Amazon
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.
Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics and added the humanoid robot Sprout to its portfolio
Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics along with the 23-kilogram humanoid Sprout — the company's second robotics deal in a month and a stronger bet on home and utility…
AWS describes V-RAG — an approach to AI video generation grounded in an image database
AWS describes V-RAG — a setup in which a video model receives not only text, but also images retrieved from a database, to make videos more accurate, cheaper, and…
Silicon Valley faces an AI PR crisis amid growing distrust in the US
US AI companies are facing not only a race over models, but also a crisis of trust: people are alarmed by layoffs, opaque systems, and the rising cost of data…
Ring moved support for 10 regions to Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and cut costs
DoorDash invested in Also as Rivian spin-off topped $1 billion valuation
AWS opens access to frontier agents for pentesting and DevOps operations in the cloud
AWS showed how to restrict AgentCore AI agents' access to approved domains only
AWS added persistent session storage and shell command execution to Bedrock AgentCore
AWS showed how to preserve an agent's working directory between sessions in Bedrock AgentCore and run shell commands in the same microVM, so tests, builds, and git…
AWS introduces ActorSimulator for testing multi-turn AI agents in Strands Evals
AWS added ActorSimulator to Strands Evals: it models realistic users and helps test AI agents in multi-turn dialogues with goals, personas, and step tracing.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google asked to disclose data center water and energy use
Amazon may sell its AI chips to third parties as the business heads toward $20 billion
AWS demonstrates Text-to-SQL on Amazon Bedrock for translating business questions into SQL
Anthropic and Amazon show how AI at work erodes skills
AWS showed how to cut text-to-SQL costs for business with Amazon Nova Micro and Bedrock
AWS outlined two ways to fine-tune Amazon Nova Micro for custom SQL generation and showed that serverless inference via Bedrock can cost about $0.80 a month for…
Guardian discussed whether to say "thank you" to Alexa and other AI assistants
Guardian gathered readers' answers to the question of whether people need to be polite to Alexa and chatbots: some see it as training empathy, while others see…