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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing
At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products.
Could AI become conscious? Physicists and neuroscientists search for answers
Can artificial intelligence help humans unravel the mysteries of consciousness? It's a question that's relevant to the OpenAI controversy.
Inside the AI chip race: How a pivotal happy hour changed Amazon’s strategy in the cloud
The foundation of Amazon's AI strategy is its custom chips, part of a silicon lineage that goes back to a fateful happy hour a decade ago.
AWS unveils ‘Amazon Q’ AI assistant, jabs at Microsoft and OpenAI at re:Invent
Reporting from Las Vegas … Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky doubled down on the new era of artificial intelligence with a series of product announcements and thinly veiled but repeated criticism of Microsoft and OpenAI.
Sphere of influence? Google’s big Vegas ad buy clouds the landscape at Amazon re:Invent
Reporting from Las Vegas … Brilliant marketing move or big waste of money?
Rover to be acquired by asset manager Blackstone in $2.3B deal
Seattle pet-sitting marketplace Rover announced Wednesday that it has agreed to be acquired by asset manager Blackstone in a deal worth approximately $2.3 billion.
Broadcom laying off workers in Washington state following acquisition of VMware
Broadcom, the San Jose, Calif.-based semiconductor and software tech multinational, is laying off 158 workers in Bellevue, Wash., according to a new filing with the Washington state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system.
Holiday ‘Bliss’: Microsoft’s latest ugly sweater features iconic Windows XP desktop image
The hills are alive on this year’s ugly holiday sweater from Microsoft.
Tech Moves: Leafly board member departs; Uber Freight hires ex-Convoy comms lead
— Following the implosion of freight logistics startup Convoy last month, former employees from the heavily-funded Seattle startup are finding landing pads.
Longtime Tableau exec Francois Ajenstat joins analytics company Amplitude as product chief
After a 13-year journey with Seattle-based Tableau Software — which grew from a small startup into a public company that was eventually acquired by Salesforce — Francois Ajenstat is setting off on a new adventure.
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