Amazon: Latest News and Analysis

The Verge
Amazon Prime will shut down its clothing try-on program
Amazon will be winding down its Prime Try Before You Buy program, which let Prime members try on clothes before paying for them, reports The Information. It will shutter on January 31st, according to ...
SCMP
Inside the Innovation at Goodnotes: How Generative AI is Redefining Digital Note-Taking
Known for pioneering features like Apple Pencil compatibility and earning Apple’s iPad App of the Year in 2022, Goodnotes continues to push boundaries in digital handwriting and organization. The ...
TechCrunch
AWS says it’ll invest ‘at least’ $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia
Amazon's cloud computing division says that it plans to invest "at least" $11 billion in Georgia to expand its data center infrastructure.
Reuters
Amazon's AWS to invest $11 bln in Georgia to boost AI infrastructure development
Amazon.com said on Tuesday that its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), plans to invest about $11 billion to expand its infrastructure in Georgia to support cloud computing and AI ...
SCMP
AI start-up Anthropic to raise US$2 billion at US$60 billion valuation, sources say
The new funding will mark a jump in valuation for Anthropic, a major competitor of OpenAI in the foundation model space.
Wall Street Journal
Amazon Plans to Invest at Least $11 Billion in Cloud and AI Infrastructure in Georgia
The investment aims to meet the increased demand for advanced cloud infrastructure and compute power, driven by generative AI, it said.
TechCrunch
Microsoft backs its $3B AI push in India with public and private sector deals
Microsoft announced a sweeping series of artificial intelligence partnerships across India's core sectors on Wednesday, a day after pledging to invest $3 Microsoft has forged AI alliances across core ...
CRN
AWS CISO On Cybersecurity ‘Baked Into’ Chips, Security Services And Marketplace
AWS cybersecurity leader on security innovation inside Intel, AMD and Apple chips, also Nitro, EC2, services and AWS Marketplace.
The Register
Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook
Engineer who works on ways to prove code's mathematically correct finds his field's suddenly much less obscure ...
Financial Times
Healthcare turns to AI for medical note-taking ‘scribes’
Hospitals and general physicians across the UK’s National Health Service are trialling AI note-taking as a way to save time and improve doctor-patient interactions. According to a Mayo Clinic study, ...
The Register
AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform
AWS has previously indicated it was in favor of Iceberg as the default table format, which is a rival to the Linux Foundation's Delta Lake, developed by Databricks. In August 2023, AWS said Redshift ...
ARPU
Amazon Crackdown: Chinese Sellers Banned from Undercutting on Temu

Amazon has instructed some Chinese cross-border merchants to cease offering their products at lower prices on rival platform Temu, according to multiple sellers cited by the South China Morning Post. This move comes amidst escalating competition from Temu, a budget retailer owned by Chinese e-commerce giant PDD Holdings.

Sellers indicate

Bloomberg
Universal Music Group Expands Partnership With Amazon Music
Universal Music Group NV, the world’s largest record label, expanded its global partnership with Amazon.com Inc.’s premium music service to boost fan engagement and fraud protection.
Financial Times
Dozens of UK Amazon workers suffer serious injuries leading to union anger
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dozens of Amazon workers in the UK have suffered serious injuries over recent years, including being blinded or ...
ARPU
Amazon Sellers Revolt Over New Reimbursement Policy

Amazon's latest move to change its reimbursement policy for lost or damaged inventory under its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program has sparked outrage among third-party sellers, reports Modern Retail. The change, announced just before Christmas, will see Amazon reimburse sellers based on the manufacturing cost of the item,

Fortune
Matt Garman rose from intern to AWS CEO. Inside the ‘unflappable’ exec’s plan to defend Amazon’s $100 billion profit machine in the age of AI
Six months into his tenure leading the world's dominant cloud computing provider, Garman must navigate a confluence of new challenges.
VentureBeat
Stable Diffusion 3.5 hits Amazon Bedrock: What it means for enterprise AI workflows
Stability AI CEO drives enterprise AI focus home as the flagship Stable Diffusion models land on Amazon Bedrock.
Fortune
AWS CEO Matt Garman on startups, nuclear power, and soaring AI compute costs
X-energy CEO J. Clay Sell told Fortune via email: "Amazon needs clean, safe, secure electricity as it scales its data center growth and experiences higher power demand. We see this collaboration as an ...
ARPU
Amazon Delays Return-to-Office Mandate for Thousands

Amazon.com Inc. is delaying its return-to-office mandate for thousands of employees in multiple cities, pushing back full-time in-office work by as much as four months, reports Bloomberg. The move comes as the company struggles to accommodate its large workforce in existing office spaces.

