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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.

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Amazon Nova Sonic: how to build real-time voice streaming applications
Creative·AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon Nova Sonic: how to build real-time voice streaming applications

May 16, 2026·3 min
Pulse AI and Amazon Bedrock for automating financial document processing
Business

Pulse AI and Amazon Bedrock for automating financial document processing

May 16, 2026·3 min
Secure browser for AI agents: how AWS Bedrock uses Chrome policies
Autonomous

Secure browser for AI agents: how AWS Bedrock uses Chrome policies

May 16, 2026·3 min
Stream Vision Agents with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic: voice bots for production in minutes
Autonomous

Stream Vision Agents with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic: voice bots for production in minutes

May 16, 2026·3 min
How to improve Amazon Lex bot accuracy with Assisted NLU
Creative·AWS Machine Learning Blog

How to improve Amazon Lex bot accuracy with Assisted NLU

AWS has introduced Assisted NLU for Amazon Lex, a tool that improves the accuracy of user intent recognition in chatbots. We explain how to implement it and…

May 16, 2026·3 min
Cerebras rose 68% on the debut day of 2026's largest IPO
Hardware·Bloomberg Tech

Cerebras rose 68% on the debut day of 2026's largest IPO

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a record $5.5 billion on the stock market, making it the year's largest IPO, while its shares jumped 68% on the first trading day.

May 16, 2026·3 min
Cerebras IPO: the year's main event in the AI infrastructure market
Hardware·Bloomberg Tech

Cerebras IPO: the year's main event in the AI infrastructure market

Cerebras Systems, a developer of specialized AI chips, carried out the year's largest IPO, strengthening its position in the race for leadership in the AI…

May 16, 2026·3 min
Andy Jassy rewrites Amazon's AI-era strategy
Startups·Bloomberg Tech

Andy Jassy rewrites Amazon's AI-era strategy

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced a large-scale AI investment strategy as the company faces competition from Google and Microsoft in cloud services.

May 16, 2026·3 min
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Tinder owner Match Group cuts hiring to pay for AI
Business·TechCrunch

Tinder owner Match Group cuts hiring to pay for AI

May 16, 2026·3 min
Anthropic and Elon Musk's xAI signed a deal for compute resources
Hardware·Wired

Anthropic and Elon Musk's xAI signed a deal for compute resources

May 16, 2026·3 min
AI app builders published thousands of apps with data leaks
Ethics·Wired

AI app builders published thousands of apps with data leaks

May 16, 2026·3 min
SpaceX launches $55 billion Terafab AI chip factory
Hardware·The Verge

SpaceX launches $55 billion Terafab AI chip factory

May 16, 2026·2 min
Microsoft emails revealed skepticism about OpenAI in 2018
Business·Wired

Microsoft emails revealed skepticism about OpenAI in 2018

Court evidence showed that Microsoft executives were skeptical of OpenAI, but feared it would come under Amazon's control.

May 16, 2026·3 min
Microsoft feared OpenAI would move to Amazon and criticize Azure
Creative·The Verge

Microsoft feared OpenAI would move to Amazon and criticize Azure

Court documents from the Musk v. Altman case revealed internal Microsoft correspondence: senior executives feared OpenAI might move to Amazon and criticize Azure…

May 16, 2026·3 min
Cloudflare cut 1,100 employees because of AI despite record revenue
Business·TechCrunch

Cloudflare cut 1,100 employees because of AI despite record revenue

Cloud platform Cloudflare carried out its first large-scale layoffs, cutting 1,100 employees mainly in support. CEO Matthew Prince attributes this to higher efficiency from AI tools. Despite the layof

May 16, 2026·2 min
General Motors shifts IT departments to AI development: layoffs and new roles
LLM·TechCrunch

General Motors shifts IT departments to AI development: layoffs and new roles

May 16, 2026·2 min
CUDA makes Nvidia not a chipmaker, but a software company
Hardware·Wired

CUDA makes Nvidia not a chipmaker, but a software company

May 16, 2026·3 min
Vapi reaches $500M valuation after being selected by Amazon Ring
Autonomous·TechCrunch

Vapi reaches $500M valuation after being selected by Amazon Ring

May 16, 2026·2 min
Amazon launched Alexa Shopping, a voice AI assistant for shopping
Ethics·TechCrunch

Amazon launched Alexa Shopping, a voice AI assistant for shopping

May 16, 2026·2 min
Amazon launched Alexa for Shopping — a shopping assistant on Amazon.com
Creative·The Verge

Amazon launched Alexa for Shopping — a shopping assistant on Amazon.com

May 16, 2026·2 min
OpenAI and SpaceX at the center of the week: Musk v. Altman ends, IPO nears
Robotics

OpenAI and SpaceX at the center of the week: Musk v. Altman ends, IPO nears

May 16, 2026·3 min
EU launches antitrust probe into the full AI technology chain of the largest corporations
Hardware

EU launches antitrust probe into the full AI technology chain of the largest corporations

May 3, 2026·2 min
GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and JetBrains: how lawyers assess AI in development environments
Autonomous

GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and JetBrains: how lawyers assess AI in development environments

May 2, 2026·3 min
Microsoft launched Copilot Health to analyze data from smartwatches and medical records
Medicine·3DNews AI

Microsoft launched Copilot Health to analyze data from smartwatches and medical records

Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, a new section in Copilot that analyzes health data from wearables, medical records, and lab tests.

May 2, 2026·2 min
AWS and Atos showed how gamification speeds up AI training for hundreds of employees
Business·AWS Machine Learning Blog

AWS and Atos showed how gamification speeds up AI training for hundreds of employees

Atos, together with AWS, ran a two-week AI League for 409 participants and showed that gamified fine-tuning competitions build practical skills faster than…

May 2, 2026·3 min