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Fortune · Jul 15, 2025

Amazon is planning one of its biggest cloud investments yet as it goes big down under

AWS looks to expand data center infrastructure and clean energy network in Australia with AU$20 billion investment.

TechRadar · Jun 16, 2025

Amazon to inject $20b into Australian 'AI revolution'

Tech giant Amazon is expanding its footprint in Australia with a $20 billion investment to boost data centres with a focus on artificial intelligence.

AAP · Jun 15, 2025

Andy Jassy denies that 5-day RTO plan is a "backdoor layoff"

Jassy insists the move is about strengthening company culture.

Fortune · Nov 6, 2024

Amazon CEO denies forced return to office move is "backdoor layoff"

Andy Jassy says Amazon’s new five-day RTO policy, up from three days, isn’t a layoffs exercise.

TechRadar · Nov 6, 2024

AWS CEO estimates large city scale power consumption of future AI model training tasks — 'an individual model may require somewhere between one to 5GW of power'

AWS CEO Matt Garman estimates that future LLM training would require up to five gigawatts, and AWS is investing in alternative renewable sources to ensure it would have power available when needed.

Tom’s Hardware · Nov 3, 2024

Distraught Amazon employees send AWS chief open letter against RTO policy, calling it an ‘outright abdication’ of its role as industry leader

Hundreds of employees criticized Amazon’s leadership for making a gut decision rather than a data-driven one.

Fortune · Oct 31, 2024

Hundreds of Amazon employees petition CEO to reverse return-to-office policy

Amazon’s cloud workers have been told to return to the office full-time, but a petition is being put forward to stop that.

TechRadar · Oct 31, 2024

NVIDIA's prediction of coding's death manifests at Google: "More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers"

Google generates more than a quarter of its new code using AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers.

Windows Central · Oct 31, 2024

Anthropic shares hilarious demo of Claude AI ditching a coding prompt to look at scenic national park photos on Google: "Claude has ADHD, this is very relatable"

Anthropic has been documenting Claude 3.5 Sonnet advances, including instances where it took a break from coding to look at pictures of Yellowstone National Park and abruptly stopped a long screen-recording, ultimately losing the footage.

Windows Central · Oct 30, 2024