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Amazon is the e-commerce and cloud giant whose AWS unit is the world's largest cloud and a key AI infrastructure provider with Bedrock and Trainium chips. It is also Anthropic's biggest investor and is rebuilding Alexa around generative AI. All our Amazon and AWS coverage is on this page.
AI tokens are driving up corporate cloud bills — ZDNet flags the trend
Large companies' spending on AI tokens is growing uncontrollably, echoing the chaos of early cloud pricing — only this time it's even harder to measure the value of…
Abu Dhabi's MGX fund raises about $50 billion to accelerate AI investment
Abu Dhabi's technology fund MGX has closed a raise of about $50 billion from regional and international investors to finance AI infrastructure.
Baseten raises $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation — a bet on cheap AI models
Baseten, a startup providing infrastructure for budget AI models, has closed a Series F round of $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation, with participation from…
HP Inc. expands partnership with OpenAI to Frontier status for enterprise AI
SpaceX acquired AI editor Cursor for $60 billion right after going public
Amazon SageMaker AI removed mandatory S3 upload for asynchronous inference
Amazon Q launched autonomous agents — they run in the background while you do other things
Amazon updates Bedrock AgentCore: agents gain access to enterprise knowledge and monitoring
AWS has expanded the Bedrock AgentCore platform: agents can now connect to internal and external knowledge bases, and teams have gained tools for production…
Bank of Korea warns: AI bonuses in the semiconductor sector could fuel inflation
South Korea's central bank has warned that record bonuses at tech companies amid the AI chip boom could trigger wage growth and consumer demand across the economy.
Proception Settles Tesla Trade Secret Lawsuit and Raises $11 Million
AI companies are not raising prices for users while Nvidia and Micron collect record profits
Startups become the main pathway to bigtech: how AI is reshaping hiring in IT
Citi analyst: Europe is an undervalued AI play amid a shift in investment logic
AWS and NVIDIA launched large-scale training for the Unitree H1 robot on SageMaker AI
Together with NVIDIA, AWS showed how to train control policies for the Unitree H1 humanoid in the cloud — through SageMaker HyperPod and Training Jobs with Isaac…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore automates initial intake of insurance claims
AWS showed how an AI agent using Strands SDK analyzes an insurance case while Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool independently enters data into insurers' portals…