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Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return | TechCrunch

Amazon invests $5 billion in Anthropic, raising total investment to $13 billion, while Anthropic commits over $100 billion to AWS over ten years.

fromEngadget

Amazon will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic in a broad deal

Amazon invests $5 billion in Anthropic, with potential for $20 billion more, while Anthropic commits to $100 billion in AWS technologies over the next decade.

Amazon acquires Globalstar to expand satellite comms business | Computer Weekly

Amazon has acquired Globalstar to enhance its low Earth orbit satellite network and provide direct-to-device services.

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load

Amazon's chip business could generate ~$50 billion annually if sold independently, highlighting significant demand and growth potential.

fromwww.businessinsider.com

Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear

Amazon's Project Houdini aims to speed up data center construction by moving processes to factories, addressing AI demand and capacity constraints.

fromnews.bitcoin.com

3 hours ago

Amazon Invests $5 Billion More in Anthropic, Secures 10-Year AWS Deal Worth $100 Billion

Amazon invested $5 billion in Anthropic, raising total investment to $13 billion, with a $100 billion commitment to AWS over 10 years for Claude model training.

Venture

fromTechCrunch

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return | TechCrunch

Amazon invests $5 billion in Anthropic, raising total investment to $13 billion, while Anthropic commits over $100 billion to AWS over ten years.

fromEngadget

Amazon will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic in a broad deal

Amazon invests $5 billion in Anthropic, with potential for $20 billion more, while Anthropic commits to $100 billion in AWS technologies over the next decade.

Amazon acquires Globalstar to expand satellite comms business | Computer Weekly

Amazon has acquired Globalstar to enhance its low Earth orbit satellite network and provide direct-to-device services.

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load

Amazon's chip business could generate ~$50 billion annually if sold independently, highlighting significant demand and growth potential.

fromwww.businessinsider.com

Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear

Amazon's Project Houdini aims to speed up data center construction by moving processes to factories, addressing AI demand and capacity constraints.

The AI Infrastructure Stack in 2026: Companies Building the Future of AI

AI infrastructure companies are transforming the deployment and scaling of artificial intelligence into full production systems with essential governance and observability.

fromFast Company

3 weeks ago

Artificial intelligence

The AI race won't be won in the cloud

Community consent and trust are essential for the success of AI infrastructure, which must be built responsibly and transparently.

fromMedium

9 hours ago

The AI Infrastructure Stack in 2026: Companies Building the Future of AI

AI infrastructure companies are transforming the deployment and scaling of artificial intelligence into full production systems with essential governance and observability.

fromFast Company

3 weeks ago

The AI race won't be won in the cloud

Community consent and trust are essential for the success of AI infrastructure, which must be built responsibly and transparently.

more#ai-infrastructure

#ai

fromTNW | Opinion

16 hours ago

Silicon Valley

Op-Ed: SaaS is not dead. You are just being sold the funeral

18 hours ago

London startup

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London

Tech industry

The dirty secret behind Big Tech's AI arms race: Massive hardware investments that are obsolete in 3 years | Fortune

2 days ago

AI's next act: how Salesforce is turning efficiency gains into revenue | Fortune

AI is beginning to show measurable results in cost reduction and revenue impact, but few companies have achieved significant outcomes yet.

Artificial intelligence

AI Compute Demand is Running Way Ahead of Supply - A Stock I'd Buy on That Signal

AI-driven power demand is outpacing supply, creating a significant energy shortfall that may impact top energy producers.

Silicon Valley

fromTNW | Opinion

16 hours ago

Op-Ed: SaaS is not dead. You are just being sold the funeral

AI will not replace human creativity and traditional software is not dead despite prevailing narratives.

London startup

18 hours ago

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London

UK AI datacenter capacity may shift from London due to power shortages and planning constraints, making other locations more appealing.

