Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts
Shake-up follows fears tech giant missed early AI boom as Microsoft and Google challenge cloud business
Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts
Shake-up follows fears tech giant missed early AI boom as Microsoft and Google challenge cloud business
Memo: Amazon appeared to mistakenly alert some AWS staff about planned layoffs in an email invite to a January 28 “Project Dawn” meeting on company efficiency
- Some Amazon employees got a worrying calendar invitation on Tuesday. — The invitation discussed upcoming job cuts and …
Amazon's AGI team lead, Rohit Prasad, is leaving at the end of 2025; AWS SVP Peter DeSantis will lead a group combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing teams
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At an all-hands, AWS CEO Matt Garman criticized staff for slow product rollouts and demonstrated a new agentic AI product for internal testing called Quick
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An interview with GM SVP of Software and Services Engineering David Richardson on GM's new AI team, building factory “cobots”, or collaborative robots, and more
So far the team includes hires from Google, Meta, AWS and even a Pixar vet who is helping GM develop new factory ‘cobots’
Many SV startups are using AI to boost productivity in research, coding, and more, reducing reliance on VC money for hiring, fueling “tiny team” success stories
Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Bluesky: @aaronosaur.us . Mastodon: @jchyip@mastodon.online . X: @gjain , @bittingthembits , @stevelohr , and @tmroha...
Amazon plans to end support for its videoconferencing tool Chime on February 20, 2026; report: Amazon is adopting Zoom as its standard app for internal meetings
cc @quinnypig.com [embedded post] Emil Protalinski / @emilprotalinski : Amazon acquires Zoom in 3, 2, 1... [embedded post] Patrick / @itspatrickpl : Did not even know that this existed Mastodon: Harr...
A profile of AWS CEO Matt Garman, including his first few months on the job, what his stewardship means for the business, and his opportunities and challenges
It's true. I *can't* understand why he wouldn't take a selfie with me! — fortune.com/2024/12/19/a... Mastodon: Greg Linden / @glinden@sigmoid.social : @Techmeme It seems weird to me that this busin...
A profile of AWS CEO Matt Garman, including his first few months on the job, what his stewardship means for the business, and his opportunities and challenges
Matt Garman joined Amazon Web Services as an intern nearly two decades ago. But his appearance earlier this month … Bluesky: @quinnypig.com . X: @delrey . LinkedIn: Jason Del Rey Bluesky: Corey Quinn...