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An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-1 Amazon Interview AI

'World's Largest Battery' Soon At Google Data Center: 100-Hour Iron-Air Storage (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-1 Google Battery

Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-1 Israel Google Iran

Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2026-3-1 Google AI

Google Quantum-Proofs HTTPS (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-3-1 Google Quantum

Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic (www.wired.com)
2026-2-28 Google Amazon Nvidia

South Korea Set To Get a Fully Functioning Google Maps (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 Korea Google

Paramount agrees to acquire WBD, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B; Paramount paid a $2.8B breakup fee to Netflix (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-2-28 Netflix

'The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 Spotify

As part of the Amazon-OpenAI deal, the companies plan a “stateful runtime environment” for AWS, letting agents carry context forward to handle ongoing projects (www.axios.com)
2026-2-28 Amazon

Microsoft testing Windows 11 batch file security improvements (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-28 Microsoft

Amazon is paying ~16x Microsoft's price per OpenAI percentage point, while getting none of Microsoft's exclusives, showing the cost of being late in AI (om.co)
2026-2-28 Amazon Microsoft AI

Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-28 Google Amazon Microsoft

Netflix Ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery After Paramount's Offer is Deemed Superior (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 Netflix

Microsoft: Computer Programming Is Dying, Long Live AI Literacy (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-28 Microsoft AI programming

Amazon will invest $15B in OpenAI initially, followed by $35B if certain conditions are met; OpenAI commits to consuming ~2 GW of Trainium capacity through AWS (www.aboutamazon.com)
2026-2-28 Amazon

OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-28 Amazon Nvidia

South Korea approves Google's request to export detailed geographic data overseas, reversing a longstanding policy that made Google Maps largely nonfunctional (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-27 Korea Google

Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-27 Google AI

Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-27 Google

Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy WBD's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board deemed a revised bid by Paramount Skydance to be superior (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-27 Netflix Asset

Google Launches Nano Banana 2 Model With Faster Image Generation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-27 Google

Previously harmless Google API keys now expose Gemini AI data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-27 Google AI

The head of Intel Foundry, Kevin O'Buckley, leaves to join Qualcomm after just two years at the company; Intel Foundry will now be headed by Naga Chandrasekaran (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-2-27 Intel

Microsoft expands Windows restore to more enterprise devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-27 Microsoft

Google says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-27 Google

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation, across its products (blog.google)
2026-2-27 Google

EBay Is Laying Off About 800 Workers, 6% of Global Workforce (slashdot.org)
2026-2-27 eBay

eBay says it plans to cut ~800 jobs, or ~6% of its full-time employees, after laying off ~500 people in early 2023 and ~1,000 staff in early 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-27 eBay

Software stocks in the State Street ETF lost $1.6T in combined market cap in 2026 due to AI fears; Microsoft, AppLovin, Intuit, and Salesforce each lost $50B+ (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-27 Microsoft ETF AI Salesforce

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