The dirty secret behind Big Tech's AI arms race: Massive hardware investments that are obsolete in 3 years | Fortune

Hyperscalers are rapidly replacing hardware, leading to losses despite increased AI capital expenditures, which may harm long-term profitability.

2 days ago

AI's next act: how Salesforce is turning efficiency gains into revenue | Fortune

AI is beginning to show measurable results in cost reduction and revenue impact, but few companies have achieved significant outcomes yet.

AI Compute Demand is Running Way Ahead of Supply - A Stock I'd Buy on That Signal

AI-driven power demand is outpacing supply, creating a significant energy shortfall that may impact top energy producers.

Cloudflare Introduces Project Think: A Durable Runtime for AI Agents

Cloudflare's Project Think introduces durable AI agents with a kernel-like runtime, enabling long-lived workloads and preserving execution progress during platform restarts.

fromTelecompetitor

15 hours ago

Business intelligence

Comcast Business unveils Innovation Lab for next-gen enterprise solutions

Comcast Business launched the Innovation Lab to co-develop and test enterprise solutions with customers and technology partners.

fromMarTech

16 hours ago

Adobe rebrands Experience Cloud as 'CX Enterprise,' goes all-in on AI agents | MarTech

Adobe is launching CX Enterprise, an AI-first platform integrating creative and marketing capabilities, at Adobe Summit 2026.

fromWashington Monthly

22 hours ago

How Amazon's AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay

The complaint alleges that Amazon maintains a monopoly in online retail through a self-reinforcing cycle of dominance that thwarts competitors and entrenches its market grip.

E-Commerce

15 hours ago

Europe picks 4 sovereign cloud providers, but one has Google

The European Commission awarded contracts for cloud services, raising concerns about true independence due to involvement of S3NS, a Thales and Google Cloud joint venture.

The best and worst states for AI data centers

Texas is attracting data center investments with tax incentives, while Maine is implementing a moratorium to evaluate the impact of data centers.

Data science

Eaton: AI data centers need aerospace-grade engineering

AI demands require a complete overhaul of data center infrastructure, moving from traditional cooling methods to advanced systems-level designs.

Environment

fromAxios

The best and worst states for AI data centers

Texas is attracting data center investments with tax incentives, while Maine is implementing a moratorium to evaluate the impact of data centers.

Data science

Eaton: AI data centers need aerospace-grade engineering

AI demands require a complete overhaul of data center infrastructure, moving from traditional cooling methods to advanced systems-level designs.

Scale sets edge platform's software ever more free from hardware constraints

Scale Computing is reducing hardware requirements for its software, allowing more flexibility for partners and customers in choosing hardware platforms.

Scala

New Scale Computing gets new Velocity Partner Program

Scale Computing revamps its partner program to address market changes and strengthen relationships with partners amid industry challenges.

Scale sets edge platform's software ever more free from hardware constraints

Scale Computing is reducing hardware requirements for its software, allowing more flexibility for partners and customers in choosing hardware platforms.

Scala

New Scale Computing gets new Velocity Partner Program

Scale Computing revamps its partner program to address market changes and strengthen relationships with partners amid industry challenges.

more#scale-computing

Users complain of UK Azure capacity problems

Azure UK is full. Like full full. There's no additional quota available in any UK region, meaning no new VMs or AKS clusters can be created.

Tech industry

Using AWS Lambda Extensions to Run Post-Response Telemetry Flush

Lambda extensions enable post-response work, improving API response times by managing telemetry flushing without impacting request handling.

Software development

Weighing the benefits of AWS Lambda's durable functions

Node JS

Using AWS Lambda Extensions to Run Post-Response Telemetry Flush

Lambda extensions enable post-response work, improving API response times by managing telemetry flushing without impacting request handling.

Software development

Weighing the benefits of AWS Lambda's durable functions

more#aws-lambda

fromAxios

7 hours ago

Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership

Anthropic is investing heavily in compute capacity to enhance its Claude models, competing directly with OpenAI's infrastructure advantage.

