💲AMZN
The cost cutting at Amazon continues to produce financial results. My team grew from 6 to 800 in 9 years. That was awesome for me and we got a lot done, but throwing people at problems eventually led to giant, expensive teams. /@EthanEvans/
☑️ #181 Jun 29, 2025
Amazon (MONSTER) Insider Trading Alert
@Barchart: Founder Jeff Bezos to dump $5.4 BILLION worth of $AMZN shares
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sec.gov > Form 4 [Statement of changes in beneficial ownership of securities] (update; 7/1/25)
Screenshot. The Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system is the primary way for companies and individuals to submit filings to the SEC in accord with the federal securities laws. About EDGAR. Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission The first transactions took place on June 27 and June 30: Jeff Bezos sold more than 3,324,926 shares of the company generating about $736.7 million before taxes.
sec.gov > Form 144 [Report of proposed sale of securities] (6/27/25) > [Excerpt] Securities To Be Sold:
Title of the Class: Common
Date you Acquired: 07/05/1994
Nature of Acquisition Transaction: Purchase - Original Issue
Name of Person from Whom Acquired: Issuer
Is this a Gift? /
Date Donor Acquired: /
Amount of Securities Acquired: 25000000
Date of Payment: 07/05/1994
Nature of Payment *: Founder Stock
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☑️ #180 Jun 4, 2025 🔴 rumor
Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots
reuters.com: [Excerpt] The company is developing the artificial intelligence software that would power such robots, the report said, adding that Amazon plans to use hardware from other firms in its tests, for now.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for a comment outside its regular business hours.
In a series of announcements on Wednesday, Amazon demonstrated how stockroom robots, delivery people and its sprawling warehouses will all benefit from a hefty dose of AI, speeding packages to customer doorsteps.
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theinformation.com (6/4/25): Amazon Prepares to Test Humanoid Robots for Delivering Package.
Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers.
The Information reported citing a person familiar with the matter. The Information is subscription-only publication.
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☑️ #179 Jun 2, 2025
The Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal
In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.
The New York Times Company has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon for use in the tech giant’s artificial intelligence platforms, the company said on Thursday.
The multiyear agreement “will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” the news organization said in a statement. Besides news articles, the agreement encompasses material from NYT Cooking, The Times’s food and recipe site, and The Athletic, which focuses on sports.
This is The Times’s first licensing arrangement with a focus on generative A.I. technology.
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☑️ #178 May30, 2025
Amazon Pledges to Continue Aggressive Data Center Expansion
bloomberg.com: [Excerpt] Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud services chief says the company is aggressively expanding server farms globally and looking to boost access to the latest artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia Corp.
Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest seller of rented computing power and data storage, opened a cluster of data centers in Mexico earlier this year, AWS Chief Executive Officer Matt Garman said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Television. The cloud division is also building out new facilities in Chile, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan, Garman said.
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aboutamazon.com (update; 6/9/25): [Excerpt] Amazon plans to invest $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation.
Amazon plans to invest at least $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand its AI infrastructure, creating 1,250 new high-skilled jobs and supporting thousands more in the AWS data center supply chain.
Since 2010, Amazon has invested $26 billion in Pennsylvania, contributing more than $26 billion to the Commonwealth’s GDP and supporting 27,000 full and part-time jobs, as well as 37,100 indirect jobs across various facilities.
press.aboutamazon.com (update; 6/5/25): [Excerpt] Amazon Launches Infrastructure Region in Taiwan.
The AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region consists of three Availability Zones at launch, giving AWS 117 Availability Zones across 37 AWS Regions globally.
With today’s announcement, AWS has plans for 13 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Chile, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
The AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region is sovereign-by-design, just as the AWS Cloud has been since day one.
aws.amazon.com: [Excerpt] AWS Global Infrastructure. The most secure, extensive, and reliable Global Cloud Infrastructure, for all your applications.
AWS Global Infrastructure Map
The AWS Cloud spans 117 Availability Zones within 37 geographic regions, with announced plans for 13 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Chile, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
aboutamazon.com (update; 6/4/25): [Excerpt] Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation.
Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand its AI infrastructure, creating 500 new high-skilled jobs and supporting thousands more in the AWS data center supply chain.
Since 2010, Amazon has invested $12 billion in North Carolina, contributing $13.1 billion to the state's GDP and supporting 24,000 full and part-time jobs plus 26,000 indirect jobs across various facilities.
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☑️ #177 May 6, 2025 🟥 0-shot prompting
[TOPIC] ZOOX’s purpose-built autonomous vehicle: Scale up self-driving robotaxi production
phind.com (Phind-70B) & perplexity.ai: [Sources not verified. Do your own research] Recent software recall affecting 270 vehicles due to prediction accuracy problems. April 2025 collision in Las Vegas highlighted system limitations and engineering costs currently dominating operational expenses.
While Zoox aims to scale up production for US expansion, several factors indicate a gradual rather than rapid transition to full commercialization. Zoox's path forward appears to be characterized by careful, incremental progress driven by technological advancement, regulatory compliance, and market conditions.
The company's position under Amazon's backing provides stability for this measured approach, allowing for necessary investment in solving complex technical challenges rather than rushing toward arbitrary deadlines.
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aboutamazon.com: ZOOX
zoox.com > @ZooxYouTube (4/3/25): Steering the Future | Episode 1.
perplexity.ai: Zoox’s inaccurately confident prediction explained. What happened?
Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, issued a voluntary recall of 270 robotaxis (2024 Zoox sedans) after an incident in Las Vegas on April 8, 2025. The root cause was a software defect: at speeds over 40 mph, the Zoox vehicle could make an “inaccurately confident prediction” about how another vehicle would behave, especially when a car entered its lane from a perpendicular driveway.
static.nhtsa.gov (5/1/25; pdf): [Excerpts] Part 573 Safety Recall Report 25E-029
Description of Defect: In situations where Zoox vehicles are operating at speeds greater than 40mph, and a vehicle incrementally encroaches from a perpendicular driveway approaching the Zoox vehicle's lane and subsequently halts, the Zoox vehicle may make an inaccurately confident prediction that the vehicle is going to proceed into the Zoox vehicle's lane. The Zoox vehicle may plan a path of travel based on the inaccurate prediction of the other vehicle trajectory, resulting in the inability to respond in a timely fashion to avoid a collision.
Chronology: On April 8, 2025, in Las Vegas, NV, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi operating in autonomy was involved in a collision with a passenger car. There were no injuries. Zoox paused all driverless vehicle operations across all geofences to conduct an internal review.
On April 10, 2025, Zoox confirmed, with simulation and analysis, that this condition would occur only at speeds over 40mph. Based on this analysis, driverless vehicle operations were unpaused in geofences with maximum speeds below 40 mph, but excluded Las Vegas routes above 40 mph.
On April 11, 2025, after further analysis, Zoox confirmed the root cause, implemented a software update, and began testing it both in simulation and on drivered, retrofitted test vehicles.
On April 13, 2025, Zoox reported the incident to NHTSA in accordance with the Standing General Order (SGO
Report #30610-10473-1).
On April 15, 2025 Zoox verified the software update through the safety clearance process.
On April 16 and 17, 2025, updated software was released to all impacted Zoox vehicles operating on public roads. Following confirmation of the deployment of the updated software, operations resumed in all geofences.
The Zoox Safety Committee met on April 17 and 23, 2025 and after final analysis and review of all the facts, made a determination to voluntarily and proactively submit this Part 573 notification for the previously remedied software.
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☑️ #176 May 1-2, 2025
Jeff Bezos plans to sell $4.75 billion worth of Amazon stock
ir.aboutamazon.com > SEC > 8-K > 10-Q: Amazon said in its quarterly report filed with the SEC that Jeff Bezos adopted a trading plan on March 4 "intended to satisfy Rule 10b5-1(c)" to sell up to 25 million of the company's common stock over a period ending on May 29, 2026.
