Oprah Winfrey’s video podcast, Book Club, and Favorite Things are headed to Amazon, according to reports from The New York Times and Variety. Starting in July, The Oprah Podcast will get new episodes twice per week, instead of once, debuting across Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Music, Audible, and Fire TV channels. The show will still […]
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Meta signed two significant deals this week that highlight the escalating infrastructure challenge facing AI companies: an agreement to use millions of AWS Graviton chips for AI workloads, and a capacity reservation with startup Overview Energy to receive up to one gigawatt of power beamed from satellites in space. Amazon announced the Graviton chip deal […]
This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon’s homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.
Anthropic secures 5 gigawatts of Amazon’s custom silicon as Claude demand soars.
Amazon is pouring up to another $25 billion into Anthropic. In return, the AI company has committed to spending more than $100 billion on AWS infrastructure over the next ten years. The deal is meant to ease Anthropic’s acute capacity crunch, …
Insider Brief: Neura Robotics and Amazon Web Services are partnering to develop AI-enabled robots that combine Neura’s platform with AWS’s cloud and AI infrastructure. According to the companies, the partnership looks to address a key problem in robotics development — limited real-world training data — by linking simulation, cloud infrastructure and operational environments to support […]
Anthropic announced Monday that Amazon has invested a further $5 billion in the company, bringing its total commitment to $13 billion. In return, Anthropic pledged to spend over $100 billion on AWS infrastructure over the next decade, securing up to 5 gigawatts of computing capacity built around Amazon’s Trainium chip series — including future generations not yet […]
Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It’s investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.