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Amazon Aims to Provide Free AI Skills Training to 2M People by 2025 with New ‘AI Ready’ Commitment

If we are going to unlock the full potential of AI to tackle the world’s most challenging problems, we need to make AI education accessible to anyone with a desire to learn. That... More

Amazon Team to Train New LLM AI Model, ‘Olympus’ (AI)

As AI is adopted by businesses around the world, the potential for it to drive global economic growth and investment opportunities is huge.... More

Amazon CodeWhisperer Now Provides Enhanced AI-generated Code Suggestions for MongoDB Developers (Silicon Angle)

CodeWhisperer is a generative artificial intelligence-powered coding assistant that was unveiled in June. It can generate code suggestions when prompted using natural language. Tho... More

Amazon CEO: AWS Made Strides With Growth, Generative AI in Q3

Amazon Web Services helped give parent Amazon a boost in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 as “AWS growth continued to stabilize” and the company also made strides in generative... More

Amazon is Turning Alexa Into a Hands-free ChatGPT (ZDNet)

Amazon's upgrade to America's favorite virtual assistant will roll out to Fire TV and other products and services.... More

Amazon: Thursday Night Football Opener Sets NFL Streaming Record (TV Tech)

TNF averaged 16.6 million viewers across all media platforms for Vikings-Eagles showdown.... More

Amazon Brings New AI-driven Features to Thursday Night Football (TechCrunch)

As Amazon’s Prime Video gears up for its second year as the exclusive rights holder to NFL’s Thursday Night Football, the streaming service hopes to give fans a more enhanced v... More

MGM’s Ottinger: Forget the Library and the Legacy, ‘Everything is Now Driven by an Obsession With Our Customers’ (Next TV)

A decade ago, Hollywood fought a war against Silicon Valley for control of the video business. Losing had consequences.... More

Amazon’s Alexa Head Says Company is ‘at the Forefront of AI’ as Chatbots Explode (CNBC)

Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa, said the e-retailer will be a major player in generative AI. Amazon said on Wednesday that more than 50... More

Amazon Studios Brings Innovation, Virtual Production Insights to May 23 HITS

An inside look at the latest production innovations, a panel covering the state of virtual production and game engines, and a Prime Video discussion around consumer privacy and sec... More

Amazon’s Biggest TV Shows Could Soon Land on Other Streaming Services (The Verge)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Hunters, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, and others could make their way to other streaming services or linear TV channels.... More

Amazon Strikes Lionsgate Pact Ahead of Re-Launching MGM Streamer in Europe (TBI Vision)

The move, which follows the launch of MGM+ in the US in January, will see Amazon roll out an MGM+ International branded streamer in selected European countries.In a bid to drive su... More

The First NFL Black Friday Game Will Stream Free on Prime Video (AA)

Prime Video will kick off the 2023 holiday season with an early present for NFL fans, providing free access to the first Black Friday NFL game—even if you're not a Prime member y... More

A Focus on Listening and Learning Set Kelly Harkness Up For Success at Amazon Studios (Prime Video Tech)

Embracing what she calls a “blue-sky opportunity,” the seasoned product manager opens up about her first months at Amazon Studios, helping to create the studio of the future.... More

5 Tech Predictions For 2023 and Beyond, According to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels

From using the cloud to redefine sports to venturing into simulated worlds and smarter energy, see what Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels shares on what's coming in the next year.... More

Amazon Launches ‘Sports Talk’ on Prime Video to Give Sports Fans 12 Hours of Live Daily Content (TechCrunch)

As Amazon tries to position itself as the go-to source for streaming live sports, the new shows will join the thousands of live sports events that air annually on Prime Video, incl... More

Amazon Says ‘Thursday Night Football’ Drove Record Prime Video Signups (Next TV)

Amazon's first exclusive regular-season presentation of NFL Thursday Night Football generated record signups over a three-hour window, comparable to shopping events such as Prime D... More

Amazon’s ‘Thursday Night Football’ Begins a New Era of Streaming for the NFL (CNBC)

To push viewers toward its NFL broadcast, which cost Amazon $1 billion per year, live games will automatically start playing when people log onto Amazon.com. The games will also be... More

Amazon Wants Everyone to Protect Themselves Online With Security PSA (Forbes)

Stephen Schmidt owns security for Amazon, everything from satellite systems to robots, delivery vehicles, self-driving cars, and “AWS boxes with smiley faces”. Here, he discuss... More

Amazon CTO Shares the Secret to Writing Great Code (Tech Republic)

If you’re lucky enough to bump into Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, on a lazy Sunday afternoon in Amsterdam, you might do what this person did and ask, “How should we think diffe... More