This aligns with a plan announced in May 2024,
set to complete by year-end, under the SEC’s 10b5-1 rule to avoid insider trading issues.Form 144 (7/2/24): Report of proposed sale of securities
Number of Shares or Other Units To Be Sold: 25,000,000
Number of Shares or Other Units Outstanding: 10,406,627,415
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☑️ #175 Apr 30, 2025
The United States of Amazon
Kyla’s Newsletter: maga-maoism, long degeneracy, GDP.
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☑️ #174 Apr 29, 2025
Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
punchbowl.news: [Excerpt] Amazon doesn’t want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump’s trade war.
So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump’s tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan.
The shopping site will display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price.
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cnbc.com: [Excerpt] Amazon says displaying tariff cost ‘not going to happen’ after White House blowback.
“The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products,” Amazon spokesperson Tim Doyle said in a statement. “This was never approved and is not going to happen.”
@WhiteHouse: The right way → @Axios: 'Walmart is expanding support for American-made products through new programs to help small businesses.'
THE TRUMP EFFECT.
Exclusive: Walmart expands support for American-made products [https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/walmart-products-made-america-small-business-program]
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☑️ #173 Apr 10, 2025
CEO Andy Jassy’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders
aboutamazon.com: [Excerpt] Next generation Whys.
While the team and I feel quite optimistic about the progress and potential of our existing businesses, we have plenty of new Whys we’re asking. Below are a few of them and some quick thoughts.
Why is AI so important? Will it really have as much impact as some claim and when?
Generative AI is going to reinvent virtually every customer experience we know, and enable altogether new ones about which we’ve only fantasized. The early AI workloads being deployed focus on productivity and cost avoidance (e.g. customer service, business process orchestration, workflow, translation, etc.). This is saving companies a lot of money. Increasingly, you’ll see AI change the norms in coding, search, shopping, personal assistants, primary care, cancer and drug research, biology, robotics, space, financial services, neighborhood networks—everything. Some of these areas are already seeing rapid progress; others are still in their infancy. But, if your customer experiences aren’t planning to leverage these intelligent models, their ability to query giant corpuses of data and quickly find your needle in the haystack, their ability to keep getting smarter with more feedback and data, and their future agentic capabilities, you will not be competitive. How soon? It won’t all happen in a year or two, but, it won’t take ten either. It’s moving faster than almost anything technology has ever seen.
OK, I buy AI is big; but why invest this much this quickly?
Fundamentally, if your mission is to make customers’ lives better and easier every day, and you believe every customer experience will be reinvented by AI, you’re going to invest deeply and broadly in AI. That’s why there are more than 1,000 GenAI applications being built across Amazon, aiming to meaningfully change customer experiences in shopping, coding, personal assistants, streaming video and music, advertising, healthcare, reading, and home devices, to name a few. It’s also why AWS is quickly developing the key primitives (or building blocks) for AI development, such as custom silicon AI chips in Amazon Trainium to provide better price-performance on training and inference, highly flexible model-building and inference services in Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock, our own frontier models in Amazon Nova to provide lower cost and latency for customers’ applications, and agent creation and management capabilities.
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☑️ #172 Apr 2, 2025
Here’s what to expect from Project Kuiper’s first full-scale satellite launch
aboutamazon.com: [Excerpt] United Launch Alliance will send 27 Kuiper satellites into low Earth orbit as we begin a full-scale deployment of our satellite internet network.
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@ulalaunch (update; 4/10/25):The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper 1 mission for the Amazon’s Project Kuiper was scrubbed today due to inclement weather. A new launch date will be announced when approved on the range.
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☑️ #171 Feb 27, 2024
Amazon Web Services announces a new quantum computing chip
aboutamazon.com: [Excerpt] New 'Ocelot' chip uses scalable architecture for reducing error correction by up to 90% and accelerating the development of real-world quantum computing applications.
