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AWS commits $100 million to expand health services worldwide
AWS is committing $100 million over five years in AI, agentic services, and cloud infrastructure to organizations working to close health gaps affecting underserved…
Hugging Face’s HOPE Method Prunes MoE Experts With Their Partners in Mind
Hugging Face has detailed HOPE, a pruning method for mixture-of-experts language models that considers how experts cooperate before removing them. The company says the…
Amazon Haul launches $1 flash deals and $0.11 offers
Amazon Haul’s early Haul-iday deals event runs from November 9, 14, with $1 flash deals throughout the week and exclusive $0.11 offers on November 10, 11. The promotion…
Amazon lets select US customers shop with Alexa by text
Amazon is rolling out texting access to Alexa for Shopping, allowing a small group of invited U.S. customers to search for products, build carts, complete purchases and…
Hamed Karimi wins award for influential machine learning theory paper
Amazon senior applied scientist Hamed Karimi and his coauthors have won the 2026 ECML PKDD Test-of-Time Award for a paper that clarified why widely used machine learning…
Amazon brings $0 Uber Eats delivery to Prime members
Amazon has added Uber Eats restaurant delivery to Prime, giving members $0 Delivery Fee on orders of $25 or more placed through Amazon.com or the Amazon Shopping app.…
Amazon opens Shop Direct Merchant Workspace to web stores
Amazon has launched the Shop Direct Merchant Workspace, a free self-service portal that lets eligible merchants connect their online stores with Amazon and Alexa for…
Amazon's custom chips business grows triple digits as Trainium demand surges
Amazon's chips business continues to grow at triple-digit percentages year over year, CEO Andy Jassy said on the company's third quarter earnings call. Revenue…
Amazon CEO Jassy: Stores Growing Fast, Units Up Nearly 15% This Year
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told investors on the company's third quarter earnings call that some observers are underestimating the progress of Amazon Stores. According to…
AWS Growth Hits 39.3%, Its Fastest Pace in Nearly Five Years, Says Jassy
AWS grew 39.3% year over year in the third quarter, accelerating for the sixth straight quarter and marking its fastest growth in nearly five years, according to Amazon…
Monks Hires Two North America Media Chiefs and Brings Back Two Partnership Leaders
Monks, the digital-first operating brand of S4Capital plc, has appointed two senior vice presidents in North America and brought back two leaders to run platform…
Alexa for Shopping adds 100+ actions for lists, subscriptions and billing
Amazon has added more than 100 new capabilities to Alexa for Shopping, letting customers manage lists, registries, Subscribe & Save, payments, memberships and other…
Amazon's Trainium chip powers the AI behind Prime 360 NBA highlights
Amazon says its custom Trainium AI chip helps run the diffusion models behind Prime 360, a technology that creates cinematic highlights from real game footage during…
BusinessClip buys Pulpos and adds ex-Toast CTO Debra Chrapaty to its board
Clip, which describes itself as Mexico's premier financial ecosystem, has acquired Pulpos, a cloud-based business management system powered by AI, and appointed Debra…
Amazon launches Alexa Photo Frame with Alexa+ and Amazon Photos sync
Amazon has introduced the Alexa Photo Frame, a 10-inch touchscreen photo frame that, according to the company, is the first of its kind with Alexa built in. It syncs…
Amazon launches Echo Show 16 with Fire TV built in and a 16-inch display
Amazon has introduced the Echo Show 16, a redesigned smart display with a 16-inch full high-definition screen, the full Fire TV experience and the latest version of…
Amazon's new Echo Dot adds smart home hub, Echo Studio gets a camera
Amazon has introduced a new Echo Dot with a built-in smart home hub and eero Wi-Fi extender, along with an all-new Echo Studio with Home Camera that gives Alexa+ visual…
Amazon launches Echo Time, a camera-free Alexa+ alarm clock for the nightstand
Amazon has introduced Echo Time, a smart alarm clock powered by Alexa+ and built for the bedroom, with a 3.2-inch circular touchscreen and no camera. According to…
Amazon launches Alexa Home Map, a 3D view to see and control your home
Amazon has introduced Alexa Home Map, an interactive 3D map of a home and its property that shows connected devices where they sit and lets users control core functions…
Amazon tells its engineers AI will be central to software work, but outcomes still matter most
Amazon's engineering leadership has updated the role guideline for its software development engineers (SDEs), telling them to learn and apply AI in daily work while…
Study: Spanish suppliers to AWS data centers report higher revenue and hiring
Spanish companies that help build and operate Amazon Web Services data centers in Aragón report stronger revenue, hiring and growth prospects than similar firms that do…
Tomorrow.io Hires Amazon Veteran Jason Rizzo as Chief Revenue Officer
Weather intelligence company Tomorrow.io has appointed Jason Rizzo as Chief Revenue Officer, putting him in charge of its go-to-market organization. Rizzo joins from…
Amazon recaps Q3 2026: new Bedrock models, TorchNeuron, AWS Continuum and more
Ahead of its third-quarter earnings report on October 29, Amazon has published a roundup of its biggest announcements since the last results, led by new frontier models…
Audible Builds Controllable TTS to Give Audiobook Characters Distinct Voices
Audible's technology team has developed a controllable text-to-speech system that gives audiobook characters distinct, consistent voices, according to a post on Amazon…