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Amazon secures $17.5 billion credit facility to accelerate AI infrastructure investments

Amazon has locked in a $17.5 billion credit facility to support its aggressive AI expansion plans, including investments in OpenAI and Anthropic. The e-commerce giant is part of a broader technology sector push, with aggregate spending on AI infrastructure projected to exceed $700 billion this year as companies race to build computing capacity.

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Amazon secures $17.5 billion credit facility to accelerate AI infrastructure investments

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Seattle passes one-year data center moratorium as Amazon employees join backlash against AI boom

Seattle City Council unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, making it the largest U.S. city to halt AI infrastructure expansion. The decision came after four companies proposed five facilities that would consume 369 megawatts—about one-third of Seattle's daily electricity use. Amazon employees were among the most vocal supporters, citing concerns over power consumption, rising utility bills, and environmental impact.

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Seattle passes one-year data center moratorium as Amazon employees join backlash against AI boom

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Amazon launches AI-generated custom merch feature, challenging Redbubble and Printful

Amazon rolled out an AI-powered feature that lets customers design custom merchandise using text prompts through Alexa for Shopping. The service integrates with Amazon's Merch on Demand platform to produce personalized T-shirts, hoodies, tumblers, and more with Prime shipping. The move positions Amazon to compete directly with established print-on-demand platforms like Redbubble, Printful, and Etsy.

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Amazon launches AI-generated custom merch feature, challenging Redbubble and Printful

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Amazon strikes multibillion-dollar Corning deal for optical fiber to power AI data centers

Amazon has signed a multibillion-dollar agreement with Corning to supply optical fiber for its expanding AI data centers across the U.S. The multi-year partnership will create 1,000 jobs at Corning's North Carolina facilities and includes a fiber optic technician training program. The deal marks Corning's third major AI infrastructure agreement in 2026, following partnerships with Meta and Nvidia.

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Amazon strikes multibillion-dollar Corning deal for optical fiber to power AI data centers

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Amazon unveils AI warehouse robot that understands human speech in €10 billion Europe push

Amazon announced over €10 billion in European investments, unveiling an upgraded Proteus robot that responds to conversational prompts and can autonomously determine task priorities and routes. The expansion includes 25,000 new jobs, advanced robotics systems like STARK and Vulcan, and faster delivery infrastructure across Europe by 2027.

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Amazon unveils AI warehouse robot that understands human speech in €10 billion Europe push

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Amazon's Proteus robot now takes plain language orders as €10bn warehouse automation push begins

Amazon unveiled a next-generation Proteus warehouse robot that understands conversational commands at its London event. The AI-powered autonomous robot will deploy across Europe in early 2027 as part of a €10 billion investment to modernize fulfillment operations. While Amazon claims robotics creates jobs, the announcement comes amid 30,000 corporate layoffs driven by AI efficiencies.

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Amazon's Proteus robot now takes plain language orders as €10bn warehouse automation push begins

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Amazon Engineers Publicly Challenge AI Data Centers as Opposition Hits 71% Nationwide

Amazon software engineers appeared at Seattle City Council hearings to demand regulations on new data centers, marking a significant escalation in worker activism. Their testimony comes as public opposition to AI data centers has surged to 71%, up from just 42% nine months ago, with communities nationwide citing rising electricity costs, water consumption, and job displacement.

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Amazon Engineers Publicly Challenge AI Data Centers as Opposition Hits 71% Nationwide

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Amazon AI now generates fake product images as you search, sparking controversy over utility

Amazon introduced an AI search feature that generates images of fake products based on user search queries in its shopping app. The AI-generated product images appear below autocomplete suggestions for clothing and home goods, letting users tap on visualizations to find similar real items. Critics question why a retailer would show fake photos when millions of actual product images already exist.

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Amazon AI now generates fake product images as you search, sparking controversy over utility

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Amazon faces class-action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition scanning millions without consent

Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt filed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon, claiming the Ring 'Familiar Faces' feature collected facial recognition data from millions of Americans without their knowledge or consent. The suit seeks at least $5 million in damages and alleges violations of privacy laws, despite Ring making the feature opt-in for camera owners. Amazon declined to comment on the lawsuit.

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Amazon faces class-action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition scanning millions without consent

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STMicroelectronics doubles data center revenue forecast to $1B on surging AI demand

STMicroelectronics has doubled its data center revenue forecast to $1 billion for 2026, up from previous guidance of over $500 million, citing strong AI infrastructure demand. The Franco-Italian chipmaker's shares surged 10% to a 25-year high following the announcement. The company is also considering expanding its Crolles manufacturing facility to meet rising demand for silicon photonics.

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STMicroelectronics doubles data center revenue forecast to $1B on surging AI demand

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Amazon scraps internal AI leaderboard after employees game system through tokenmaxxing

Amazon has taken down KiroRank, an unofficial internal AI leaderboard, after employees began creating unnecessary AI agents to boost their rankings—a practice called tokenmaxxing. The initiative backfired as workers burned through costly tokens, driving up expenses while Amazon pushed for over 80% of developers to use AI weekly.

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Amazon scraps internal AI leaderboard after employees game system through tokenmaxxing

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Orbital Industries raises $50M Series B to scale AI-designed cooling fluid and data centers

Orbital Industries, formerly Orbital Materials, has closed a $50 million Series B round led by Plural with participation from Nvidia's NVentures. The London-and-San-Francisco startup is deploying AI to discover new materials for data centers, including a PFAS-free cooling fluid designed for next-generation GPUs and modular compute infrastructure that cuts deployment timelines from three years to six months.

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Orbital Industries raises $50M Series B to scale AI-designed cooling fluid and data centers

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Amazon AI fund greenlights three shows, but one gets canceled after intense backlash

Amazon MGM Studios launched its GenAI Creators' Fund, greenlighting three AI-generated animated series for Prime Video. But one show, Punky Duck, was canceled just 48 hours after announcement following intense online criticism. The incident reveals growing resistance to AI in filmmaking as Hollywood unions and audiences push back against AI production technology.

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Amazon AI fund greenlights three shows, but one gets canceled after intense backlash

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Amazon licenses its AI shopping technology to retailers through new AWS service

Amazon Web Services launched the AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant, packaging the technology behind Alexa for Shopping for other retailers. The service, which drove $12 billion in incremental sales for Amazon last year, can be deployed in 60 days. Kate Spade became the first customer, launching an AI Gift Concierge in April as competition intensifies among tech giants to control AI-powered commerce.

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Amazon licenses its AI shopping technology to retailers through new AWS service

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Jeff Bezos dismisses AI job fears, predicts labor shortage as tech reshapes work

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos rejects widespread concerns about AI taking your job, arguing the technology will instead elevate workers and create a labor shortage. Speaking on CNBC, he compared AI adoption to trading a shovel for a bulldozer, while critics like Geoffrey Hinton warn of mass white-collar job displacement.

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Jeff Bezos dismisses AI job fears, predicts labor shortage as tech reshapes work

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