New approach to quantum error correction
To address the current problems associated with quantum error correction, researchers at AWS developed Ocelot. Ocelot was designed from the ground up with error correction “built in.” “We looked at how others were approaching quantum error correction and decided to take a different path,” said Painter. “We didn't take an existing architecture and then try to incorporate error correction afterwards. We selected our qubit and architecture with quantum error correction as the top requirement. We believe that if we're going to make practical quantum computers, quantum error correction needs to come first.” In fact, according to Painter, his team estimates that scaling Ocelot to a “fully-fledged quantum computer capable of transformative societal impact would require as little as one-tenth of the resources associated with standard quantum error correcting approaches.”
AWS’s reverse logistics program provides a sustainable path for components—all while maintaining the highest level of data security.
One way to think about quantum correction is in the context of quality control in manufacturing, and the difference between needing one inspection point to catch all defects, instead of 10 inspection points. In other words, it offers the same result, but with fewer resources and an overall improved manufacturing process. By reducing the amount of resources needed through approaches such as with Ocelot, quantum computers can be built smaller, more reliably, and at lower cost. All of this accelerates the path to applying quantum computing to future applications in the real-world, such as faster drug discovery and development, the production of new materials, the ability to make more accurate predictions about risk and investment strategies in financial markets, and many more.
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@AmazonNews (2/25/25): Take a look inside AWS's quantum computing lab.
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) > Campus Map > Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing
Source: Amazon.com, Inc.. Related content: Announcing the opening of the AWS Center for Quantum Computing (10/26/21)
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☑️ #170 Dec 20, 2024
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Brazilian Bum Bum Cream!
nytimes.com: [Excerpt] Recently, Amazon has developed a new drone — known as the MK-30 — that it claims solves many of the problems with previous models. The new drones fly twice as far, and the company says they are significantly quieter. The drones can also identify where to drop packages with the help of cameras and sensors, which means no more yard surveys or QR codes.
This year, Amazon began offering drone delivery from a facility in Tolleson, Ariz., a suburb of Phoenix — where, as in Texas, the skies are typically sunny and clear, making for optimal flying conditions. Its drones now deliver dozens of packages a day to real, paying customers in the West Valley Phoenix Metro area — a tiny fraction of what even one Amazon van could do, but a step toward fulfilling Mr. Bezos’ original vision.
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☑️ #169 Dec 9, 2024
Intuit and Amazon Expand Strategic Partnership
investors.intuit.com: [Excerpt] Intuit QuickBooks will become Amazon’s preferred partner for financial management solutions integrated directly into Amazon Seller Central to fuel the success of Amazon sellers.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a multi-year strategic partnership to empower millions of Amazon sellers to manage their finances, stay compliant, access capital, and grow their business. By leveraging Intuit’s AI-driven expert platform, millions of Amazon sellers will be able to discover and access Intuit’s platform seamlessly, benefiting from powerful financial insights like profitability, cash flow, and estimated tax liabilities to fuel their growth.
Key benefits for sellers include:
Comprehensive financial management.
Simplified access to capital.
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☑️ #168 Dec 9, 2024
Bitcoin Treasury Assesment
@FreeEntProject: The rumors are true: #Microsoft won't be our last #Bitcoin proposal.
On Friday we presented a Bitcoin proposal to #Amazon. Read our $AMZN proposal here: https://nationalcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Amazon-Proposal.pdf
$BTC $MSFT #Crypto #CryptoNews #cryptocurrency
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☑️ #167 Dec 6, 2024
Limits of automation in Shreveport (SHV1)
wsj.com: [Excerpt] Amazon’s New Robotic Warehouse Will Rely Heavily on Human Workers.
The 3 million-square-foot distribution center in Shreveport, La., demonstrates the limits of automation in big logistics operations.
Amazon just opened its most-automated warehouse yet. But underneath the robotics and artificial-intelligence technology at the site, the facility will still rely on thousands of employees.
The e-commerce behemoth said its 3 million-square-foot building in Shreveport, La., is its first warehouse to use automation and artificial intelligence at every step of the fulfillment process.
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aboutamazon.com (10/9/24): Amazon unveils the next generation of fulfillment centers powered by AI and 10 times more robotics.
nlep.org (10/26/23): Amazon Invests in Second Facility in Shreveport.
