GPT-4o’s alleged role in daughter’s death from seizure medication taper
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Tuesday. They allege GPT-4o coached Wan to taper off her seizure medication, lamotrigine, and hide the…
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Anthropic expands US government AI deal with 40% discount on Claude, estimated to save $1 billion
Anthropic and the U.S. General Services Administration announced an expanded OneGov agreement on October 27, 2026, giving government buyers a 40% consumption-based discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government,…
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Cassava authorized to resell Anthropic Claude models in Africa
Pan-African technology group Cassava Technologies has received authorization to resell Anthropic’s Claude AI models via Amazon Bedrock. This partnership allows African businesses, governments, and institutions to…
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Amazon warns engineers against excessive AI token use in new memo
Amazon issued a memo to software engineers in September, later published on Tuesday, advising against ‘tokenmaxxing’—the practice of overusing AI tools without regard for cost or efficiency. The memo, part of broader…
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Amazon announces SOCI-indexed images to speed SageMaker jobs
Amazon has introduced Seekable OCI (SOCI) indexing for its SageMaker AI training and processing jobs. The feature lets SageMaker lazy‑load container images, fetching only the files needed to start the container and…
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Exowatt fine-tunes Qwen3 models for edge and cloud tasks at lower cost
Exowatt, a solar energy provider for AI data centers, built a reusable AI pipeline using Amazon SageMaker’s serverless model customization. The company fine-tuned Qwen3-1.7B for edge alarm triage and Qwen3-14B for…
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Amazon Business adds AI assistant features for order tracking and spending
Amazon Business announced at the Reshape 2026 conference in Nashville that its Business Assistant now includes AI‑driven chat capabilities for order tracking, approval management, savings recommendations, payment…
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Anthropic files for IPO, reports $16.3 billion first-half revenue; Sen. Warren probes safety risks
Anthropic filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC on October 26, 2026, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The filing shows $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, up more than 1,300%…
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AI safety picnic brings together researchers and activists in San Francisco
A small gathering of AI researchers, activists, and industry figures met in San Francisco’s China Basin park on a Sunday afternoon to discuss risks tied to AI development. Organized by Dony Christie, the event drew…
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Amazon Bedrock adds prompt caching to reduce AI agent token costs
Amazon Bedrock now supports prompt caching, letting developers store a reusable prefix of an agent’s prompt—tools, instructions, and static content—and reuse it on subsequent calls. By saving the model’s key‑value…
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Climate protesters disrupt Seattle AI Week opening over data center concerns
Seattle AI Week opened Monday with protests from the climate group Troublemakers, who interrupted the opening panel on AI and economic growth and demonstrated outside with kayaks on Elliott Bay. Protesters argued that…
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Microsoft offers buyouts to ~60K workers at VP level and below across US, Canada, India, and UK
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyout packages to approximately 60,000 employees at the vice president level and below in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, according to multiple sources. The…
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Google and Amazon launch PyTorch tools for their AI chips to compete with Nvidia
Google and Amazon are challenging Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware by releasing open-source tools that enable developers to run PyTorch workloads natively on their custom chips. Google’s TorchTPU integrates with…
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Anthropic files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO targeting up to $100 billion in proceeds at a $2 trillion valuation
Anthropic publicly filed its Form S-1 registration statement with the SEC on October 26, 2026, for a planned Nasdaq IPO under the ticker 'ANT'. The filing, accepted at 9:00:11 a.m. Eastern, reveals the company is…
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Monolithic Power Systems and Analog Devices linked to AI data center power demand
Markets are being pulled by elections in Brazil and Serbia, oil worries in the Middle East, and a busy earnings week for Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon. The article uses this backdrop to highlight three AI‑focused…
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US data centre growth sparks political backlash ahead of November midterms
Data centres are expanding rapidly worldwide, with the US hosting 4,767 sites as of 2026, up from around 8,000 globally in 2021. Their growing electricity consumption, which rivals that of France, and environmental…
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Anthropic reports $131.7 billion in cash and over $500 billion in future compute commitments ahead of IPO
Anthropic disclosed $131.7 billion in cash and short-term investments as of June 30, 2026, in its S-1 filing, surpassing all non-bank U.S. companies except Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet. The company also reported…
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Amazon Bee review: $75 AI wearable summarizes conversations and suggests actions
A Techmeme review describes Amazon's Bee device as a surprisingly capable $75 AI wearable that focuses on passive listening rather than active interaction. Unlike complex predecessors like Humane or Rabbit, Bee…
