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CNBC
Amazon to gain creative control of James Bond franchise from Broccoli family
Amazon reached a deal with the Broccoli family, the James Bond franchise's longstanding producers, to form a new joint venture.
CRN
AWS CEO On Biggest Investments, AI, Partner Goals And Top Priority In 2025
AWS CEO Matt Garman talks AI impacts in 2025, tech innovation investments in silicon, cloud, storage, GenAI, AWS partners and Amazon customer challenges.
Reuters
STMicroelectronics to launch data centre photonics chip developed with Amazon
STMicroelectronics on Thursday said it is launching a new computer chip targeting the booming market for AI data centre equipment, which it has developed in cooperation with Amazon's web services arm ...
Reuters
Amazon to stop support for communications service Chime next year
Amazon said it would stop support for its unified communications service, Chime, next year and will not accept new customers beginning Wednesday.
The Verge
International Kindle Scribe customers can now directly jot notes onto ebook pages
Amazon’s now rolling out all the latest Kindle Scribe AI features to 2024 and 2022 Scribe owners in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. As I wrote in my review, the AI features are the 2024 ...
TechRadar
Amazon EC2 instances under fire from whoAMI attacks potentially giving hackers code execution access
The vulnerability, found in Amazon Machine Image (AMI), was discovered in the summer of 2024 by cybersecurity researchers DataDog, and has now been confirmed by Amazon, which said it fixed the issue ...
ARPU
Amazon Wins Big in North Carolina Union Vote
Amazon workers in North Carolina have voted against joining a union, delivering a significant victory to the retail giant in its ongoing battle against organized labor. Reuters reports that roughly three-quarters of voters rejected unionization at the company's large warehouse in Garner, a substantial setback for union officials.
CNBC
Amazon workers reject union in vote at North Carolina warehouse
Organizers had been campaigning at the warehouse since 2022, hoping to secure higher wages and longer breaks.
ARPU
UK Government to Explore Anthropic's AI Chatbot Claude for Public Services
The UK government has announced a collaboration with AI startup Anthropic, backed by Google and Amazon, to explore the use of its chatbot Claude for public services, Reuters reports.The partnership aims to improve public interaction with information and services, aligning with Prime Minister Keir Starmer's goal of
scmp.com
Securing the Future of AI: How DeepSeek on Amazon Bedrock Supports Enterprise Needs
By offering DeepSeek-R1 models on Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker JumpStart and Custom Model Import, Amazon Web Services (AWS) aims to empower businesses across Asia and the globe, making sure customers ...
CRN
How Arm Is Winning Over AWS, Google, Microsoft And Nvidia In Data Centers
In an interview with CRN, the head of Arm’s infrastructure business talks about how the company has convinced Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Nvidia to use its technologies to ...
MIT Technology Review
AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
We often take the internet for granted. It’s an ocean of information at our fingertips—and it simply works. But this system relies on swarms of “crawlers”—bots that roam the web, visit millions of websites every day, and report what they see. This is how Google powers its search engines, how Amazon sets competitive prices, and…
ARPU
Amazon Shares Plunge as Cloud Growth Disappoints
Amazon shares took a significant hit on Friday, falling 4%, after the company's quarterly cloud computing revenue growth fell short of investor expectations, as reported by Reuters. This slowdown comes despite massive investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and follows similar disappointing results from Microsoft and Alphabet-owned Google.The
Digi Times
Amazon expects Trainium chip series to reach 4th gen amid growing adoption
Amazon has revealed that its in-house designed Trainium 2 processor is gaining traction among potential users, including Qualcomm, who are participating in its early-stage evaluation. Additionally, ...
CRN
AWS Vs. Microsoft Vs. Google Cloud Earnings Q4 2024 Face-Off
Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and AWS cloud sales for fourth quarter 2024 includes global market share, total revenue, operating income and sales growth comparison.
CRN
AWS Optimistic About Growth Despite Supply Chain, Power Constraints
AWS has already embraced China’s DeepSeek R1 frontier model in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, Jassy told financial analysts.
CNBC
Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI - CNBC
Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI  CNBC
Bloomberg
Amazon, Echoing Microsoft, Says It Can’t Keep Up With AI Demand - Bloomberg
Amazon, Echoing Microsoft, Says It Can’t Keep Up With AI Demand  Bloomberg
Bloomberg L.P.
Amazon Forecasts a Profit Miss on Rising AI Spending
Good morning. Amazon says profit in the current quarter will fall short of estimates. DOGE isn’t altering Treasury payment systems. And two insiders share a guide for a perfect Bangkok day. Listen to ...
ARPU
Amazon's Cloud Growth in Focus as Microsoft, Google Struggle
Amazon.com is facing intense scrutiny as investors await its fourth-quarter earnings report on Thursday, where its cloud computing performance will be under the microscope, Reuters reports. This comes after lackluster results from Microsoft and Google sent shockwaves through the tech sector, raising concerns about the viability of massive AI
Bloomberg L.P.
Amazon, Like Microsoft, Says It Can’t Keep Up With AI Demand
Amazon.com Inc. warned investors that it could face capacity constraints in its cloud computing division despite plans to invest some $100 billion this year, with most of the money going toward ...
Bloomberg L.P.
Amazon Cloud Needs to Deliver After Microsoft, Alphabet Misses
Amazon.com Inc. shares have largely climbed on the back of two trends: strength in its cloud business and a focus on costs. Now both could be in question.
Reuters
Amazon's AI revamp of Alexa assistant nears unveiling - Reuters
Amazon's AI revamp of Alexa assistant nears unveiling  Reuters
Reuters
Amazon's AI revamp of Alexa assistant nears unveiling
Amazon is set to release its long-awaited - and delayed - Alexa generative artificial intelligence voice service, said three people familiar with the matter, and has scheduled a press event for later ...
Reuters
Amazon's cloud business faces crucial test after rivals Microsoft, Google stumble
The pressure is on Amazon.com to deliver on lofty expectations for cloud computing in its fourth-quarter results on Thursday, after Microsoft and Google's lackluster reports jolted investor faith in ...
The Financial Times
Trump’s crackdown on trade loophole to hit Shein and Temu — and help Amazon
US ecommerce company Amazon had sought to counter the threat posed by cheap Chinese suppliers by launching the “Haul” brand offering products for less than $20 with shipping times of between one and ...
Reuters
Shein, Temu, Amazon Haul set for price hikes as US shuts trade loophole
Oil prices eased on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump repeated a pledge to raise U.S. oil production, unnerving traders a day after the country reported a much bigger-than-anticipated jump in ...
VentureBeat
How Thomson Reuters and Anthropic built an AI that tax professionals actually trust
Thomson Reuters integrates Anthropic's Claude AI into its legal and tax platforms, enhancing CoCounsel with AI tools that process on AWS.
scmp.com
Alibaba offers DeepSeek on cloud service after Microsoft, Amazon and Huawei
Alibaba Cloud users can log into its PAI Model Gallery, where DeepSeek’s latest models and ‘distilled’ versions of these products are found.
Reuters
EU to make Temu, Shein and Amazon liable for 'unsafe' goods, FT reports
The European Union is planning to make e-commerce platforms such as Temu, Shein and Amazon Marketplace liable for dangerous or illegal products sold online, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.