This week brought us a tale of two very different AWS stories: one about the government finally moving at "the speed of business" (their words, not mine), and another about Amazon burning through cash faster than a GPU cluster training foundation models. Let's start with the
Verizon just dropped $2 billion on an AWS infrastructure deal, and if you squint, you can see the future of AI infrastructure taking shape. It's not sexy, but fiber optic cables and data center connectivity are now the hot commodity everyone's chasing. Verizon's CEO
Well, this week's AI headlines read like Amazon is simultaneously burning cash, building an empire, and maybe recording your every word. AWS CFO John Felton joked that the company's AI infrastructure push has taken Amazon "free cash flow negative" (congrats!), but he insists the
AWS just spent the week reminding everyone that giving AI agents free rein is basically handing your toddler the car keys and hoping for the best. Between researchers at Zenity Labs and Palo Alto Networks finding ways to hijack AWS AI agents through single prompts and steal cloud credentials, AWS
AWS just made a very loud statement this week: it's willing to spend a quarter trillion dollars on AI infrastructure, but it really needs you to stop complaining about the data centers that spend depends on. Matt Garman's surprisingly blunt post warned that local moratoriums could
Amazon spent the week trying to have it both ways on AI, and honestly, the balancing act is getting interesting. On one hand, the company told Reuters it's all about "rigorous testing and strong safeguards" when releasing AI models (you know, the responsible approach), but stopped
Amazon is currently locked in a turf war over who gets to control the shopping cart when AI agents come knocking. Meta's new Muse assistant tried to browse Amazon.com, compare strollers, and place orders without ever asking permission or even identifying itself, prompting Amazon to slam the
AWS spent last week playing relationship counselor between your AI agents and your actual work life. The big bet? That you're tired of babysitting chatbots like an anxious parent watching their kid's first soccer game. AWS just open sourced Pizza Bot, a tool that treats agent
Amazon's AWS just turned a few industry heads by inking a multi-generation silicon deal with Qualcomm, complete with $4 billion in stock warrants and a roadmap that stretches into 2028 and beyond. This isn't just another procurement win for Qualcomm. It's a public
This week brought some fascinating infrastructure moves that signal where the AI cloud wars are headed next. AWS announced plans to launch a region in Saudi Arabia by December 2026, with major telecom players stc Group and ZainTECH already lining up partnerships to bring cloud and AI services to the
Well, here's an unexpected plot twist: Amazon, the company that quite literally built its empire on selling books, is now buying rare books in bulk, tearing off their spines, and scanning them for AI training data before destroying them. A 404 Media investigation used an AirTag hidden in
Well, that escalated quickly. One minute AWS is helping Novo Nordisk shave 15 weeks off clinical documentation workflows, and the next we're reading about a 7.65-gigawatt natural gas plant in Texas that could become America's single largest CO₂ emitter. Welcome to the contradictions of