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OpenAI's Dots reaches 1 million users in a week as Amazon blocks access
OpenAI’s always‑on AI agent Dots hit the one‑million‑user mark within a week of its September 29 announcement, showing rapid consumer interest in autonomous shopping assistants. The surge follows Meta’s Muse topping…
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Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
A newly discovered vulnerability in the open-source programming language PHP forced website owners to urgently patch or shut down sites. The flaw, found by human researchers at OpenAI and Wiz (now owned by Google), has…
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Apollo analysis finds AI delivers zero financial payoff outside Magnificent Seven
Apollo Global Management's chief economist Torsten Slok reported that despite massive AI investments, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside the Magnificent Seven tech stocks.…
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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra with halved API pricing and improved computer use performance
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a new mid-tier AI model positioned as a faster, cheaper alternative for everyday computer-based tasks such as reading screens, filling forms, and editing videos. The model is now…
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Ahead of AI releases eight‑hour video course on building reasoning models from scratch
Ahead of AI has published a new eight‑video series, totaling about 11 hours, that walks through building a reasoning model from a pre‑trained Qwen3 0.6B model using Python and PyTorch. The course starts with loading…
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Microsoft and Amazon see AI spending boost cloud revenue
AI capex is soaring, with S&P Global warning that total spending could top $1.3 trillion in 2027. Amazon has raised its capital expenditures to $220 billion this year, most of it earmarked for AI. Its AWS unit now runs…
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Chainguard CEO dan lorenc prematurely releases php flaw info, triggers global panic
chainguard ceo dan lorenc released information about a php flaw discovered with openai‑powered tools before the coordinated disclosure deadline. the leak prompted urgent warnings from cyber agencies in europe, the us,…
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Anthropic CEO says AI partners are a terrible use of AI
Anthropic CEO Daniela Amodei stated in an interview that using AI as a romantic partner is a "terrible use of AI," arguing it distances humans from one another. The remarks, reported by Business Insider on October 15,…
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SemiAnalysis tests Trainium3 PyTorch stack, finds better profiling than Nvidia
SemiAnalysis engineers spent weeks testing Amazon's Trainium3 racks with the new TorchNeuron backend and report a native PyTorch experience that works in eager mode with torch.compile and standard distributed APIs.…
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Amazon stores $5 billion in Nvidia servers due to power shortages
Amazon is holding billions of dollars worth of Nvidia AI servers in warehouses because its data centers lack sufficient electricity to power them, according to a Business Insider report. Internal emails reviewed by the…
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Bayer Crop Science launches agentic decision engine on AWS Bedrock
Bayer Crop Science created the Agentic Decision Engine (ADE), a natural‑language interface that sits on top of its Connected Decision Engine (CDE). ADE uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to route user questions through a…
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Amazon scrubs plans to build four data centers in Loudoun County
Amazon scrapped plans to build four data centers on the former George Washington University campus in Loudoun County, Virginia. The 122‑acre site will instead be repurposed for mixed‑use and residential development.…
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Investors watch AMD, Google, and Amazon challenge NVIDIA in AI chips
NVIDIA currently dominates the AI chip market, but investors are closely monitoring its competitors as they seek a larger share of the industry. Major tech companies like AMD, Google, and Amazon are developing their…
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Etsy bans AI-generated recipes and patterns from its marketplace
Etsy announced it will stop allowing merchants to sell AI‑generated recipes, crochet, sewing patterns and other functional guide digital downloads. The company said sellers must provide at least one unedited photo of a…
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Amazon rebrands Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+ and adds AI-narrated audiobooks
Amazon has renamed its Kindle Unlimited subscription to Kindle+ and kept the $12‑a‑month price. The service still offers unlimited reading from an eligible Kindle catalog, but it now expands the audiobook section with…
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Amazon Polly adds 14 generative voices and Hindi, Finnish support
Amazon announced a major upgrade to its Polly Generative engine, now generally available in production. The update adds 14 new voices across nine locales, bringing the catalog to 57 generative voices in 11 languages…
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IskayPet builds corporate knowledge assistant on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases
IskayPet, a leading pet‑care company in Iberia operating more than 330 stores across Spain, Portugal and France, built a corporate knowledge assistant on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases. The assistant answers…
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Amazon SageMaker adds training session APIs for custom LLM loops
Amazon SageMaker AI introduces training session APIs that let developers write their own training loops in Python while the service runs the GPU‑bound operations. The APIs expose core steps such as forwardbackward(),…
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Guardian: Global AI regulation must advance despite US opposition
