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Amazon gives Wall Street mixed financial picture in earnings report
E-commerce company posts high cloud computing sales but gives a cautious sales forecast for the fourth quarter Amazon offered a…
How the UK Amazon Quick User Group grew in 2026
AI summary A UK community of Amazon Quick users held three quarterly meetups in 2026 at Amazon's Shoreditch office in London, attracting over 150 people in total. Sessions mixed customer talks, product updates and a 75-minute hands-on workshop using tools such as Quick Flows and Quick Automate. Carsa said a single governed data layer let it cut half its dashboards and shrink recurring tasks from 45 minutes to 5. Swiss firm Propulse Lab reported request handling dropping from 7 minutes to 70 seconds, with 80 percent of routine workflows automated.
As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience
As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.
Rivian expands joint venture with VW to include AI assistant
Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.
What Google’s Search Ad Revenue Numbers Signal For AI Search Spend
AI summary Alphabet's share price fell roughly 13% on Thursday after third-quarter figures showed Search revenue growing more slowly while AI investment stayed heavy. The company reported $51.36 billion in capital expenditures for the quarter and free cash flow of minus $9.07 billion. Marketers such as Max Anderson argue advertisers are paying more for weaker traffic, citing looser keyword matching and campaigns spending double their daily budgets, though Google's published rules permit such daily overspending. Advertisers also cannot isolate AI Mode results, since Google merges them with standard campaign reporting.
Building intent-driven UI testing with Amazon Nova Act
Epsilon's Agentic Platform team delivers UI testing as a managed, multi-tenant service built on Amazon Nova Act and Amazon…
Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr
Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The…
Podcast: Flock CEO Says the Backlash Isn’t Real
Leaked audio of Flock's CEO, why Marisa Mayer can't keep pretending, and a CashApp nightmare.
The Future Is for Everyone: Meta and CNIB Partner to Support Canadians Who Are Blind, Deafblind or Have Low Vision
AI summary Meta is partnering with CNIB, a Canadian non-profit founded in 1918, so that blind, Deafblind and low-vision people can try out AI glasses. Meta's funding will support community consultations, training led by local peer champions, accessible learning resources and feedback sent on to its product teams. People enrolled in Come to Work, CNIB's employment program, will also get AI glasses from the company. Angela Bonfanti, who heads CNIB, said the partnership allows the community's expertise to flow straight into what Meta builds.
US investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been…
Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs
To anyone listening closely to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been saying over the past couple of years, this week felt…
Insurance tech just got a $2B AI deal. Are our rates cooked?
Guidewire is acquiring AI underwriting startup hyperexponential for $1.7B in cash, with the total deal potentially reaching…
Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.
Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists and subscriptions and update delivery instructions
The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage…
Google's AI search problem finally shows up in the earnings report, some investors believe
AI summary Google's stock fell by as much as ten percent after third-quarter search revenue rose about 12 percent, below the 15 percent analysts had forecast. Executive Philipp Schindler said rapidly growing AI mode queries weighed on results because they earn less than classic search. Cloud revenue jumped 103 percent from a year earlier to $30.7 billion, and quarterly capital spending reached $51.4 billion, with 2026 guidance held at $195 billion to $205 billion and a higher figure planned for 2027. CEO Sundar Pichai said the Gemini app now has one billion users.
Being early may buy an AI agent startup time, but it doesn’t guarantee a lasting business
My blunt six-month prediction: more general-purpose agent startups will discover that their early lead is temporary. Shipping…
Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in…
Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row
Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another…
Creating AI value with enterprise context
Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer…
Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source…
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