This facility will be the second Amazon location in Shreveport, with the first being a Robotics Fulfillment Center slated to open in mid-2024. At Robotics Fulfillment Centers, employees work side-by-side with robots to pick, pack, and ship customer orders such as books, toys, and housewares. A last-mile facility is where customer orders are prepared for delivery to customers.
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☑️ #166 Dec 4, 2024 🟠 opinion
Limits of automation in Shreveport (SHV1)
@RihardJarc: Investors have underestimated $AMZN's AI strategy with the narrative that $AMZN is behind in AI.
Now, this narrative is proving out to be wrong, and the stock is getting rerated as:
$AMZN now has a significant stake in Anthropic (the number 2 LLM provider right now), and AWS becoming Anthropic's main cloud provider.
AWS is seeing big AI adoption with their Bedrock open strategy approach, with the AWS CEO saying yesterday that the number of users on AWS Bedrock in the last year alone had 5x.
Jassy saying that you will see a 25% lower cost to serve this holiday because of AI and robotics
$AMZN making significant strides with its custom silicon AI ASIC development with companies like Anthropic using AWS custom chips, but also $AAPL becoming their chip client.
Once again, the market's lack of understanding of a company's fundamental development and domain knowledge is the reason why there are always opportunities out there. As Philip Fisher said it well: The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
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☑️ #165 Dec 3, 2024
AWS CEO Talks New Chip Clusters, Nvidia and AI Ambitions
@markets: [Excerpt] AWS CEO Matt Garman discusses Amazon's new AI chip arrays and a large language model called Nova. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Garman also comments on the company's partnerships with Intel and Nvidia. Amazon's new chip arrays, called Project Rainier, will contain hundreds of thousands of Trainium2 semiconductors, quintupling Anthropic's current processing power.
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☑️ #164 Dec 3, 2024
PwC, AWS Expand Strategic Alliance to Catalyze Generative-AI powered Transformation for Industry Customers
pwc.com: [Excerpt] Collaboration will leverage new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks, announced today at AWS re:Invent.
According to the PwC US 2024 Cloud and AI Business Survey, companies that are seeing increased productivity and creating new revenue streams with GenAI are more than twice as likely to realize these benefits through industry-specific solutions. Together, PwC and AWS will build a series of industry-specific applications based on proven use cases leveraging the broad selection of proven foundation models from leading AI companies like Amazon—including Amazon Nova—a new generation of foundation models (FMs) that have state-of-the-art intelligence across a wide range of tasks, and industry-leading price performance. Amazon Bedrock also comprises the new Automated Reasoning checks, the first and only GenAI safeguard that helps prevent factual errors due to hallucinations, using logically accurate and verifiable reasoning. This gives customers confidence to more easily deploy powerful and explainable GenAI solutions that can enhance decision-making and accelerate digital transformation.
PwC will also integrate Amazon Bedrock Automated Reasoning checks within existing industry solutions, such as the Maestro Medical Legal Review solution, to validate that LLM-generated content complies with regulations, and within call center solutions, helping customers more easily confirm that agents comply with respective company protocols.
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☑️ #163 Dec 3, 2024
Introducing Amazon Nova, our new generation of foundation models
aboutamazon.com: [Excerpt] New state-of-the-art foundation models from Amazon deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance.
As the next step in our AI journey, we’ve built Amazon Nova, a new generation of foundation models (FMs). With the ability to process text, image, and video as prompts, customers can use Amazon Nova-powered generative AI applications to understand videos, charts, and documents, or generate videos and other multimedia content.
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☑️ #162 Dec 3, 2024
Chip Trainium2 AI para Ultraclusters
press.aboutamazon.com: [Excerpt] AWS Trainium2 Instances Now Generally Available.
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling customers to train and deploy today’s latest AI models as well as future large language models (LLM) and foundation models (FM) with exceptional levels of performance and cost efficiency, and unveiled next-generation Trainium3 chips.
