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Amazon sees AI driving AWS revenue to 600 billion dollars

Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy said artificial intelligence could help Amazon Web Services reach 600 billion dollars in annual revenue within the next decade, significantly raising his earlier forecast, according to remarks reported by Reuters. Speaking at an internal company meeting, Jassy said......

Amazon to drastically reduce packages sent via U.S. Postal Service

Amazon.com Inc. is planning a major reduction in the number of packages it ships through the U.S. Postal Service, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal. The move, expected to cut postal shipments by at least two-thirds, could result in significant revenue losses for the Postal Service, which......

Amazon restores service after six hour shopping outage linked to software error

Amazon said it resolved a widespread service disruption on Thursday after a technical issue prevented tens of thousands of customers from completing purchases, viewing prices, or accessing their accounts for several hours. The outage began around 2 p.m. Eastern Time on March 5 and lasted roughly six......

Amazon cloud outage in UAE exposes Gulf infrastructure to Iran conflict

Amazon Web Services suffered a rare physical blow to its cloud infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates after unidentified objects struck one of its data centers, igniting a fire and forcing a prolonged shutdown as Iranian retaliatory attacks rattled the Gulf. The incident unfolded on March 1 in the......

Amazon and global investors pour $110 billion into OpenAI

OpenAI has secured a record breaking 110 billion dollars in new funding, more than doubling the size of its previous capital raise and cementing its position at the center of the artificial intelligence race. The deal values the ChatGPT maker at 730 billion dollars before the new money, placing it among......

Amazon outage linked to AI coding tool sparks debate over blame and safeguards

Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour disruption in mid-December after its internal AI coding assistant, known as Kiro, executed changes on a live, customer-facing system that resulted in the environment being deleted and recreated, temporarily knocking a cost-analysis service offline in one of the......

Amazon rainforest turned carbon source during 2023 drought

The Amazon rainforest shifted from absorbing carbon to releasing it during the extreme drought of 2023, emitting millions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere instead of storing it, according to new research from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. The study, published in AGU Advances,......

Ariane 64 set for maiden launch from Europe’s spaceport

Europe’s most powerful rocket is preparing for its first flight. The Ariane 64 launcher is scheduled to lift off on Thursday from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, marking the debut of the four-booster version of Ariane 6. The mission will carry 32 satellites for Amazon’s low......

Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs amid intensifying AI competition

Amazon has announced plans to lay off 16,000 employees, marking its second major round of workforce reductions within three months. The move aims to streamline operations and boost agility as the company vies for dominance in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence landscape. In a recent company......