Amazon · Mon 2 Nov

Amazon develops cloud infrastructure and custom artificial intelligence chips through Amazon Web Services alongside its consumer retail and device operations. Truncated covers its cloud offerings, hardware developments, industry partnerships and corporate strategy.

Monday 2 November

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Haiku 5.5 now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US) - AWS

AI-generated summary Amazon Web Services, Inc. makes the new Anthropic Haiku 5.5 model available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon Web Services, Inc. says developers can use Haiku 5.5 to summarize and compact long context, classify and route requests, process text in bulk, and make small edits across files.

Anthropic Amazon Claude Model Releases Long Context

Infrastructure & Hardware nytimes.com

Inside Anthropic’s Hunt for A.I. Computing Power

AI-generated summary Anthropic has launched dozens of contracts with companies including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and SpaceX to secure more computing power for artificial intelligence. The company needs this computing power to develop new models and deliver products such as the Claude chatbot to businesses and consumers.

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Amazon says more than 400M customers have used Alexa for Shopping in the last 12 months

AI-generated summary Amazon announced that Alexa for Shopping is available with more than 100 new capabilities ahead of the holidays. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says that customers who use Alexa for Shopping are spending 50 percent more than those who do not.

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Infrastructure & Hardware Fortune

While Americans turn against data centers, Brazil offers tax breaks and cheap power, representing a potential ‘release valve’ for U.S. constraints

Lula, who won reelection to the Brazilian presidency, signed REDATA into law in September.

AI-generated summary President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva released a law cutting taxes on qualifying data center equipment to make building them less expensive. The government hopes that bringing more computing capacity into the country will help Brazilian businesses develop AI products and rely less on foreign services.

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Infrastructure & Hardware InfoQ

AWS Capacity Largely Sold Out Through 2027, With On Demand Headroom Reserved

AI-generated summary Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that AWS capacity is largely sold out through 2027, with portions of 2028 already allocated. The company continues to reserve headroom for On Demand, EC2 and Bedrock despite the high demand for committed capacity.

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For JPMorgan, Amazon, fighting AI bots like Meta Muse may not be a winning long-term strategy

AI-generated summary Amazon made available its Buy for Me feature as major companies and retailers increasingly block outside artificial intelligence personal agents like Meta Muse. An Amazon spokesperson says that third-party applications making purchases on behalf of customers should operate openly and respect service provider decisions about participation.

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