Intel CEO talks about the future in letter to the employees
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AWS deal, U.S. Secure Enclave, Intel Foundry, and focus on x86

Intel's board members and CEO, Pat Gelsinger sent out and shared a letter to the employees that outlines the future of the company, revealing a bit more details and trying to ease off the pressure that was seen after the company's Q2 earnings report.

Oracle goes “all in” for AI surveillance
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Tuesday, 17 September 2024 10:11

Oracle goes “all in” for AI surveillance


Just when you think the company could not be more popular

Just when you think Oracle could not become more popular with the great unwashed, its cofounder Larry Ellison decides to get the company involved with mass AI surveillance.

Amazon releases mysterious Snow
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Thursday, 08 June 2023 11:47

Amazon releases mysterious Snow


You know nothing about Snow

Amazon Web Services has announced a new member of its "Snow" family of on-prem hardware -- but the machine’s specs appear not to be available to eyes outside the US military.

Amazon wants to invest $12.7 billion in Indian clouds
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In time for the monsoon

Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud business in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said.

Cloud sales starting to slow
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Monday, 24 April 2023 10:15

Cloud sales starting to slow


Analysts expecting the slowest growth for a decade

Demand for cloud-computing services is slowing and Microsoft and Amazon are expected to report the slowest revenue growth for their cloud-computing businesses since the firms started breaking out performance last decade.

Amazon releases its own AI
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Friday, 14 April 2023 11:35

Amazon releases its own AI


Amazon Bedrock is a place right out of history

Amazon is releasing a ChatGPT and DALL-E rival it calls Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon wants to put its cloud into space
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Monday, 05 December 2022 11:59

Amazon wants to put its cloud into space


Don't have to worry about boundaries 

Amazon is thinking about shoving some of its cloud into space. 

Microsoft promises to fix unfair licenses in the EU
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Worried that the EU might rain on its cloud

Microsoft said that it would fix its unfair licensing terms in the EU before it is taken to task for making it prohibitively expensive to run Windows and Office workloads on non-Azure cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. 

Amazon extends server life
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Thursday, 05 May 2022 12:46

Amazon extends server life


We can get another year out of them if we give them golden apples 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it will extend the useful life of the servers powering its cloud from four years to five, and its networking equipment from five years to six.

NSA gives cloud computing contract to Amazon
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Return of the Jedi?

The US National Security Agency has re-awarded a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Amazon Web Services after it was forced to review the contract.