… When reached by WIRED, an Amazon spokesperson said the company doesn't comment on rumors and speculation. Amazon famously launched the Fire Phone in 2014, but it was discontinued shortly after due to a limited app ecosystem and terrible sales. …
“Local governments, in collaboration with community stakeholders, should be setting the terms for data center buildout,” Amazon senior software engineer Liesl Wigand said at a city hearing. “Let’s not let Big Tech burn Seattle to win the AI race.” The comments by Wigand and two other Amazon softwar… …
… 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… …
… Iranian drones struck two Amazon Web Services data centers and damaged another in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on March 1, in the first publicly confirmed attack on American-owned hyperscale cloud infrastructure. …
… Last week, Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting services and exposing the vulnerability of physical tech infrastructure in the region. …
… A number of high-end chips now offer similar raw floating point performance—a key industry benchmark of a chip’s ability to perform simple calculations—to Nvidia’s best silicon. “The best AMD hardware, the best Amazon Trainium hardware, the best Google TPUs, give you the same theoretical flops to N… …
… But, again: This adds a certain amount of engineering complexity, as well as cost. So Random Amazon, meanwhile, was searching for the “holy grail,” says Giacomo Bernardi, who is one of the lead authors on the new paper, along with Amazon Scholars Ratul Mahajan and Seshadhri Comandur. …
… Amazon spokesperson Doron Aronson also declined to comment. Intel said it does not comment on specific customers. …
… OpenAI’s vice president of science and former chief product officer, Kevin Weil, also showed up on stage alongside Haas. “One of the most common things I hear inside of OpenAI: ‘I need more compute,’” Weil said. “It’s kind of the coin of the realm.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Amazon senior vice presi… …
… As for the Globalstar acquisition, Amazon says the transaction still isn’t closed, though it expects it to go through in 2027, barring any regulatory interference. “We're in the very early stages of the process,” Paul Flaningan, a representative in Amazon’s business and corporate development commun… …