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Amazon now has its own AI image generator
Amazon has hopped on the same bandwagon many major tech companies have hitched a ride on this year by debuting its own image generator. A preview of Titan Image Generator is now available for AWS customers.
Amazon says its next-gen chips are four times faster for AI training
AWS unveiled its latest-generation of AI chips intended for model training and for running trained models. It also announced a deeper partnership with Nvidia and unveiled a new AI chatbot.
The NFL and Amazon are using AI to invent new football stats
The National Football League is working with Amazon Web Services to create AI-powered algorithms that extract meaningful data from games and decipher patterns in player performances.
Every Amazon division is working on generative AI projects
Just like pretty much every other major tech company, Amazon is placing a heavy focus on generative artificial intelligence. CEO Andy Jassy noted on Amazon's latest earnings call that every division has multiple generative AI projects in the works.
Amazon launches an accelerator to boost generative AI startups
Amazon is helping generative AI startups get off the ground through a new program.
Twitch says it fixed an issue that prevented people from watching streams
Twitch is currently experiencing an issue that is preventing parts of the platform, including channels and streams, from loading properly.
Wickr’s consumer messaging app will shut down next year
Wickr Me will shut down on December 31st, 2023.
Amazon is opening a center for quantum networking research
Researchers will work on technology that may lead to the creation of global quantum networks.
Amazon suspends shipments and Prime Video access in Russia
The company announced today that it will suspend shipments of products in Russia and Belarus, as well as halt access to Prime Video in Russia.
Amazon stops accepting new AWS customers in Russia and Belarus
Another important internet player is changing its relationship with Russia due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sega left one of its European servers wide open
A misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket contained sensitive information which allowed researchers to arbitrarily upload files to Sega-owned domains and abuse a 250,000-user email list.
AWS had another outage, this time affecting apps like Slack and Hulu
A power outage at an AWS data center caused issues for at least the third time this month.
Amazon explains outage that took out a large chunk of the internet
Amazon has explained the AWS outage that knocked a large part of the internet offline, and promised an easier time tracking those failures.
Amazon Web Services went down and took a bunch of the internet with it
This follows a massive AWS outage in June.
Amazon open-sources its in-house game engine
Amazon is open-sourcing its Lumberyard game engine, making the technology more accessible to everyone.
Amazon buys the secure messaging platform Wickr
Amazon has bought the secure messaging platform Wickr to offer secure messaging. It's meant for AWS, but it raises other possibilities.
Feds charge man with planning to blow up an Amazon data center
The FBI has charged a Texas man with planning to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia and help 'kill' most of the internet.
Parler sues Amazon again, this time in Washington state
Parler may have voluntarily withdrawn its federal lawsuit against Amazon, but the company isn’t ready to give up its legal battle just yet.
Parler withdraws its lawsuit against Amazon for kicking it off AWS
Parler has dropped a lawsuit accusing Amazon of taking the site offline to help Twitter.
Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon
Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, announced today that he plans to step down as CEO this year.
