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Amazon's Alexa for Shopping now tells customers if that Amazon message is a scam
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Amazon's Alexa for Shopping now tells customers if that Amazon message is a scam

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Amazon's Alexa adds 'Update Me When' to nudge shoppers before they ask
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Amazon's Alexa adds 'Update Me When' to nudge shoppers before they ask

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Amazon triples Nvidia GPU order for AWS, adding 2M Blackwell and Rubin chips

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Amazon drops the $19.99 fee for Alexa+ on Fire TV, opens it to non-Prime users
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Amazon drops the $19.99 fee for Alexa+ on Fire TV, opens it to non-Prime users

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.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Amazon is cutting up rare books to feed its AI models
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Amazon is cutting up rare books to feed its AI models

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.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Twitch quietly opts streamers into training Amazon's AI, adds an off switch
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Twitch quietly opts streamers into training Amazon's AI, adds an off switch

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.'

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Hyperscalers face natural gas price shock as Noreva forecasts $10 BTU hubs

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Twitch lets streamers opt out of Amazon AI training, two years after it started
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Twitch lets streamers opt out of Amazon AI training, two years after it started

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Amazon's Texas data center power plant permitted for 33M tons of CO2
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Amazon's Texas data center power plant permitted for 33M tons of CO2

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.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Amazon lifts 2026 capex to $220B as AWS revenue jumps 37% to $42B
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Amazon lifts 2026 capex to $220B as AWS revenue jumps 37% to $42B

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.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M AWS compute deal, plans October product launch
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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M AWS compute deal, plans October product launch

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Amazon expands Alexa Plus with MCP support and new smart-home partners
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Amazon expands Alexa Plus with MCP support and new smart-home partners

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Amazon cuts jobs in AGI unit as it pours $200B into AI buildout
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Amazon cuts jobs in AGI unit as it pours $200B into AI buildout

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.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
UN's AI for Good summit stages 10th edition amid governance gap
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UN's AI for Good summit stages 10th edition amid governance gap

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

Microsoft's carbon emissions rose 25% in 2025 as AI data centers expanded

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Amazon shuts Mechanical Turk to new customers after 21 years
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Amazon shuts Mechanical Turk to new customers after 21 years

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Amazon MGM drops $40M OpenAI biopic as tech-Hollywood ties tighten

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Amazon commits $13B more to India AI and cloud through 2030
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Amazon commits $13B more to India AI and cloud through 2030

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Amazon opens Alexa+ beta in India with Hindi support
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Amazon opens Alexa+ beta in India with Hindi support

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic's Trump-administration crackdown is turning into a marketing tailwind

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
AWS opens talks to sell Trainium chips to outside buyers, targeting Nvidia
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AWS opens talks to sell Trainium chips to outside buyers, targeting Nvidia

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.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Amazon employees say HR threatened termination over Seattle data center testimony
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Amazon employees say HR threatened termination over Seattle data center testimony

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic pulls Claude Fable 5 after Trump administration 90-minute ultimatum

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

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Odyssey hits $1.45B valuation as Amazon, AMD bet on world models
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Odyssey hits $1.45B valuation as Amazon, AMD bet on world models

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

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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