… 6/3/26 6:05 pm ET: This story was updated with comments made by a third Amazon employee at a second city hearing. 6/3/26 7:55 pm ET: This story was updated with comment from Amazon.
… Amazon then expanded the technology to data centers in Germany and Spain. …
… It’s one of three new animated shows greenlit through the GenAI Creators’ Fund, a joint initiative of Amazon Web Services and Amazon MGM Studios. “This is an assault on artists everywhere,” Brantz declared in her post. …
… Billions of dollars in US technology and infrastructure are tied up in the Gulf, where American tech giants have bet big on the region becoming the next hub for AI development. …
… Wafer is working with companies including AMD and Amazon to help optimize software to run efficiently on their hardware. …
… Last month, Anthropic committed “more than $100 billion over the next ten years to Amazon technologies.” According to the Information report, contracts with Anthropic and OpenAI now account for “more than half of the $2 trillion in backlogs at major cloud providers” like Amazon, Microsoft, and Goog… …
… Technology companies operating in the region have already begun adjusting their operations. …
… Amazon disputed the finding. Adam Montgomery, a company spokesperson, says that Amazon does not sell customer personal information, and therefore customers are opted out by default. …
… Ramasamy rejected that possibility. “Anthropic does not maintain any back door or remote ‘kill switch,’” he wrote. “Anthropic personnel cannot, for example, log into a DoW system to modify or disable the models during an operation; the technology simply does not function that way.” He went on to sa… …
… Over the past few months, OpenAI committed to spend $138 billion on Amazon cloud computing services, and Amazon agreed to invest $15 billion to $50 billion in OpenAI. …