1 day ago

Engineering Stable, Secure and Scalable Platforms: A Conversation with Matthew Liste

I was always a tinkerer, I guess. I grew up in the age where computers were not ubiquitous or common. An experience as a kid was instrumental in how my career happened.

DevOps

fromTNW | Investors-Funding

20 hours ago

AirTrunk enters India by acquiring Lumina CloudInfra

Blackstone consolidates AirTrunk and Lumina CloudInfra to enhance its data center operations in India's hyperscale market.

From hours to minutes: How Agentic AI gave marketers time back for what matters | Amazon Web Services

AWS Marketing's TAA team developed an AI solution that drastically reduces webpage assembly time, enhancing efficiency and content quality for marketing teams.

Web frameworks

Speed at Scale: Optimizing the Largest CX Platform Out There

Optimizing performance in customer experience platforms involves addressing challenges rather than focusing solely on the latest technologies.

Business intelligence

v | Fortune

Artificial intelligence threatens the traditional SaaS business model, leading to significant market vulnerabilities and increased competition.

Alternative transportation

Mozilla takes on enterprise AI providers with Thunderbolt

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client as an open-source alternative to proprietary enterprise AI platforms, emphasizing data privacy and control.

fromTNW | Amazon

Uber joins Amazon's Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal

Uber expands AWS contract to enhance ride-matching infrastructure using Amazon's Graviton4 and pilots AI model training on Trainium3.

London startup

Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline? | Computer Weekly

US datacentre capacity is projected to triple, while the UK will slip in global rankings for datacentre capacity.

Salesforce debuts Headless 360 agentic platform

Salesforce's Headless 360 expands app-building tools beyond traditional developers, enabling API-driven interactions across various platforms.

14 hours ago

This Is When ServiceNow Proves It Can Survive the SaaS-Pocalypse

ServiceNow's Q1 2026 results will reveal if stock decline is due to fundamental issues or overreaction to AI fears.

E-Commerce

6 days ago

Amazon Will Sell You Your Next Car

Amazon Autos offers extensive vehicle options and payment choices, revolutionizing car shopping with geotargeting and online convenience.

1 day ago

Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking - What Works, What Hurts?

Event-driven architecture in regulated industries offers benefits and challenges that need careful consideration.

fromBenzinga

Amazon, Meta Are 'Dislocated High Quality' Bargains: Analyst - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Meta Platforms (

Expectations of a softer second quarter as advertising budgets tighten, with major tech stocks seen as high-quality opportunities despite macro uncertainty.

#cloud-computing

6 days ago

Business intelligence

The hyperscalers are pricing themselves out of AI workloads

Business intelligence

Hyperscaler datacentres set to dominate by 2031 | Computer Weekly

fromSitePoint Forums | Web Development & Design Community

DevOps

When cloud giants neglect resilience

Agriculture

Cloud computing

Business intelligence

6 days ago

The hyperscalers are pricing themselves out of AI workloads

AI is challenging traditional cloud pricing models, as buyers seek exceptional value beyond brand recognition and familiar pricing strategies.

Business intelligence

Hyperscaler datacentres set to dominate by 2031 | Computer Weekly

Hyperscalers are projected to dominate global datacentre capacity, reaching 67% by 2031, driven by AI growth.

fromSitePoint Forums | Web Development & Design Community

When cloud giants neglect resilience

Cloud outages highlight reliability issues as providers prioritize cost-cutting over service stability, raising questions about acceptable levels of unreliability.

Agriculture

Cloud computing

Microsoft Takes Over Key Stargate Site in Latest OpenAI Pullback

Microsoft has taken over data center capacity in Norway originally intended for OpenAI's Stargate project amid OpenAI's spending reductions.

