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The AI assistant checks messages against Amazon's own send records to flag impersonation scams before customers act on them.

Some 360,000 customers a year ask Amazon whether a message is real; the AI checks it against every message Amazon has ever sent.

The new Alexa for Shopping feature sends personalized alerts on product launches, tour dates and book releases — a shift from reactive to anticipatory commerce.

Five months after committing to 1M Nvidia GPUs, AWS is adding 2M more Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra chips for 2027 and 2028.

Every current Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Cube, and Alexa+-enabled smart TV in the US gets the AI assistant auto-upgraded — no app, no sign-up, no Prime.

A tracker planted by 404 Media traced a rare book to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas, where spines are cut and pages scanned.

A new setting lets creators disable AI training on their streams, but Twitch says the default had to stay on or 'no one would participate.'

Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are building 17-plus gigawatts of gas plants for AI data centers just as prices could triple.

Streams, VODs, clips, and chats are fair game for Amazon's generative models by default — creators have to flip a toggle to say no.

GW Ranch, a 7.65-gigawatt gas plant in Pecos County built to feed one Amazon site, holds a permit exceeding the largest US coal plant.

Investors rewarded Amazon's AI spending with a 10% pop, while Meta fell 8% — the market is picking cloud hosts over everyone else in the stack.

The stealth-exit lab founded by Richard Socher is spending most of its $650M raise on compute, betting on self-improving systems over headcount.

The upgraded assistant now routes requests across appliances from Bosch, Whirlpool, iRobot and Yale, with Canva, Lyft and Priceline joining via MCP.

The Nova model group loses staff even as Amazon's 2026 capex jumps more than 50% and the company raises at least $25B in debt.

A 44-member commission, humanoid robots, and a stage-storming protest defined Geneva's 106,000-square-meter showcase.

The company's 2026 sustainability report says emissions hit 34M metric tons and warns sustainability solutions can't keep pace with AI demand.

The crowdsourcing platform that once trained early AI models is now being trained by them — and Amazon has stopped taking new signups.

MGM Studios shelved Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman film 'Artificial' near completion, days after Google DeepMind's $75M A24 deal.

The third India commitment in three years brings Amazon's total to $48B, funding AWS data center expansion in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

The generative-AI assistant heads to a market of 600M Hindi speakers, with code-mixed Hindi-English handling as the technical test.

The export-control order pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, but past clashes drove Claude downloads up — and rivals are watching.

Amazon's AI chip business is on a $50B run rate. Selling to third parties would put it in direct contact with Nvidia's $326B engine.

Three engineers from Amazon Employees for Climate Justice filed a civil rights complaint after backing Seattle's one-year data center moratorium.

A jailbreak warning from Amazon researchers triggered emergency export controls, taking Anthropic's newest public model offline within hours.

The world model startup raised $310M in a Series B led by Natural Capital and will move workloads onto AWS Trainium chips.
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