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Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad leaving; Infrastructure exec Peter DeSantis to lead unified AI group

Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad is leaving at year’s end, according to a memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Peter DeSantis, a 27-year veteran who has led AWS infrastructure, will oversee a new organization combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing. Read More

AI goes from tool to teammate: Amazon Web Services SVP Colleen Aubrey on the dawn of agentic work

AI “teammates,” faster product development, and a pivot in Amazon’s applied-AI strategy: AWS SVP Colleen Aubrey joins the GeekWire Podcast to explain how agentic systems are reshaping how Amazon builds software. Read More

Podcast

Amazon’s new frontiers: Robotaxis, ultrafast deliveries, AI teammates

Amazon is experimenting again. This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we break down our scoop on Amazon’s new ultrafast delivery service, ride along in a Zoox robotaxi on the Las Vegas Strip, and talk with AWS SVP Colleen Aubrey about Amazon’s push into applied AI and the rise of AI “teammates.” Read More

Amazon’s surprise indie hit: Kiro launches broadly in bid to reshape AI-powered software development

Amazon’s Kiro development tool is launching broadly with new features and a unique branding strategy, as the company pushes deeper into the booming market for AI-assisted software development. Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names SVP; AWS exec departs for startup; WatchGuard’s new CEO

Smartsheet names a new SVP, an AWS executive departs for an agentic AI startup, WatchGuard appoints a CEO and other tech moves. Read More

OpenAI’s $38B cloud deal with Amazon takes ChatGPT maker further beyond Microsoft

In a major expansion of its cloud partnerships, OpenAI signed a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services to train and run future AI models, reflecting both the scale of the AI boom and the increasingly complex ties among the industry’s biggest players. Read More

Amazon’s Anthropic investment boosts its quarterly profits by $9.5B

Amazon’s third-quarter profit jumped 38% to $21.2 billion, boosted in part by a $9.5 billion paper gain on its investment in AI startup Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot. Read More

‘It’s culture’: Amazon CEO says massive corporate layoffs were about agility — not AI or cost-cutting

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s latest big round of layoffs — about 14,000 corporate jobs — wasn’t triggered by financial strain or artificial intelligence replacing workers, but rather a push to stay nimble. Read More

Amazon layoffs reaction: ‘Thought I was a top performer but guess I’m expendable’

On social media and elsewhere, impacted employees and others reacted to Amazon’s decision to cut 14,000 corporate and tech workers across numerous divisions. Read More

Amazon nails the fundamentals with first NBA broadcast — with a sports betting twist

Amazon marked a major milestone with its growing sports portfolio on Friday, broadcasting its first-ever live-streamed NBA game. Read More

How the AWS outage happened: Amazon blames rare software bug and ‘faulty automation’ for massive glitch

A detailed explanation of this week’s Amazon Web Services outage, released Thursday morning, confirms that it wasn’t a hardware glitch… Read More

The AWS outage is a warning about the risks of digital dependance and AI infrastructure

In this recent outage there’s a pointer to where we should be looking proactively to apply this lesson: generative AI. Read More

Amazon customers report delivery delays after major AWS outage

Amazon’s e-commerce customers are experiencing unusual delivery delays following the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday — suggesting that the cloud glitch has impacted the company’s own operations more than than previously reported. Read More

AWS outage affects Ticketmaster for pivotal Mariners vs. Blue Jays playoff game in Toronto

The effects of the massive AWS outage reached the sports world on Monday. Ticketmaster was dealing with ticket management issues… Read More

AWS outage was not due to a cyberattack — but shows potential for ‘far worse’ damage

The outage serves as warning sign for a potentially more disruptive situation and reflects “tech monoculture” in a global infrastructure. Read More

Amazon takes on Microsoft and Google in the workplace with new ‘Quick Suite’ business AI platform

Amazon Web Services is debuting Amazon Quick Suite, a new agentic AI platform that automates business tasks and connects data across company systems — a direct challenge to Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini in the digital workplace. Read More

Amazon’s ‘model factory’ is training the next generation of AI on the tech giant’s own business

Amazon’s top AI scientist Rohit Prasad outlined a “model factory” approach and shift toward AI agents at Madrona’s IA Summit in Seattle. The strategy uses Amazon’s own internal systems as reinforcement learning gyms to accelerate the development of its Nova models and enterprise AI tools. Read More

NBA taps Amazon Web Services to develop new basketball stats as Amazon deepens sports push

Amazon is not only streaming NBA games for the first time this season — it’s also aiming to establish a new… Read More

Microsoft rolls out OpenAI’s GPT-5 — and Elon Musk rolls out the commentary

The release of GPT-5 on Thursday gave Microsoft an opportunity to spotlight its exclusive cloud API partnership with OpenAI —… Read More

Amazon will offer OpenAI’s open-weight models, sidestepping Microsoft via Apache 2.0 license

OpenAI released its first open-weight AI models in more than five years, and Amazon quickly said they will be available… Read More

Podcast

Have we hit ‘Peak AI’? Microsoft, Amazon, and a pivotal week for Seattle tech

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft soars past Wall Street expectations, briefly hitting a $4 trillion valuation, while Amazon… Read More

Amazon Q2 earnings preview: AI bets, cloud growth, and tariff changes in the spotlight

Amazon’s infrastructure investments and cloud business will go under the microscope Thursday when the company reports second-quarter financial results —… Read More

Podcast

Inside Amazon’s AI deployment team: Lessons from the front lines of enterprise adoption

On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we dive into enterprise AI adoption with Francessca Vasquez, a vice president at… Read More

Amazon cuts hundreds of AWS cloud jobs after strategic review, says AI wasn’t the main factor

Amazon confirmed Thursday morning that it’s cutting jobs within its Amazon Web Services cloud division after a review of its… Read More

Amazon gives $100M boost to AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, betting on agentic AI

Amazon is investing another $100 million in its AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, aiming to help companies go from experimenting… Read More

As data center demand soars, Amazon expands use of recycled waste water to cool its cloud

Amazon Web Services is more than halfway to its 2030 goal of being “water positive” — meaning it replenishes more… Read More

Generative AI tops cybersecurity in 2025 tech budget priorities, new AWS study finds

Generative AI will surpass cybersecurity in many corporate tech budgets this year — with 45% of global IT leaders naming… Read More

Amazon deepens Anthropic ties with equity conversion, adding billions to Q1 profit

A portion of Amazon’s investment in AI startup Anthropic converted from notes into stock in the first quarter — triggering… Read More

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy gives measured take on tariffs, says company could emerge stronger

“Obviously, none of us knows exactly where tariffs will settle or when.” That was the opening line of Amazon CEO… Read More

Amazon earnings preview: Cloud growth, AI demand, and tariff risks in focus

Amazon is set to report first-quarter earnings after the market closes on Thursday, May 1, offering a fresh look at… Read More