22 hours ago

Storage implications of a modern IT architecture | Computer Weekly

Organizations are increasingly using containers to modernize applications and manage both cloud-native and traditional workloads with Kubernetes.

fromAdExchanger

Amazon Ads Hands The IAB Tech Lab A Tool That Promises To Waste Fewer Bid Requests | AdExchanger

The ad tech industry needs open-source tools like Dynamic Traffic Engine to optimize real-time bidding and improve traffic efficiency.

fromDevOps.com

From Code to Cloud: How Full-Stack Developers are Taking Over DevOps - DevOps.com

Full-stack engineers now integrate DevOps practices, managing the entire software process from code to cloud, emphasizing early testing and automation.

Oracle's New AWS Partnership Just Put It Ahead of Azure and Google Cloud

Multicloud setups are essential for enterprise AI, enabling seamless data movement and integration across different cloud providers.

AWS Announces General Availability of DevOps Agent for Automated Incident Investigation

AWS has launched DevOps Agent, an AI-powered assistant for troubleshooting and automating tasks in AWS environments.

DevOps

AWS Introduces S3 Files, Bringing File System Access to S3 Buckets

DevOps

AWS Launches Agent Registry in Preview to Govern AI Agent Sprawl Across Enterprises

DevOps

AWS launches Agent Registry for managing AI agents

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry

AWS Agent Registry enhances visibility and control over AI agents in corporate environments.

Business

AWS Q4 results: Public cloud giant continues to reap rewards of enterprise demand for AI and IaaS | Computer Weekly

AWS Q4 2025 revenue rose 24% to $35.6bn, driven by strong demand for cloud compute and AI; full-year AWS revenue grew 20% to $128.7bn.

AWS Announces General Availability of DevOps Agent for Automated Incident Investigation

AWS has launched DevOps Agent, an AI-powered assistant for troubleshooting and automating tasks in AWS environments.

AWS Introduces S3 Files, Bringing File System Access to S3 Buckets

AWS S3 Files allows users to mount S3 buckets for standard file system access, optimizing data access for various applications.

AWS Launches Agent Registry in Preview to Govern AI Agent Sprawl Across Enterprises

AWS Agent Registry provides a centralized catalog for managing AI agents, tools, and skills across organizations, addressing agent sprawl and compliance issues.

AWS launches Agent Registry for managing AI agents

AWS introduces the Agent Registry to centralize AI agent management and reduce chaos in organizations deploying numerous agents.

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry

AWS Agent Registry enhances visibility and control over AI agents in corporate environments.

Business

AWS Q4 results: Public cloud giant continues to reap rewards of enterprise demand for AI and IaaS | Computer Weekly

The agent tier: Rethinking runtime architecture for context-driven enterprise workflows

Digital workflows in large enterprises struggle to adapt to contextual variations, leading to increased complexity and challenges in customer onboarding processes.

fromBusiness Matters

The Role of Dedicated Servers in Scaling Modern Businesses

Infrastructure investment is crucial for SMEs to ensure reliability, performance, and user experience in a competitive digital landscape.

AWS turns its S3 storage service into a file system for AI agents

S3 Files simplifies access to Amazon S3, enhancing its role as a primary data layer for AI and modern applications.

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes'

Amazon S3 celebrates 20 years of operation, growing from 1 petabyte capacity to storing over 500 trillion objects while maintaining complete API backward compatibility since 2006.

AWS turns its S3 storage service into a file system for AI agents

S3 Files simplifies access to Amazon S3, enhancing its role as a primary data layer for AI and modern applications.

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes'

Amazon S3 celebrates 20 years of operation, growing from 1 petabyte capacity to storing over 500 trillion objects while maintaining complete API backward compatibility since 2006.

more#amazon-s3

AWS S3 buckets now support file systems

S3 Files is built on Amazon EFS and automatically translates file system operations into S3 requests, allowing applications to work with S3 data without code changes.

