Snap announced partnerships with Nvidia, Amazon Web Services and Salesforce to integrate workplace tools into its $2,200 Specs augmented reality glasses, targeting enterprise customers ahead of general availability.
Amazon Web Services announced it cannot restore access to some customer data stored at Persian Gulf data centers that were damaged during the US-Iran war in spring 2026. The facilities in UAE and Bahrain were struck by Iranian drones.
Amazon Web Services launched Pizza Bot, a self-hosted application that organizes AI task results and pending decisions into an email-style inbox, allowing users to manage background AI agent work while focusing on other tasks.
AWS Samples has published research on four context engineering mechanisms designed to address context overflow and goal loss issues that occur when AI agents perform extended tasks requiring hundreds of tool calls over long time periods.
Qualcomm announced a long-term partnership with Amazon Web Services to supply up to $60 billion worth of AI data center chips and related products. As part of the deal, Amazon received warrants to purchase approximately $4 billion in Qualcomm stock, marking Qualcomm's first major Western hyperscaler customer as it challenges Nvidia in AI infrastructure.
Novo Nordisk and Amazon Web Services have established a strategic partnership featuring a co-innovation hub in London where AWS engineers work alongside Novo Nordisk R&D teams. The collaboration deploys agentic AI, biological foundation models, and Amazon Bio Discovery platform to accelerate drug discovery workflows including target identification and therapy design.
Novo Nordisk and Amazon Web Services have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate drug discovery through artificial intelligence, establishing a new AI co-innovation hub in London that will bring together AWS engineers and AI specialists with Novo Nordisk's research and development teams.
Amazon reported $200.6 billion in Q2 revenue with AWS growing 37%, its fastest pace since 2021, but free cash flow turned negative for the first time since 2023 due to massive capital expenditures on AI data centers.
Amazon increased its annual capital spending plans following robust cloud computing sales growth, its strongest performance in more than four years, as the company argues AI investments are generating sufficient demand to justify the expenditures.
Amazon reported AWS revenue accelerated for a fifth straight quarter, with cloud computing growth easing investor concerns about AI infrastructure returns. The strong results sent shares up 12% and demonstrated clear demand for Amazon's custom AI chips.
A Go-based botnet called NadMesh, discovered in early July 2026, is systematically scanning for and exploiting exposed AI services including ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio to steal cloud credentials. The operator's dashboard claims to have collected 3,811 unique AWS keys along with Kubernetes tokens.
Meta Platforms is developing a new cloud infrastructure business to sell access to its excess AI computing power and models, positioning itself to compete with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. The announcement sent Meta shares up more than 10% in trading.
Amazon Web Services launched Bedrock AgentCore Payments on May 7, the first hyperscaler-native infrastructure enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, data feeds, and other agents in real time using stablecoins. U.S. consumers have no dispute rights when agents make these transactions.
The U.S. Department of Defense signed agreements with eight technology companies—including Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS, and Google—to deploy AI models on classified military networks as part of building an 'AI-first fighting force.' Anthropic is notably absent after refusing defense contract terms.
OpenAI and Microsoft have fundamentally restructured their partnership, eliminating the AGI clause that dictated future terms and ending Microsoft's exclusive license to OpenAI technology. OpenAI can now distribute products through any cloud provider including AWS, while Microsoft receives enhanced revenue-sharing terms.
AWS launched Agent Registry in preview and announced AgentCore, a platform designed to build, connect, and optimize AI agents at scale across enterprises. The platform enables organizations to discover, share, and reuse AI agents, tools, and agent skills.
Amazon has invested an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the OpenAI rival to $8 billion. As part of the expanded partnership, Anthropic has designated Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud and training partner, committing to train its flagship AI models primarily on AWS infrastructure including Trainium chips.
Amazon has invested an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the OpenAI rival to $8 billion. As part of the expanded partnership, Anthropic has designated Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud and training partner, committing to train its flagship AI models primarily on AWS infrastructure including Trainium chips.
