Following the conclusion of its corporate restructuring last week, which included waiving Microsoft’s right of first refusal to be its exclusive compute provider, OpenAI has moved quickly to diversify its cloud infrastructure. The AI giant has just finalized a new, massive multi-year partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), reportedly valued at $38 billion. Read: Nvidia…
The announcement comes less than week after Amazon laid off 14,000 people. OpenAI has signed a new deal valued at $38bn with Amazon that will allow the artificial intelligence giant to run AI workloads across Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure. The seven-year deal announced on Monday is the first big AI push for the…
Stephanie HegartyGlobal population correspondent Fenamad Tomas Anez Dos Santos was working in a small clearing in the Peruvian Amazon, when he heard footsteps approaching in the forest. He realised he was surrounded, and froze. “One was standing, aiming with an arrow,” he says. “And somehow he noticed I was here and I started to run.”…
Amazon has unveiled significantly expanded plans and shared initial renderings for its advanced nuclear energy project in Washington State, its home headquarters. Read: Apple bumps entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro to M5 chip The planned facility, now officially named the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, will be built near Energy Northwest’s Columbia Generating Station outside of Richland,…
James Hickman, AWS country manager, South Africa. The SOLA Group has achieved early commercial operations for the Springbok Solar Power Project, Africa’s first multi-buyer, energy wheeling facility and the company’s most significant project to date. Delivered ahead of schedule, the 195MW solar photovoltaic plant marks a major milestone in large-scale renewable energy procurement and a…
Amazon has suspended its drone delivery service in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area of Arizona following an incident on Wednesday where two of its MK30 drones crashed into a construction crane. Read: Sony ULT Field 5 Review: ULTimately Based The crash occurred around 10:00 AM local time in Tolleson, Arizona, approximately two miles from…
Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company duped users into paying for Prime memberships, the regulatory agency announced Thursday. The surprise settlement comes as Amazon and the FTC were just three days into the trial in a Seattle federal court. Opening arguments in the case occurred Tuesday, but…
Third-year students pursuing a degree in IT and computers are invited to apply for the Amazon (Software Development Engineer) Recruitment Bursary, for the 2026 academic year. Bursaries will be awarded for studies related to the following fields (Undergraduate and Honours): Artificial Intelligence Computer Engineering Computer Science Data Science Information Systems Information Technology Machine Learning Software…
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP® is now a supported external storage option for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon EVS, now generally available, is a new AWS service that allows users to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly…
Regulatory obstacles in South Africa could cost Starlink its usual first-mover advantage, potentially allowing Amazon’s Project Kuiper to enter the local market concurrently or even sooner. Kuiper, which began launching satellites in April, plans beta testing soon, with a commercial rollout expected in 2026. Amazon representatives have reportedly met with local telecoms ahead of this…
