Category Industries

Amazon Wagers $1 Billion on AI Engineers Embedded Inside Customers

AWS is spending $1 billion on a new AI deployment team as enterprise demand grows for embedded engineers who can get agents into production.

Netflix’s Wonka reality series will use an AI-generated voice of Gene Wilder, sparking debate ahead of its Sept. 23 premiere.

Libby is adding AI content filters for ebooks and audiobooks, but OverDrive says it will rely on publisher self-labeling.

Nano Banana 2 Lite speeds up image generation and cuts costs as Google expands its generative media push into video and enterprise workflows.

DeepMind alumni EquiLibre raised a Series A at a $500 million valuation, using reinforcement learning to trade equities and crypto.

Wayve launches an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation as it expands toward Uber pilots and Nissan plans.

South Korea unveils a $900B AI infrastructure push, with Samsung and SK Hynix leading new memory fabs, HBM packaging and data centers.

Tidal’s AI music policy will label fully generated tracks and stop paying royalties, signaling a tougher streaming stance on synthetic music.

New data on the AI jobs debate suggests heavy AI spenders are hiring faster, complicating fears about broad job losses.

Omen AI raises $31 million to monitor data center cooling fluid in real time and reduce downtime as AI infrastructure expands.