New Amazon EC2 Trn2 instances, featuring AWS’s newest Trainium2 AI chip, offer 30-40% better price performance than the current generation of GPU-based EC2 instances.
New Trn2 UltraServers use ultra-fast NeuronLink interconnect to connect four Trn2 servers together into one giant server, enabling the fastest training and inference on AWS for the world’s largest models.
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aws.amazon.com: Why Trainium?
AWS Trainium chips are a family of AI chips purpose built by AWS for AI training and inference to deliver high performance while reducing costs.
The first-generation AWS Trainium chip powers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances, which have up to 50% lower training costs than comparable Amazon EC2 instances. Many customers, including Databricks, Ricoh, NinjaTech AI, and Arcee AI, are realizing performance and cost benefits of Trn1 instances. Read more
Ultracluster in 2025: A massive Al supercomputer powered by its Trainium chips offering up to 83.2 petaflops of computing power.
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☑️ #161 Nov 27, 2024
Annapurna Labs
siliconangle.com: [Excerpt] Amazon’s secretive AI weapon: An exclusive look inside AWS’ Annapurna Labs chip operation.
Nestled on the ninth floor of an unassuming building in an affluent area of Austin, Texas dubbed The Domain, is one of the world’s most influential research labs powering modern artificial intelligence.
SiliconANGLE got an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Annapurna Labs, where the cloud powerhouse does the secretive work of designing and testing the upcoming generations of itsAI accelerator Trainium and custom cloud compute Graviton chips.
Upon arrival, Martin was greeted in the lobby and escorted to the Labs, a highly restricted area even for Amazon.com Inc. employees. After being checked in, given a temporary visitor’s pass and a handful of Jolly Ranchers, Martin met with Rami Sinno, director of silicon engineering at AWS. Joining AWS from Arm Holdings PLC, Sinno brought large-scale project management experience to the project since its inception, detailing the challenging work of recruiting a team of talented engineers for the Trainium chip, a completely stealth initiative at the time.
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☑️ #160 Nov 26, 2024
Japan competition authorities raid Amazon Japan, source says
asia.nikkei.com: [Excerpt] TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday conducted an on-site inspection of Amazon Japan on suspicion of violating anti-monopoly laws, a government source said.
The unit of Amazon.com is suspected of inappropriately urging sellers to lower their prices on its e-commerce site in exchange for giving their products advantageous placement on the site, the source said.
Amazon Japan was previously raided on similar suspicions in March 2018.
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☑️ #159 Nov 25, 2024 🟠 opinion
Researchers identified censorship blocklists used by Amazon US
@citizenlab: NEW REPORT: Our latest report reveals that the US storefront of @amazon uses a system to restrict shipments of certain products. We found 17k+ products that were restricted from being shipped to specific world regions, with the most common type of product being books. #censorship #AmazonCensorship #BannedBooks https://citizenlab.ca/2024/11/analysis-of-censorship-on-amazon-com/
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@citizenlab: The books that were banned were largely related to sensitive topics like erotica, religion, the occult, and LGBTIQ issues. Even though these books were in stock and a seller was willing to ship, Amazon still restricted users from shipping them to that region. Countries affected are the UAE, Saudi Arabia, other Middle Eastern countries as well as Brunei Darussalam, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, and Zambia.
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@citizenlab: However, there are some miscategorized books that fall victim to this censorship. Researchers identified censorship blocklists used by Amazon US that resulted in overly broad or miscategorized restriction of unrelated products. Some examples include books on breast cancer, Nietzsche’s Gay Science, and “rainbow” Mentos candy. Also banned are recipe books that invoke “food porn” euphemisms.
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@citizenlab: The study analyzes the complex censorship system #Amazon uses to restrict shipping . Our analysis reveals Amazon uses a model that is sensitive to the presence of keywords, (e.g., terms like “gay,” “porn”) but this method is flawed and flags books for keywords even when the content is not related to controversial topics.
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@citizenlab: The report concludes that @amazon fails to meet its obligations under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights which guarantees the right to access information and ideas without censorship.
