Amazon is reportedly negotiating a major investment of at least $50 billion in OpenAI, which is seeking $100 billion in new funding that could lift its valuation to $830 billion. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is leading talks with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while OpenAI also explores capital from sovereign wealth funds and tech giants. The deal is expected to close by the end of the first quarter, highlighting Amazon’s deep ties to the AI sector through its AWS partnership with Anthropic and a new $11 billion data‑center campus in Indiana. Leia mais →

Amazon is in advanced discussions with OpenAI about a $10 billion investment that would also see the AI startup adopt Amazon's Trainium chips and increase its use of Amazon Web Services. The proposed deal could lift OpenAI's valuation past $500 billion while deepening the company's reliance on Amazon's cloud and hardware infrastructure. At the same time, OpenAI continues to expand relationships with other technology partners, including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle and AMD, prompting investors to scrutinize the circular nature of its financing and compute arrangements. Leia mais →

Amazon Web Services announced a program that gives qualified early‑stage startups a free year of credits for its AI coding assistant, Kiro Pro+. The offer, unveiled by AWS CEO Matt Garman at the re:Invent conference, targets U.S. startups that have secured funding from pre‑seed to Series B and meet specific geographic criteria. Eligible companies can request credits for up to 100 users, with applications due by the end of the year. Leia mais →

Amazon executives highlighted the rapid growth of the company’s Trainium AI chip line, noting that Trainium2 is already generating multi‑billion‑dollar revenue with over a million chips in production and more than 100,000 customers. The chip’s price‑performance edge has attracted major partners such as Anthropic, which is using hundreds of thousands of chips for its Project Rainier. At AWS re:Invent, Amazon unveiled the next‑generation Trainium3, promising four‑times the speed and lower power usage, underscoring Amazon’s ambition to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI‑hardware market. Leia mais →

Amazon Web Services introduced a suite of new capabilities aimed at simplifying the creation of custom large language models for enterprise customers. At its re:Invent conference, AWS unveiled serverless model customization in SageMaker, offering both point‑and‑click and natural‑language‑driven workflows, and announced reinforcement fine‑tuning in Bedrock. The company also launched Nova Forge, a service that builds bespoke Nova models for a fixed annual fee. These moves signal AWS’s focus on frontier AI models and could help customers differentiate their AI solutions in a market dominated by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini. Leia mais →

Amazon announced a new service called AI Factories that lets large enterprises and governments run AWS AI workloads inside their own data centers. The offering combines Amazon’s cloud software stack with Nvidia hardware, allowing customers to choose between Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs or Amazon’s Trainium3 chips. AI Factories are positioned as a solution for data‑sovereignty concerns, giving organizations full control over data and hardware while still accessing AWS services such as Bedrock and SageMaker. Similar private‑cloud moves are also being pursued by Microsoft. Leia mais →

Amazon Web Services introduced three new AI agents—Kiro, Security Agent, and DevOps Agent—designed to operate autonomously for extended periods. Kiro, a coding specialist, learns a team’s workflow, follows spec‑driven development, and can persist context across sessions. Security Agent independently identifies and proposes fixes for code vulnerabilities, while DevOps Agent handles testing and performance validation. AWS CEO Matt Garman highlighted the agents’ ability to take on complex backlog tasks with minimal human oversight, marking a significant step toward AI‑driven software development. Leia mais →

Amazon Web Services announced a new generation of its Nova AI models—Nova 2 Lite, Nova 2 Pro, Nova 2 Sonic and Nova 2 Omni—alongside a Nova Forge service that lets enterprises build customized versions of the models. The launch, revealed at the AWS re:Invent keynote, expands Nova’s capabilities across text, image, video and speech tasks and offers a pathway for companies to train the models on proprietary data for a subscription fee. Leia mais →

Amazon Web Services unveiled a trio of upgrades to its Bedrock AgentCore platform at the re:Invent conference. The new Policy tool lets developers set natural‑language boundaries for AI agents, including data‑access limits and transaction caps, while integrating with the AgentCore Gateway to enforce those rules. A pre‑built Evaluations suite offers 13 metrics to monitor correctness, safety and tool‑selection accuracy. Finally, AgentCore Memory gives agents a persistent log of user preferences, enabling more personalized interactions. Vice‑president David Richardson emphasized that these layers together aim to make enterprise AI agents safer, more controllable, and more useful over time. Leia mais →

Microsoft and NVIDIA have announced a joint investment of up to $15 billion to support Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI models. Microsoft will invest up to $10 billion while NVIDIA contributes up to $5 billion. In return, Anthropic will purchase $30 billion in Azure cloud capacity and may add up to one gigawatt of additional compute. The partnership also includes integration of Claude models into Microsoft Foundry, and collaboration with NVIDIA to optimize Anthropic’s models for NVIDIA hardware and future architectures. The deal arrives as Microsoft loosens its exclusivity with OpenAI and follows recent large cloud contracts with Amazon. Leia mais →

