Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget
Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget

Summary: Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 ARM CPU cores in AWS data centres for agentic AI workloads. The chips are general-purpose processors, not AI accelerators, handling the CPU-int…

X-Energy’s failed $1 billion SPAC became a $1 billion IPO. The reactor did not change. The market did.
X-Energy’s failed $1 billion SPAC became a $1 billion IPO. The reactor did not change. The market did.

In short: X-Energy raised $1.02 billion in the largest nuclear IPO on record, pricing at $23 (21% above range) on the Nasdaq, with shares surging 31% on opening to imply a $12 billion market cap. The offering was 15x oversubscribed. The same company fa…

Nuclear startup X-energy raises $1B in data center-driven IPO

Amazon-backed X-energy was able to raise around 20% more money in its IPO as demand for nuclear power surges.

In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs

Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon’s homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.

Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-Energy raises $1.02 billion in IPO
Amazon-backed nuclear startup X-Energy raises $1.02 billion in IPO

X-Energy sold 44.3 million Class A shares at $23 each, above the $16–$19 marketed range, and began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker XE on 24 April. The company has $1.8 billion in prior private capital, a $500 million Amazon-led Series C-1, and a bin…

Amazon Music partners with Bandsintown for concert listings

Users will be able to see live events of an artist on their Amazon Music profile

Amazon taps Einride to scale electric semi truck fleet capacity, NOW
Amazon taps Einride to scale electric semi truck fleet capacity, NOW

In a bid to ramp up its heavy-duty fleet in a hurry, Amazon has tapped zero-emissions logistics firm Einride to deploy 75 fully electric semi trucks across five US locations.

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Amazon taps Sweden’s Einride for its electric big rigs

The agreement comes just as Einride is finalizing a merger with blank-check company Legato Merger Corp. to go public.

Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: The luxury ride to digital note-taking

At $630, this new breed of Kindle is expensive, but its sleek build, color panel, and paper-like display surface are the core reasons to buy it, if you can stick with the basics.

Jeff Bezos’ physical AI lab is close to raising $10 billion at a $38 billion valuation
Jeff Bezos’ physical AI lab is close to raising $10 billion at a $38 billion valuation

Project Prometheus, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding, is developing AI systems that understand the physical world, targeting engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, and drug discovery. The round has not yet closed…