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☑️ #158 Nov 23, 2024
Temu vs. Amazon
Bristlemoon Capital: Temu vs. Amazon is classic counter-positioning. $AMZN can’t compete head on with Temu because it’s hamstrung by its fee structure - its merchants simply can’t make money on ultracheap goods given the hefty fees Amazon charges. We explore this in our recent $PDD report.
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☑️ #157 Nov 22, 2024
Amazon's total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion
anthropic.com: [Excerpts] Powering the next generation of AI development with AWS.
Today we’re announcing an expansion of our collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), deepening our work together to develop and deploy advanced AI systems. This expanded partnership includes a new $4 billion investment from Amazon and establishes AWS as our primary cloud and training partner. This will bring Amazon's total investment in Anthropic to $8 billion, while maintaining their position as a minority investor.
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☑️ #156 Nov 21, 2024
The AI Effect: Amazon Sees Nearly 1 Billion Cyber Threats a Day
wsj.com: [Excerpt] The technology has spawned a surge in hacking attempts, says cyber chief CJ Moses, while Amazon is also using it to powerfully amp up its threat-analysis capability.
Just as criminals have embraced AI, Amazon has also turned to the technology to drastically scale up its threat-intelligence capabilities. The company, given its vast presence online, can now view activity on around 25% of all IP addresses on the internet, it says, between its Amazon Web Services platform, its Project Kuiper satellite program and its other businesses, giving the company a sweeping view of hacker capabilities and techniques.
Amazon’s chief information security officer, CJ Moses, spoke with WSJ Pro Cybersecurity on how the company is approaching threat intelligence in the AI era. Prior to his current role, Moses ran security for Amazon Web Services, its cloud business, and before that investigated cybercrime at both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
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☑️ #155 Nov 19, 2024
AI's Amazon moment
Mike’s Substack: Reinventing the $60T service economy.
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☑️ #154 Nov 11, 2024
Nam3L3ss
techcrunch.com: [Excerpt] Amazon confirms employee data stolen after hacker claims MOVEit breach.
The confirmation comes after a threat actor claimed to have published data stolen from Amazon on notorious hacking site BreachForums. The individual claims to have more than 2.8 million lines of data, which they say was stolen during last year’s mass-exploitation of MOVEit Transfer.
The threat actor, operating under the alias “Nam3L3ss” claims to have published data allegedly stolen from 25 major organizations, cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock reports.
In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery confirmed that employee information had been involved in a data breach.
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community.progress.com (6/25/24): MOVEit Transfer Critical Security Alert Bulletin – June 2024 – (CVE-2024-5806)
progress.com (7/5/23): MOVEit Transfer and MOVEit Cloud Vulnerability.
socradar.io (update; 11/12/24): [Excerpt] In the manifesto we mentioned, which was released alongside the data leak, Nam3L3ss claims they do not actively hack organizations but “simply monitor the dark web and exposed online cloud services.”
@fs0c131y (update; 11/12/24): Based on ChatGPT's analysis of messages from Nam3L3ss, the hacker who exploited the critical vulnerability in MOVEit could be either a native English speaker or a non-native speaker writing quickly and informally, without careful editing
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☑️ #153 Nov 11, 2024
US % Market Share of Parcel Volume
@libertyrpf: US Delivery market. Look at Amazon Logistics go!
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☑️ #152 Nov 6, 2024
47th President
@JeffBezos: Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has bigger opportunities. Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love.
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☑️ #151 Nov 5, 2024
Amazon Maintains Dominant Lead in the Cloud Market
@StockMKTNewz: Jeff Bezos just filed for his sale of 1.07M shares of Amazon $AMZN stock at $200.07 per share bringing in ~$213.8 Million (Pre-Tax)
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@unusual_whales (11/5/24): BREAKING: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, $AMZN, has sold over 1,000,000 $AMZN shares at $200.07 (for roughly $213 million).
@unusual_whales (11/2/24): Jeff Bezos of Amazon $AMZN sold 16,354,620 shares of $AMZN worth $3,048,501,168 today (yes, $3 billion!!!!!!!)
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