The company recently informed employees in

ARPU
Amazon Workers Stage Major Strike During Key Holiday Period

Thousands of Amazon workers across multiple US warehouses will walk off the job Thursday, disrupting the online retailer's operations during its busiest time of year, reports Reuters. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Teamsters) union, representing approximately 1% of Amazon's US hourly workforce, says the strike is

Reuters
Amazon workers go on strike in US ahead of Christmas rush as union seeks contract talks
Amazon.com workers at seven U.S. facilities walked off the job early on Thursday during the holiday shopping rush, aiming to pressure the retailer into contract talks with their union.
CRN
Amazon Security Chief On Stopping 2.7 Trillion EC2 Attacks, 28 Billion S3 Storage Attempts
Amazon cybersecurity leader CJ Moses on stopping trillions of EC2 cyberattacks, billions of AWS S3 storage and DDoS attacks, and threat actors.
Reuters
Italian police search couriers in tax and labour probe into Amazon, SDA and GLS
Italy's tax police on Tuesday searched the headquarters of nine courier companies for alleged false invoices benefiting ecommerce and logistics giants Amazon, SDA and GLS, a search order reviewed by ...
Inc
Temu Leaves Amazon in E-Commerce Dust, Topping Apple’s Most-Downloaded Apps List
Shopping, social media apps and ChatGPT are consumers’ favorite apps this year, reflecting the strength of AI's rise and the clout of Chinese-owned digital offerings.
Wall Street Journal
Amazon Teamsters Authorize Third Strike at U.S. Facility
Illinois union members join workers in New York City in calling for a work stoppage.
CRN
The 10 Biggest AWS News Stories Of 2024: CEO Exit, AI And Partners
AWS news stories in 2024 include Adam Selipsky leaving, AI innovation, chip products, cloud market share, VMware Broadcom and CEO Matt Garman.
Fortune
Amazon’s AGI boss: You don’t need a PhD in machine learning to build with AI anymore
The bar to build with AI has suddenly reduced,” Rohit Prasad said at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference this week in San Francisco.
SiliconANGLE
AWS aims to strengthen AI and data with GraphRAG support and InfluxDB partnership
Foundational elements are coming together to drive innovation, including when it comes to the AWS InfluxData partnership.
TechCrunch
Amazon is officially in the online car sales business
Amazon expanded Tuesday into online car sales with the launch of Amazon Autos, an e-commerce business that lets customers find, order, and buy new cars, ...
TechCrunch
Amazon forms a new AI agent-focused lab led by Adept co-founder
Amazon says that it's establishing a new R&D lab in San Francisco, the Amazon AGI SF Lab, to focus on building AI agents.
SiliconANGLE
Reimagining data: How AWS S3 Tables redefine analytics and scalability
Learn how AWS S3 Tables redefine data storage with mutable SQL-like datasets, seamless integrations and enhanced scalability through Nitro disaggregation.
TechCrunch
Amazon forms an AI agent-focused lab led by Adept’s co-founder
Amazon says that it's establishing a new R&D lab in San Francisco, the Amazon AGI SF Lab, to focus on building AI agents.
Fortune
Amazon’s top AI exec says industry concerns that LLMs hit a ‘wall’ are overblown, says Jeff Bezos ‘very involved’ in AI efforts
Speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco, Amazon SVP and head of Artificial General Intelligence Rohit Prasad dismissed concerns of the industry's feared "AI wall." ...
Reuters
Amazon joins India's quick commerce race with trials for 15-minute grocery delivery
Amazon will begin trials for quick commerce operations in India that would see the U.S. e-commerce giant deliver grocery items in 15 minutes or less, it said on Tuesday.
CRN
Storing, Feeding And Managing Data For Cloud, AI: The Biggest Storage News At AWS re:Invent 2024
Multiple storage vendors, along with Amazon itself, took advantage of this month’s AWS re:Invent 2024 conference to introduce and demonstrate new storage technologies aimed at helping businesses ...
SiliconANGLE
AWS re:Invent 2024: Builder ethos embraces simplicity
In this Breaking Analysis, we explore the critical takeaways from re:Invent 2024. Leveraging insights from Enterprise Technology Research data, we’ll unpack AWS’ strategy, the implications for the ...
Fortune
Exclusive: Leaked Amazon documents identify critical flaws in the delayed AI reboot of Alexa
The planned update to voice assistant Alexa is bogged down with problems including latency, which requires "significant improvements,” an internal memo said.
CRN
CEO Antonio Neri On HPE’s Supercomputing Advantage Over AWS, ‘Huge’ VM Essentials Opportunity And 'Super Strong’ Results
HPE CEO Antonio Neri said he does not see traditional supercomputing workloads moving to AWS’ just announced UltraCluster AI supercomputer.
ARPU
GitLab and AWS Team Up to Integrate AI Agents into Developer Workflow