DevOps

fromBusiness Insider

Amazon's cloud reboot shows the future of consulting in the AI era

AI is driving radical change inside ProServe, offering a glimpse of where the broader consulting industry may be headed. ProServe focuses on technical consulting for AWS clients, while the Big Four span audit, tax, risk, and strategy. That diversification could make them more resilient. AI isn't the only force at work: global instability is increasing demand for complex risk consulting, for example.

Education

Venture

OpenAI Secures AWS Distribution for Frontier Platform in $110B Multi-Cloud Deal

OpenAI secured $110 billion in funding with Amazon investing $50 billion as exclusive distributor for Frontier, splitting cloud strategy between Azure for stateless APIs and AWS for stateful runtime environments.

Miscellaneous

Amazon's Power Move: Making AI Profitable by Bringing It In-House

Amazon is developing proprietary AI chips (Trainium and Inferentia) to reduce reliance on expensive Nvidia GPUs and dramatically lower AI development costs while improving profitability.

Reducing Onboarding From 48 Hours to 4: Inside Amazon Key's Event-Driven Platform

A centralized, event-driven architecture on Amazon EventBridge replaced a monolithic, tightly coupled platform to enable millions of daily events, millisecond latency, and scalable consumer onboarding.

#ai-agent-infrastructure

Artificial intelligence

Running agents in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Artificial intelligence

Grappling with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Running agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides enterprise-grade infrastructure for deploying and managing AI agents at scale, supporting multiple models, frameworks, and integrations while remaining model-agnostic.

Artificial intelligence

Running agents in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Artificial intelligence

Grappling with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

more#ai-agent-infrastructure

Running agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon is linking site hiccups to AI efforts

Amazon is implementing senior engineer approval requirements for AI-assisted code changes after experiencing multiple outages attributed to AI tools.

fromBusiness Insider

AI rewrites the economics of Amazon's cloud-consulting business

If GenAI enhances or speeds things up, they should get more value faster and shouldn't pay the same rates. Our customers' buying patterns shifted to favor agile, outcome-based, AI-powered engagements with faster time to value and clear ROI, creating a significant revenue and workload concentration risk in our top revenue cohort.

Business intelligence

AWS CloudFormation 2025 Year In Review | Amazon Web Services

CloudFormation and CDK improved 2025 features for early template validation, deployment safety via drift management, and AI-integrated IaC tooling for multi-account deployments.

AWS prepares to invest $200 billion in AI infrastructure by 2026

Amazon will invest about $200 billion by 2026, primarily in AWS, expanding data-center capacity to meet structurally higher AI-driven compute demand.

fromMedium

Reusing CloudFront, ALB, and API Gateway in a Serverless Platform

Edge architecture decisions around CloudFront, ALB, and API Gateway significantly impact deployment speed and isolation in serverless platforms while balancing security, compliance, and cost.

Smash tech debt with AWS Transform: The new era of migration and modernization | Amazon Web Services

Agentic AI via AWS Transform eliminates technical debt, accelerating enterprise modernization while saving developer effort and reducing costs.

AWS Launches Agent Plugins to Automate Cloud Deployment

AWS Agent Plugins enable AI coding agents to deploy applications on AWS using natural language commands, generating complete deployment pipelines with architecture recommendations and cost estimates.

Amazon Web Services expands Security Hub for multicloud security

AWS Security Hub expands to centralize security alerts and risks across multiple cloud environments and external security tools into a single platform.

fromTechRepublic

AWS Unveils Generative AI Essentials Course

AWS launched Generative AI Essentials, a beginner-focused Coursera and edX course teaching practical, production-oriented generative AI skills using AWS tools.

fromTechCrunch

Amazon may launch a marketplace where media sites can sell their content to AI companies | TechCrunch

Amazon is reportedly planning a marketplace to let publishers license content directly to AI companies to provide legally safe training data.

Building a scalable code modernization solution with AWS Transform custom | Amazon Web Services

An open-source infrastructure enables enterprise-scale, parallel AWS Transform custom code modernizations using AWS Batch, Fargate, REST APIs, and CloudWatch monitoring.