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13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon’s own AI tools
A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, . This happened in December after engineers...
Amazon’s latest round of layoffs will affect 16,000 workers
Amazon has confirmed that it’s letting go of 16,000 workers and employees across its organization. In an announcement by company SVP Beth Galetti, she explained that Amazon was...
Amazon in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI and supply its Trainium chips
Amazon is in discussions with OpenAI to invest $10 billion in the company while supplying more of its AI chips and cloud computing services, according to The Financial...
OpenAI signs $38 billion cloud contract with Amazon
When OpenAI announced last week the end of its drawn-out corporate restructuring, one of the freedoms the company had managed to negotiate for itself was the ability to...
Amazon cuts its workforce by 14,000 in further embrace of AI
Amazon has announced an approximately 14,000 person reduction in its corporate workforce. The news follows an earlier report from Reuters that up to 30,000 people could be let...
The Morning After: Amazon broke the internet (for a bit)
A decent-sized chunk of the internet stopped working after a fairly massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. This included Venmo, Snapchat, Canva and Fortnite — even Amazon’s own...
