Documents: Amazon is working on “Project Houdini”, which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors
And It's Not Because of AI or Cost Cutting Surbhi Jain / Benzinga : Andy Jassy Is Turning Amazon Into The 'World's Largest Startup' — One Layer At A Time Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Amazon's CEO s...
Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated
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Internal email: Amazon forms a new group focused on agentic AI, led by AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, who will report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman
Good morning. I'm delighted to announce the first wave … Arundhati Sarkar / Seeking Alpha : Amazon's AWS reportedly forms new team focused on agentic AI Theo Wayt / The Information : Amazon Web Servi...
Filing: Amazon estimated the fair value of its stake in Anthropic at $14B at the end of December 2024, after agreeing to invest $8B in Anthropic so far
Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Bluesky: @businessinsider.com Bluesky: @businessinsider.com : Amazon initially backed Anthropic in 2023. The move has reaped huge rewards for the cloud giant.
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
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Internal doc: Amazon held talks on handling tasks on the LLM-powered Alexa with Uber, Ticketmaster, Vagaro, OpenTable, Grubhub, Instacart, Fodors, and Thumbtack
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Sources and documents detail headwinds slowing Amazon's data center buildout: electricity and water supply issues, zoning problems, labor shortages, and more
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Document: Microsoft added 500+ megawatts of data center capacity since July 2023 and topped five gigawatts of total capacity in the H1 of its latest fiscal year
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Amazon confirms Gregg Zehr, who led the Lab126 R&D unit, and Tom Taylor, SVP for Alexa, are retiring after over a decade, the latest to depart under Andy Jassy
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