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Founded2006

Key PeopleMatt Garman

HeadquartersSeattle, USA

ProductsSageMaker, Bedrock, Trainium

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Amazon boosts India investment to $48 billion, expanding AI and cloud infrastructure by 2030

Amazon announced an additional $13 billion investment in India's AI and cloud infrastructure, bringing its total commitment to $48 billion through 2030. CEO Andy Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the expansion, which will support AWS data center capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad while creating millions of jobs and digitizing small businesses across the country.

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Amazon boosts India investment to $48 billion, expanding AI and cloud infrastructure by 2030

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Nokia and AWS expand partnership to deliver AI-driven autonomous networks for telecom operators

Nokia and AWS are expanding their collaboration to deliver AI-driven autonomous networks for telecommunications providers, enabling full operational stacks in the cloud. The partnership will run Nokia's Autonomous Networks Fabric on AWS, targeting Level 4 autonomy with operators already achieving automation rates exceeding 90% and service delivery times of four hours or less.

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Nokia and AWS expand partnership to deliver AI-driven autonomous networks for telecom operators

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Prime Day becomes AI commerce's biggest stress test as shopping agents reshape retail

Amazon's Prime Day 2026 is unfolding as the first major sales event where AI shopping agents actively research, recommend and complete purchases at scale. With 60% of shoppers likely to use AI for purchases and Bank of America projecting $21.6 billion in sales, the event will reveal how agentic commerce is transforming product discovery, customer behavior and the future of e-commerce infrastructure.

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Prime Day becomes AI commerce's biggest stress test as shopping agents reshape retail

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ArcelorMittal partners with AWS to deploy AI-driven automation across global steel operations

Steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services to accelerate industrial automation across its global manufacturing operations. The partnership integrates cloud and AI technologies directly into production facilities to enhance safety, asset reliability, and energy efficiency while enabling predictive maintenance and real-time optimization.

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ArcelorMittal partners with AWS to deploy AI-driven automation across global steel operations

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Amazon drops OpenAI movie after $50 billion investment raises conflict of interest concerns

Amazon MGM Studios has abandoned Artificial, a nearly-complete biographical drama about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, just months after investing $50 billion in the AI company. The decision came despite the film being in postproduction with test screenings already conducted. Multiple major studios have declined to pick up the project, signaling a troubling shift in Hollywood's willingness to critique Big Tech.

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Amazon drops OpenAI movie after $50 billion investment raises conflict of interest concerns

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Kyndryl expands AWS partnership to push enterprises beyond AI pilots into production

Kyndryl Holdings has expanded its multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services to accelerate agentic AI adoption and modernize mission-critical workloads. AWS is investing in Kyndryl's talent development and AI specialization, leveraging over 11,000 AWS-certified professionals to help customers move AI from experimentation to production-ready solutions.

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Kyndryl expands AWS partnership to push enterprises beyond AI pilots into production

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Amazon plans to sell Trainium AI chips directly, mounting a $50 billion challenge to Nvidia

Amazon Web Services is in talks to sell its Trainium AI chips to other companies for use in data centers, marking a major shift in strategy. The move could create a $50 billion business that directly competes with Nvidia's AI chip dominance. AWS AI chief Peter DeSantis confirmed early-stage discussions are underway, driven by surging demand that has seen Trainium3 capacity sell out almost instantly.

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Amazon plans to sell Trainium AI chips directly, mounting a $50 billion challenge to Nvidia

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Amazon employees face investigation after testifying against AI data centers at Seattle hearings

Three Amazon engineers are under investigation after speaking at Seattle City Council meetings that led to a one-year moratorium on AI data center construction. The employees, members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, say they were intimidated during HR meetings and are being monitored at work, with possible termination on the table. Amazon claims they may have violated company policy by speaking as representatives rather than private citizens.

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Amazon employees face investigation after testifying against AI data centers at Seattle hearings

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New Relic integrates with AWS Kiro to streamline AI-driven software development workflows

New Relic has integrated its Model Context Protocol Server with Kiro, Amazon Web Services' AI-native development environment. The one-click integration brings real-time observability insights directly into agentic coding workflows, enabling developers to query production metrics in natural language and validate AI-generated code changes before shipping.

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New Relic integrates with AWS Kiro to streamline AI-driven software development workflows

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CrowdStrike and AWS expand partnership to tackle AI security and frontier AI risk

CrowdStrike strengthens its collaboration with Amazon Web Services, expanding Project QuiltWorks to include AWS cloud workload infrastructure and introducing new AI security capabilities. The partnership adds 30-day free trials in AWS Marketplace for Falcon platform tools and extends protection across AI applications built on Amazon Bedrock, Kiro, and Strands Agents.

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CrowdStrike and AWS expand partnership to tackle AI security and frontier AI risk

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Amazon AI chief admits models lag OpenAI and Anthropic, aims to catch up within a year

Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis openly acknowledged that the company's models haven't reached frontier level compared to OpenAI and Anthropic. Despite investing $33 billion in Anthropic, Amazon is building its own rival models through Nova2 and plans to compete with leading AI labs within the coming year using custom silicon and proprietary data.

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Amazon AI chief admits models lag OpenAI and Anthropic, aims to catch up within a year

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AWS unveils AI agents for security and DevOps, but builds guardrails to keep them in check

AWS introduced new autonomous agents at its New York Summit, including Continuum for security vulnerabilities and enhanced Amazon Quick capabilities. The announcements reveal a careful balance between AI autonomy and human oversight, as the company deploys tools to monitor and control the same agents it claims can work independently.

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AWS unveils AI agents for security and DevOps, but builds guardrails to keep them in check

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Odyssey AI raises $310M for world models, partners with AWS as Nvidia sits out Series B

Odyssey AI secured $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation to advance AI world models that simulate the physical world. The round was led by Natural Capital with Amazon, AMD Ventures, and Google's GV participating. Notably absent was Nvidia, which backed the startup just four months earlier, as Odyssey partners with AWS and its Trainium chips instead.

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Odyssey AI raises $310M for world models, partners with AWS as Nvidia sits out Series B

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Former shoe company Allbirds completes AI pivot as Smartbird, hires new CEO with no team in place

The footwear company once valued at $4 billion has officially become Smartbird, an AI infrastructure firm. New CEO Nadia Carlsten, a former AWS executive, starts with $100 million in funding but zero employees, no customers, and no data centers. She's now tasked with building an AI compute business from scratch while investors watch closely.

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Former shoe company Allbirds completes AI pivot as Smartbird, hires new CEO with no team in place

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AWS Graviton5 launches with 192 Arm cores, challenging Intel and AMD in cloud computing

Amazon's latest Graviton5 processor features 192 Arm cores built on TSMC's 3nm process, delivering 35% faster AI inference and 30% faster database performance. Meta is deploying tens of millions of cores as AWS positions its custom silicon against Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors. The chip marks a significant step in AWS's eight-year custom silicon journey, though the company's marketing push to frame it as an 'AI chip' has drawn criticism from industry observers.

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AWS Graviton5 launches with 192 Arm cores, challenging Intel and AMD in cloud computing

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