Amazon is extending its next‑generation Alexa+ platform to BMW vehicles, allowing the automaker to enhance its Intelligent Personal Assistant with more natural, conversational capabilities. The integration builds on the existing Alexa Custom Assistant framework that BMW already uses, and will tap into a range of large language models to handle complex driver requests. The rollout will begin with select BMW models, though specific timing and model details have not been disclosed. Leia mais →

OpenAI announced a multi‑year agreement with Amazon to purchase $38 billion in cloud computing services. The partnership will see the company shift immediately to Amazon Web Services, with full capacity expected by the end of 2026 and the option to expand beyond 2027. The deal follows OpenAI’s recent restructuring that removed the need for Microsoft’s approval on such purchases and aligns with its broader plan to spend over $1 trillion on computing power in the next decade. Analysts note the massive spending may signal an emerging AI investment bubble. Leia mais →

OpenAI announced a multi‑year cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services valued at $38 billion, ending its exclusive reliance on Microsoft’s Azure. The agreement grants AWS access to thousands of NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs for training and inference of OpenAI’s next‑generation models, with deployment slated for completion by the end of 2026 and options to extend into 2027. The move follows OpenAI’s recent corporate restructuring, which gave it the freedom to negotiate with competitors, and is expected to support millions of ChatGPT users while complementing OpenAI’s existing $12 billion annual revenue stream and its $250 billion Azure commitment. Leia mais →

AI startup Mem0 has raised $24 million in a funding round led by Basis Set Ventures, with participation from Peak XV, Y Combinator, and other investors. The company offers a model‑agnostic memory framework that lets developers store, retrieve, and evolve user data across large language models and applications. Mem0’s open‑source API has garnered over 41,000 GitHub stars and more than 13 million Python package downloads, while its cloud service serves over 80,000 developers and processes hundreds of millions of API calls. The startup positions itself as a neutral, interoperable memory layer for the growing AI ecosystem. Leia mais →

Amazon disclosed plans to eliminate 14,000 corporate positions as part of a broader effort to streamline operations and invest more heavily in artificial intelligence. Senior vice president Beth Galetti emphasized the need for a leaner structure to move quickly in a rapidly changing market, while CEO Andy Jassy highlighted the transformative impact of generative AI on the workforce. The company will offer internal transfer opportunities, severance, and outplacement services to affected employees. The moves come amid significant spending on tech infrastructure and a strong performance by Amazon Web Services. Leia mais →

Amazon disclosed a reduction of roughly 14,000 corporate positions, citing the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence as a primary driver. The move follows earlier speculation that up to 30,000 jobs could be eliminated. Affected areas include video games, logistics, payments, and cloud computing, while prior cuts have touched Prime Video, Amazon Web Services, and newly unionized warehouse staff. Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology Beth Galetti emphasized the need for a leaner structure to keep pace with AI advancements, describing the technology as the most transformative since the Internet. Leia mais →

A severe outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted a broad swath of internet services on a crisp October morning. The incident stemmed from a DNS resolution problem affecting the DynamoDB API in the US‑East‑1 region, leading to increased error rates and latency across multiple AWS services. Popular platforms such as Venmo, Snapchat, Canva, Fortnite, Alexa, Lyft, Reddit, Disney+, and many others experienced partial or complete outages. AWS identified the issue, applied mitigations, and eventually restored most services, though new EC2 instance launches remained rate‑limited for some time. The outage highlighted the extensive reliance on AWS infrastructure across the digital ecosystem. Leia mais →

A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services caused significant disruptions across a variety of popular applications and platforms that rely on the cloud provider. The incident affected services ranging from Amazon's own Alexa to third‑party apps such as Venmo, Snapchat, and Fortnite. AWS identified a DNS resolution issue affecting its DynamoDB API, which led to increased error rates and latency in the US‑East‑1 region. The company announced that the underlying problem had been mitigated, but some services continued to experience elevated errors, particularly with new EC2 instance launches. The outage highlighted the reliance of many internet services on a single cloud infrastructure and sparked concerns about resilience and redundancy. Leia mais →

Amazon Web Services has launched Quick Suite, a comprehensive platform that lets businesses build and use AI agents to access data, automate tasks, and generate insights across internal repositories and third‑party applications. The service connects to internal wikis, AWS services like S3 and Redshift, and more than 1,000 external apps via the MCP standard. Initially available in four AWS regions, Quick Suite includes built‑in connectors for popular data platforms, custom integration options, and a suite of tools for visual analytics, research, workflow automation, and complex multi‑system processes. Leia mais →

Amazon is actively courting police departments and other law‑enforcement agencies to adopt its cloud‑based artificial‑intelligence and surveillance services. Emails from the company's law‑enforcement and safety team show a concerted effort to capture a share of the burgeoning $11 billion police‑tech market. Amazon is positioning its Amazon Web Services platform as a hub for third‑party tools such as vehicle‑tracking systems, license‑plate readers, gun‑detection software and AI‑driven reporting solutions. Privacy advocates warn that the move could expand authoritarian surveillance capabilities and amplify existing concerns about AI accuracy and misuse. Leia mais →