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UK lawmakers asked the government to ban toys with generative AI chatbots for children under 16 and urged Amazon and eBay to remove them from sale.
Amazon revised its software engineering guidelines to focus on outcomes as AI agents write most code for many of its developers.
Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle and Google disclosed plans to raise more than $131 billion through loans, bonds and stock offerings as they expand AI infrastructure.
Global cloud infrastructure service revenue rose 55% from a year earlier to $167.7 billion in the third quarter of 2026, with AI specific services accounting for about one third of the market.
Verisk is adding its insurance intelligence to Amazon Quick and Microsoft Copilot while expanding the information available through Claude.
AWS generated $46 billion in third quarter revenue, up 39% from a year earlier, while Amazon's increased AI infrastructure spending pushed free cash flow into an outflow.
Amazon says token use, AI adoption and generated code are flawed measures of engineering productivity.
Prime Video is adding Prime 360, an AI powered virtual camera and replay system, to select NBA broadcasts during its second season of coverage.
Amazon will withdraw its plan for four data centers on the former George Washington University campus in Ashburn and donate 25 acres to Loudoun County.
Amazon updated its internal AI safety tests after an independent AVERI review found gaps in language coverage, prompt difficulty, and grading criteria.
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion in Germany in 2027, including €4.8 billion for cloud and AI infrastructure in the AWS Frankfurt Region.
American Electric Power, Amazon and X-energy will study a proposed 960 MW nuclear project at a former coal plant site in Sullivan County, Indiana.
Amazon, Target and Walmart are adopting different policies for outside AI shopping agents as merchants address customer data, payment authority and purchase errors.
Bee introduced two personal AI devices that summarize conversations and create tasks, calendar events and other notes. Frontier costs $74.99, while the smartphone mounted Eclipse costs $99.99.
Amazon is reportedly negotiating to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for about $7 billion. The companies already work together through AWS, which gave Decart early access to its Trainium3 chip.
Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, citing its lack of identification and potential handling of customer data.
Amazon has launched Alexa+ Early Access in India with support for English, Hindi and Hinglish. The generative AI assistant is free during Early Access and stays free for Prime plan members afterward.
Twitch has added a setting that lets streamers opt out of having channel content used to train Amazon generative AI models. Creators are included by default unless they turn the setting off.
Amazon is cutting an unspecified number of roles in its AGI organization and closing its San Francisco AGI site. The company says work on its frontier model research lab will continue.
The White House is preparing a new voluntary agreement to ensure rising energy needs from artificial intelligence data centers do not increase rates for households and small businesses. The initiative follows an earlier Ratepayer Protection Pledge signed by major technology companies, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI.
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