Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Amazon.
Amazon's top executives allegedly deleted Signal messages between 2019 and 2022 while a competition investigation was ongoing. The US regulator FTC has filed a complaint in a US court. Between April 2019 and May 2022, founder Jeff Bezos, current CEO Andy Jassy, top lawyer David Zapolsky, former ... Read more
22 hours ago
AWS is laying off hundreds of employees active in sales, marketing and services. It says the round of layoffs is to streamline its operations, but experts argue that a disappointing growth figure relative to competitors is the real motive. SVP Matt Garman argues that AWS does not make such decis... Read more
23 days ago
VFX artists can now more easily run their workloads within AWS. The managed service Amazon Deadline Cloud is specifically designed to run rendering pipelines for large amounts of graphics and digital visual effects. High-quality visual effects consume a lot of processing power and therefore incu... Read more
24 days ago
AI start-up Anthropic is now considered a formidable competitor to ChatGPT maker OpenAI. However, it needs huge investments to stay competitive. Amazon is once again stepping in with the equivalent of 2.55 billion euros, as it had promised to do late last year. The amount brings Amazon's total i... Read more
1 month ago
Anthropic is throwing a new version of Claude into the fray against OpenAI's GPT-4. Claude 3 outperforms GPT-4, according to testing by the company. That makes Claude 3 the second LLM to outperform GPT-4. Google already beat the model with Gemini Ultra, but Anthropic says Claude 3 also outperforms ... Read more
2 months ago
Amazon researchers recently published details of a new text-to-speech model called Base TTS. This model is said to make words sound more natural than previous neural networks. The paper shows that the new Base TTS model is the largest neural network to date in the category of text-to-speech mode... Read more
2 months ago
Meta and ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, discovered a gap in the fee imposed by the EU Big Tech for the DSA. X, Amazon and Snapchat would contribute virtually nothing as a result, even though they are part of wat the EU sees as Big Tech. Meta and ByteDance will challenge the supervisory f... Read more
3 months ago
From now on, Amazon servers will last a year longer. From now on, hardware will only be replaced after six years, a move that will save the company nearly a billion dollars per quarter. Based on its research, Amazon found that it could stretch the useful life of its servers by a year. It's the s... Read more
3 months ago
The integration brings the Buy with Prime button to e-commerce environments using the Commerce Cloud. Web stores can thus offer visitors the ability to purchase products directly through Amazon Prime. The integration also offers new features. For example, visitors to e-commerce stores can search... Read more
4 months ago
Amazon will start showing ads on its streaming platform Prime Video in select regions in late January. Customers of the video streaming service in the US, Canada, Germany and the UK will see ads starting Jan. 29, 2024. Later in 2024, the ads will be introduced in France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and... Read more
4 months ago
