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Anthropic's IPO: VCs will make billions, but Amazon stands to make far more
Anthropic's IPO filing shows that no venture firm owns even 5% of the company. Amazon looks set to be the biggest winner, thanks to convertible notes that have multiplied in value over three years.
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Amazon takes aim at Nvidia with TorchNeuron, loosening PyTorch's grip on GPUs
AWS has released TorchNeuron, a tool that moves PyTorch apps onto Amazon's own Trainium chips with a single line of configuration. The company also plans to make the popular framework less dependent on Nvidia's hardware.
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The web is slamming its doors on AI agents
Tech giants promise autonomous helpers that book dinners, buy shoes, and clean your inbox. But major websites increasingly refuse to let them in.
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Amazon pens a scary blog warning towns not to block its data centers
AWS chief Matt Garman used a lengthy blog post to urge Americans to back AI data center projects — or risk "irreparable harm" to the US economy and national security.
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Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from its store
The retailer has cut off the Muse assistant that shopped on users' behalf: Meta never told Amazon it was coming, and the agent, Amazon says, browsed without identifying itself and appeared to capture customer credentials.
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Iranian Strikes on Amazon Data Centers Led to Irrecoverable Loss of Customer Data
The military destruction of AWS data centers exceeded the level of stress Amazon's services are designed to withstand, and some user data was lost beyond any possibility of recovery.
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FTC Accuses Amazon of Secretly Inflating Ad Prices
The US Federal Trade Commission and the attorneys general of 22 states have sued Amazon, accusing the company of rigging its advertising auctions in a scheme that allegedly netted more than $20 billion at customers' expense.
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Vulnerability in Amazon's Kiro AI Editor Allows Data Theft via Prompt Injection
Researchers at Mindguard have shown how a malicious repository can force the agentic development environment Kiro to quietly send local data to an external server — without a single command from the user.
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AWS Acquires DuckLabs: DuckDB Stays Open
The team behind the analytical DBMS DuckDB will join Amazon Web Services as early as the start of September. The developers promise that the “duck stack” will remain free under the MIT license.
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Amazon Is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
The company that started out selling books online is now buying up rare editions, slicing off their spines and scanning the pages — all to get fresh data for its language models.
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By Default, Twitch Hands Streamers' Content to Amazon for AI Training
Twitch will use recordings of broadcasts to train Amazon's generative models — and creators are enrolled by default. The only way out is to opt out manually, and one of the platform's top executives was refreshingly honest about why.
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Amazon's Texas Data Center to Get One of the Dirtiest Power Sources in the U.S.
For a new data center in West Texas, Amazon has invested in a gas-fired power plant that is permitted to emit up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year — more than the country's largest coal plant.
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AWS Caught with $1.7 Billion in Inaccurate Cost Data
Hacker News users are discussing a report that Amazon Web Services' estimated billing data turned out to be inaccurate by $1.7 billion. The topic sparked a wide response in the community.
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Amazon Stops Registering New Requesters on Mechanical Turk
Amazon is halting the onboarding of new clients on its crowdsourcing task platform Mechanical Turk. The service is likely living out its final days.