UK Launches Formal Probe into Amazon's $4 Billion Anthropic Deal
The CMA will spend the next 40 working days (until early October) determining if Amazon's investment creates a "relevant merger situation" that could harm competition within the U.K.
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Amazon Releases Titan Image Generator v2 with Enhanced Creative Controls
The standout additions to Titan Image Generator v2 include image conditioning, color palette control, background removal, and subject consistency.
Amazon Hires Adept AI Founders, Licenses Their Tech
David Luan, Adept's co-founder and CEO, is jumping ship to lead Amazon's "AGI Autonomy" team.
Amazon Considering Premium AI-Powered Alexa for $5 to $10 per Month
The current free version, “Classic Alexa,” will remain available, but a premium tier powered by advanced AI capabilities will be offered for a monthly fee.
Amazon Commits $230 Million to Invest in Generative AI Startups
This comes as Amazon seeks to catch up with Google and Microsoft, and further secure its foothold as a key player in the highly competitive generative AI landscape.
Amazon Using Generative AI to Check Packages for Defects Before They Ship
When a defect is identified, the system isolates the product to prevent it from being shipped. Amazon associates then review the flagged items and determine the best course of action, such as discounting it for resale on Amazon's Second Chance platform, donating it, or finding another use for it.
Amazon Q Developer is Now Generally Available
In addition to generating code, Amazon Q can autonomously perform comprehensive tasks such as feature implementation, documentation, refactoring, and software upgrades.
Amazon Unveils Powerful Generative AI Tools for Businesses: Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q in QuickSight
The assistant connects to over 40 commonly used business tools, such as wikis, intranets, Atlassian, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, and Amazon S3, enabling users to access all their data regardless of where it resides in their organization.
Amazon Maestro Will Let Listeners Make Playlists With AI
This follows a similar introduction by Spotify, which recently rolled out its AI Playlist feature to Premium users in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Amazon Appoints Andrew Ng to Board to Bolster AI Leadership
The appointment comes as Amazon CEO Andy Jassy emphasized the transformative potential of generative AI in his recent shareholder letter, suggesting it could be the company's next major growth pillar alongside its established Marketplace, Prime, and AWS businesses.
Amazon Completes Massive $4 Billion Investment in AI Startup Anthropic
Amazon's $4 billion investment in Anthropic marks a significant milestone in the company's AI strategy and underscores the growing importance of generative AI in shaping the future of technology and business.
6 Ways AWS and NVIDIA Are Partnering to Drive Generative AI Innovation
The partnership aims to provide customers with the most secure and advanced infrastructure, software, and services to unlock new AI capabilities.
Amazon's AI Can Create a Product Listing From a Website URL
This initiative is part of Amazon's broader effort to use AI to reduce the workload on sellers while simultaneously improving the quality of product listings.
Amazon Launches Rufus, Your Personal AI Shopping Assistant
The assistant draws on Amazon's extensive catalog data, customer reviews, and Q&As as well as information from across the web.
Amazon's New AI Tool "Diffuse to Choose" Lets You Virtually Try Products In Any Setting
For consumers, it means the ability to place any item from an online store into their own living space or personal context, seeing how it fits and looks in real-time.
Amazon Bets on AI to Enhance Pharmacy Experience
Powered by multiple, pre-trained models from Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMake, the company believes AI can help set a new industry standard for convenience and accessibility.
You Can Now Create AI-Generated Art On Fire TV Devices
The new AI Art feature is part of the Ambient Experience that aims to turn the TV into a smart visual hub displaying useful glancable information when not streaming shows.
Amazon is Using AI to Make Shopping for Fashion Online Easier
4 AI-powered innovations—personalized size recommendations, review highlights, re-imagined size charts, and fit insights—are helping customers shop with confidence.
Amazon Launches Titan Image Generator, its Text to Image Model
Titan Image Generator was trained on diverse datasets to improve accuracy and inclusivity, while building in safeguards against generating toxic or biased content.
Amazon Unveils Amazon Q, A Generative AI Assistant Tailored For The Workplace
Amazon Q connects to a company's existing data sources, code repositories, and systems to gain an understanding of its business. It can then synthesize this information to provide employees with tailored, relevant recommendations and actions.
AWS and NVIDIA Partner on New Generative AI Supercomputing Infrastructure, Software, and Services
A centerpiece of the announcement is AWS becoming the first major cloud provider to offer NVIDIA's GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips.
AWS Unveils Next-Gen Chips to Power Cloud AI and Compute
The new Graviton4 and Trainium2 are tailored to address the growing demands of a diverse range of cloud workloads, including machine learning (ML) training and generative AI applications.
Amazon Unveils Palm-Based Identity Service for Enterprise Access Control
The new service addresses the inherent vulnerabilities in traditional authentication methods like badges, fobs, PINs, and passwords, which are often susceptible to loss, theft, or duplication.
Amazon Lex Now Provides Conversational FAQ Handling Using Generative AI
By leveraging rapid advances in generative AI, Amazon Lex now offers simpler bot building along with more capable, human-like conversational experiences.