AWS Buying DuckLabs Brings DuckDB Closer To The Cloud Data Wars
AWS is acquiring DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, while the open-source database remains under the DuckDB Foundation.
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Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk As Human Data Work Enters The AI Age
Amazon Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026, ending a 21-year crowdsourcing service that helped shape human-in-the-loop AI ...
Amazon Device Price Hikes Show The AI Memory Squeeze Is Reaching Homes
Amazon has raised prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle and eero devices, showing how AI-driven memory demand is beginning to ...
Amazon Leo Wants 5,105 Satellites To Take Phone Coverage Beyond Cell Towers
Amazon Leo has proposed a 5,105-satellite direct-to-device network that could bring voice, messaging and data services to phones from space.
Amazon AWS Growth Surges As AI Demand Gives Spending A Better Answer
Amazon reported $200.6 billion in Q2 revenue as AWS grew 37 percent, giving investors a stronger answer on AI cloud ...
Zoox Clears US Hurdle To Charge For Driverless Robotaxi Rides
Amazon-owned Zoox has cleared a key US hurdle to charge passengers for driverless robotaxi rides using its purpose-built vehicles.
Recursive Superintelligence Signs $410M AWS Compute Deal
Recursive Superintelligence signed a $410 million AWS compute deal, showing how frontier AI startups are turning funding into cloud capacity.
Amazon Raised Anthropic AI Security Concerns Before US Crackdown on Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government’s sudden crackdown on Anthropic’s most powerful AI models already looked like a turning point for frontier AI. ...
Amazon Adds AI-Powered Custom Merch Design
Redbubble, Bonfire, Spring, Fourthwall, and other online retailers are facing a greater challenge as Amazon unveiled a new technology earlier ...
The New Amazon Alexa+ Can Now Generate Podcast Episodes
The ability to create podcast episodes on demand was the most recent enhancement to Alexa+, which Amazon revealed earlier today, ...