AWS wants to train 2 million people as AI specialists
AWS wants to train 2 million people as AI specialists by 2025. To this end, Amazon has presented the free AI Ready training program. The program targets people without any programming experience, as well as developers.
With the AI Ready program, AWS wants to ensure that more people have AI skill... Read more
“Amazon driving force behind international anti-Microsoft campaign”
Amazon is reportedly leading lobbying groups in Europe and the United States that are curbing Microsoft's cloud ambitions. Bloomberg sources claim that the three groups are making decisions that strongly favour AWS.
Bloomberg bases this conclusion on anonymous sources, tax returns and other docu... Read more
Amazon invests in its own Olympus LLM
Amazon is investing millions of dollars in training its own LLM, called Olympus, according to Reuters. This model should become a serious competitor to Google and OpenAI.
According to sources of Reuters, Amazon is training Olympus, a model that has 2 trillion parameters. This would make the mode... Read more
“Amazon manipulated prices with secret algorithm”
The FTC's recent competition case against Amazon has produced an unexpected by-product. The tech giant allegedly used a secret algorithm, Project Nessie, to artificially inflate its prices.
A recent copy of court documents on the FTC's antitrust case against Amazon reveals more information about... Read more
AWS offers GPU power for short AI workloads
AWS is introducing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. The new service gives enterprises easy access to cloud-based GPU compute power for short AI workloads.
Companies seeking compute power for short AI workloads can now get it from AWS with Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. This, according to A... Read more
After 4 billion from AWS, Google invests 2 billion in Anthropic
AI developer Anthropic is said to have acquired $2 billion in investment money from Google. Combined with Amazon's earlier investment, Anthropic is gaining prestige in the AI field.
Anthropic is reportedly receiving money from Google for the second time this year. Earlier this year, the investm... Read more
Google Search executive concerned about Amazon and TikTok
Google Search executive Prabhakar Raghava is concerned about competition from Amazon and TikTok. The top executive said this during his testimony in the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) case against the tech giant.
The Google Search executive says he is awake at night because of competition from... Read more
Microsoft said to bring in Amazon as cloud tool customer for $1B
Microsoft is reportedly on the verge of signing Amazon as a customer for its Microsoft 365 productivity suite. The deal would involve more than a billion dollars (945 million euros).
This is what Business Insider reports based on internal documents and sources. The Microsoft 365 contract with Am... Read more
Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and Amazon report heaviest DDoS attacks ever
Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and Amazon all suffered DDoS Layer 7 attacks in the past month. The attacks were enormously powerful due to a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol.
Hackers managed to exploit a vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol to start DDoS attacks. Cloudflare, Google,... Read more
Windows 11 product manager Panos Panay employed by Amazon -update
Update, 10:53, 29/9, Laura Herijgers: Amazon confirms the hiring of Panos Panay. He will be responsible for leading the Devices & Services department.
Panos Panay will join Amazon at the end of October. The Amazon blog sharing the news further revealed that Dave Limp will guide during Panay... Read more