The Guardian argues that the recent emergency patching of critical PHP vulnerabilities highlights the dual role of AI in cybersecurity. While AI helped researchers identify the flaws, it also accelerates the ability of…
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Arizona appeals court overturns sentence after AI-generated victim video influences ruling
An Arizona appeals court reversed a road‑rage murder sentence after a deep‑fake video of the victim was introduced, which the defense said unfairly prejudiced the jury. The family had created statements the deceased…
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Cohere releases Rerank 5 with passage-level context focus and calibrated scores
Cohere AI announced Rerank 5, a retrieval‑reranking model offered in Pro and Fast tiers. Both versions run on a 32K token context window, support over 100 languages and can be accessed via the Cohere API, Model Vault,…
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Amazon SageMaker AI streams Kokoro-82M TTS per sentence to halve voice latency
The post explains how to stream text‑to‑speech for AI voice agents by sending each sentence to a hosted Kokoro-82M model on an Amazon SageMaker AI real‑time endpoint. The model runs on a single ml.g5.xlarge GPU…
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Rescale builds AI triage agent using Claude Opus 4.8 on Amazon Bedrock
Rescale, a digital engineering platform, created an AI‑driven triage agent to automatically classify and route nightly end‑to‑end test failures. The five‑day, in‑person workshop used the AI‑Driven Development Lifecycle…
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Spotify aims to be the music service agents pick in the AI age
Spotify reported a strong third quarter with 788 million monthly active users and nearly €5 billion (around $5.6 billion USD) in revenue. Co‑CEO Gustav Söderström said the company sees a future where AI assistants…
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Tuesday Labs takes $200 deposits for $20K Voxel robot butler, shipping targeted for 2028
Tuesday Labs, a New York startup run by a Boston Dynamics alum, is taking $200 refundable deposits for Voxel, a two‑legged home robot designed to tidy rooms, water plants, fetch objects and locate lost keys. The…
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Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse shopping agent as retailers grow wary
Meta’s Muse AI shopping assistant has run into increasing resistance from major retailers. Amazon, which previously sued Perplexity over its own shopping bot, recently barred Muse from accessing its site, and Amazon…
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US and China build rival AI empires that extend geopolitical power
The essay argues that artificial intelligence has become an imperial technology, allowing the United States and China to extend their existing geopolitical influence. Both powers control the key inputs—large language…
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Walmart launches Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles to let AI agents shop for customers
Walmart announced the rollout of its Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles to enable AI agents to shop on its website and Sam’s Club on behalf of customers, with controls for approvals, spending limits, and purchase…
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Google DeepMind staff resign over AI military contracts with US and Israel
Several Google DeepMind employees, including Sofia Liguori and Andreas Kirsch, have resigned or are preparing to leave due to concerns over the company's AI contracts with the US and Israeli militaries. They cite…
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Meta's five‑year cds spread rises to 111.57 bps
Meta's five‑year credit‑default swap (CDS) spread climbed to 111.57 basis points on Tuesday, up from 68.23 on April 20, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The increase signals that investors are demanding higher…
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LightCRS boosts multi-domain conversational recommendation accuracy and speed
LightCRS is a new lightweight framework that unifies multimodal conversational recommendation across many product categories. The system pre‑computes product embeddings offline with frozen vision‑language encoders,…
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Anthropic reports $80.7 billion loss in first half of 2026 amid rising infrastructure costs and upcoming IPO
Anthropic reported a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026, according to draft prospectus documents reviewed by Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. The loss was primarily driven by accounting…
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Alphabet loses $860B in value as AI spending outpaces Apple
Alphabet has lost approximately $860 billion in market value since its peak, a sum nearly equal to Walmart's entire valuation of $937.1 billion. In contrast, Apple remains near all-time highs, valued at $4.95 trillion,…
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Smartsheet launches MCP Server for AI agents to manage work data on AWS
Smartsheet announced the general availability of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, a standardized layer that lets AI agents read, write, and manage Smartsheet data. The server supports more than 40 Smartsheet…
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Amazon fine‑tunes GPT‑OSS‑20B on SageMaker HyperPod to reach 100% multilingual reasoning
The base GPT‑OSS‑20B model, trained only in English, scored 22% correct reasoning-language on a 50‑example multilingual test (English 100%, French 0%, German 10%, Spanish 0%, Italian 0%). Using supervised fine‑tuning…
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Questions about Amazon
What is the latest Amazon news?
As of 28 October 2026: Alphabet reports Waymo revenue of $372 million, loss of $2.05 billion. Alphabet disclosed in its third-quarter earnings report that its Other Bets segment, which includes Waymo and Isomorphic, generated $372 million in revenue.
How much funding has Amazon raised?
Amazon has $8.0B in reported deals covered by Digest AI: $8.0B financing in October 2026.