With a big question looming over HBO distribution in the UK, Germany and Italy as Warner Bros. Discovery rolls out Max globally, WBD’s JB Perrette floated a potential new partner in the territories: Amazon. HBO’s longtime distributor, Sky, could well stay in business with WBD, Perrette said during an appearance at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit, echoing comments last spring by international chief Gerhard Zeiler. And yet, the CEO of streaming and games ventured, “there’s also great alternatives. Amazon is great ...

Washington, D.C., Dec. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization, today announced it has been selected as a winner of the 2024 Amazon Web Services (AWS) IMAGINE Grant, a public grant opportunity open to registered charities in the United Kingdom and Ireland and registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. The grant will support RAINN’s efforts to expedite access to traum ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Anthropic are building a supercomputer that will be five times the size and have five times the performance of the one Anthropic used to train its current generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models.Dubbed “Project Rainier,” the EC2 UltraCluster of Trn2 UltraServers will use hundreds of thousands of Trainium2 chips for model training — five times the size of its previous cluster — AWS said in a Tuesday (Dec. 3) press release.The Trn2 UltraServers, which were introduced Tu ...

ToplineAmazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing arm, announced it’s launching a new AI supercomputer built from its own machine learning chips that could be one of the largest used to train AI models—and tries to rival chipmaking giant Nvidia.Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks during the WSJ Tech Live conference at the Montage ... [+] Laguna Beach in Laguna Beach, California, on October 21, 2024. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Ge ...

Key TakeawaysAmazon reported record sales and number of items sold at the start of the holiday shopping season.The online retailing giant said a majority of sales in Amazon's store came from independent sellers.Amazon also said its generative artificial intelligence features helped shoppers. It was a record-setting start to the holiday shopping season for Amazon (AMZN). The online retailing giant reported that its Black Friday Week and Cyber Monday event from Nov. 21 to Dec. 2 had all-time highs for sales a ...

AI’s surging power demand has put several big tech firms at risk of blowing through their climate commitments. But Amazon has partnered with Orbital, an AI startup, to test a new material that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — and they’re using an AWS datacenter as a first site. One of carbon capture’s biggest costs is generating enough airflow so that the sorbent material can withdraw a meaningful amount of carbon dioxide. Datacenters seem an obvious place to deploy such a technology since their ...

Once again, stocks finished the month of November on a strong note.Despite a shortened trading week, the Thanksgiving holiday ended with some fireworks as all three major US indexes closed in positive territory. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average delivered weekly gains in excess of 1%, capping a robust month and finishing at fresh record highs.Last Friday’s rally marked the best post-Thanksgiving move for the S&P 500 since 2012. The Nasdaq posted a similar weekly advance but remains just below its ...

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The artificial intelligence (AI) sector is experiencing rapid growth, with projections indicating that the global AI market could reach approximately $826.7 billion by 2030, up from $184 billion in 2024. Among the many players in this space, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Marvell Technology (NASDAQ: MRVL) stand out for their ability to leverage AI-driven innovations, making them promising bets for exponential returns in the coming years.Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stockAmazon remains a juggernaut in the tech sector, l ...