Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

Australia sues Amazon over Prime Video ads, citing unfair contract terms
Australia sues Amazon over Prime Video ads, citing unfair contract terms

The ACCC alleges Amazon buried unfair terms in Prime contracts, then used them to add ads to Prime Video for more than a million subscribers without offering refunds. The complaint Australia’s consumer regulator filed against Amazon this week turns on …

Amazon seeks cheaper AI alternatives as Anthropic shifts to token-based pricing
Amazon seeks cheaper AI alternatives as Anthropic shifts to token-based pricing

Amazon is looking for cheaper alternatives to Anthropic’s Claude models after a renegotiated contract will shift to token-based pricing that could substantially increase the company’s AI costs, according to The Information. The new pricing structure do…

AWS raises GPU prices 20% as the memory crunch bites
AWS raises GPU prices 20% as the memory crunch bites

Renting an AI chip is starting to feel like booking a hotel in a sold-out city. You pay to hold the room, and the rate keeps climbing. On AWS, it just climbed again. Amazon Web Services has raised prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by roughly 20%, s…

Amazon’s rapid-delivery push wipes $15bn off India’s Eternal and Swiggy
Amazon’s rapid-delivery push wipes $15bn off India’s Eternal and Swiggy

Amazon spent years circling India’s quick-commerce market without committing to it. Investors have now decided the circling is over, and they have repriced the incumbents accordingly. Shares in Eternal, the parent of grocery-delivery leader Blinkit, an…

A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer
A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer

A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer allowed a malicious code repository to silently execute commands on a developer’s machine and steal their AWS credentials. Wiz Research discovered the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-12957, and reported it …

It’s the last day of Prime Day — here are over 140 great deals to choose from
It’s the last day of Prime Day — here are over 140 great deals to choose from

We’ve arrived at the final day of Prime Day, which at this point should probably be called “Prime Week.” We’ve found discounts on all manner of gadgets, including TVs, smart home tech, chargers, headphones, and more. Some of the best deals have started selling out at some retailers, so if you’ve been craving a popular […]

OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US
OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, led by Gina Raimondo, has already raised more than $500m. The biggest names in AI agree on at least one thing. The technol…

Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules
Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules

The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. The wording matters more than it loo…

Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment

Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.