GitLab and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to integrate Amazon's Q autonomous AI agents into GitLab's Duo AI assistant, aiming to boost developer productivity and accelerate software innovation, reports TechCrunch.

This collaboration goes beyond a simple integration, involving joint engineering efforts to seamlessly link the

SiliconANGLE
Andy Jassy returns to AWS re:Invent as Amazon beefs up its AI chops
And if anyone doubted its AI resolve, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (pictured) was the one to introduce the Nova models, signaling in no uncertain terms that Amazon intends to be among the major players in AI ...
VentureBeat
AWS now allows prompt caching with 90% cost reduction
AWS added Intelligent Prompt Routing and Prompt Caching to Bedrock in hopes of getting model usage prices down.
CRN
Amazon Nova AI Models And New ‘Killer Feature’ In Bedrock Are Huge AWS Partner Opportunities
Amazon Nova foundational models and Amazon Bedrock new latency inference for AI foundational models are wins for AWS, partners said at AWS re:Invent 2024.
VentureBeat
Amazon HyperPod Task Governance keeps GPUs running, cutting costs 40%
HyperPod Task Governance can increase GPU utilization, helping enterprises to optimize AI costs and producing potentially significant savings.
Fortune
Amazon’s new AI cloud strategy feels strangely familiar
Andrew Nusca Want to send thoughts or suggestions to Data Sheet? Drop a line here. This story was originally featured on Fortune.com ...
Inc
What It Means That Amazon Just Unveiled a New AI Supercomputer, and New Gen-AI Models
The e-commerce and cloud computing giant is pushing to join the top tier of AI players and is spending big money to get there.
ARPU
Amazon and Anthropic Team Up to Build World's Largest AI Supercomputer

Amazon is collaborating with Anthropic, a leading AI company, to construct one of the world's most powerful AI supercomputers, according to a report by WIRED. This mega-project, codenamed "Project Rainer," will be five times larger than the cluster used to build Anthropic's current most

Fortune
Amazon’s new AI cloud strategy is ripped straight from the ecommerce playbook that built a $2 trillion juggernaut
Those have been crucial keys to Amazon’s e-commerce dominance for the past two decades. Now the tech titan seems to be doubling down on this winning playbook by borrowing pieces of it to propel a ...
TechCrunch
AWS wants Amazon Q to become your buddy for the entire software development life cycle
Invent conference, AWS today announced a series of updates to Q Developer, its coding assistant platform that competes with the likes of GitHub ...
CRN
AWS CEO re:Invent Keynote: 7 Bold Google, Windows, VMware And ‘Game-Changing’ Innovation Remarks
Invent 2024 keynote from Matt Garman touted new Amazon Q, chips and products to compete with Google Spanner, VMware and Microsoft Windows.