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Amazon Plans to Introduce Premium Tier of AI-Powered Alexa Gadgets
Amazon is stepping up its AI game with the next line of Alexa gadgets. The introduction of tonier hardware, which will coexist with lower- and mid-priced products, is a bid to give consumers more choice while generating new excitement for an Alexa franchise that has lost luster in recent years.
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"Once In A Lifetime Opportunity": Amazon To Spend $100 Billion On AI, Cloud
Amazon on Thursday reported its fourth-quarter net income doubled to $20 billion, with net sales rising 10 percent to $187.8 billion.
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Salesforce Said to Cut 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI
Salesforce is announcing lay-offs as it prepares to enter a new fiscal year. More than 1,000 roles will be affected and displaced workers will be able to apply for other jobs internally. The company has also been keeping a closer eye on maintaining profit margins after pressure from activist investors in 2023.
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Ex-Amazon, Microsoft Techie Reveals How He Retired At 39 With $3.5 Million Fortune
Jamal Robinson, a former techie who worked with Amazon and Microsoft, recently revealed that he retired at 39 and has successfully managed to amass a fortune of $3.5 million (about Rs 30 crore) after saving 90% of his salary for years.
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says
The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.
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Best Deals on AI PCs During the Amazon Great Republic Day Sale
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 will conclude in two days on January 19. The e-commerce giant’s first sale of the year began on January 13 and before it ends, individuals can get discounts on a wide range of products. During the sale, buyers will be able to find deals on the recently launched artificial intelligence (AI) PCs and Copilot+ PCs ...
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Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025: Best Deals on Gaming Consoles, Controllers and Games
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 brings discounts, bank benefits, and other offers on a wide range of consumer electronics, from smartphones and tablets to gaming consoles and televisions. The sale commenced on January 13 and will end on January 19. So, if you’re planning to invest in a new gaming console or want to upgrade your existing one, ...
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Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025: Best Deals on Premium Laptops
Products from brands such as HP, Microsoft and Apple are available with price cuts, bank offers and coupon discounts in the Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025. Apple's MacBook Pro with M3 chip under the hood is listed for Rs. 3,69,900, down from the original price of Rs. 3,99,900. Similarly, the Asus Zenbook 14 is selling for Rs. 87,990, ins...
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Amazon Paused Rollout of Microsoft Office for a Year After Hacks
Amazon paused the rollout after Microsoft discovered a Russia-linked hacker group had gained access to some of its employees’ email accounts. After conducting its own analysis of the software, Amazon asked for changes to guard against unauthorised access and create a more detailed accounting of user activity in the apps
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Google Said to Have Asked FTC to Break Up Microsoft's Cloud Deal With OpenAI
Google has asked the US government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers. The conversation reportedly happened after the US Federal Trade Commission asked Google about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation.
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Amazon AGI SF Lab Focused on Developing New Capabilities of AI Agents Established
Amazon announced setting up a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory on Monday. Dubbed Amazon AGI SF Lab, the new research lab will be based in San Francisco and focus on developing AI agents with real-world applications. The Seattle-based tech recently hired several top executives from the startup Adept AI Labs and will be seeding the new div...
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Amazon Announces New Slate Of AI Models To Rival Meta, Google, Microsoft
The announcements mark Amazon's biggest step toward combating a reputation that it had been caught flat-footed in developing AI applications as competitors sped ahead
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming in October
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be playable with Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) for Game Pass Ultimate members at launch, Microsoft announced Monday. In addition to Black Ops 6, last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Activision’s Battle Royale title, Call of Duty: Warzone, will also get Cloud Gaming support on the same day.
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Nvidia's Forecast Dampens AI Enthusiasm in Other Tech Stocks
Nvidia dropped almost seven percent and lost $200 billion (roughly Rs.16,77,898 crore) in stock market value after it forecast third-quarter gross margins that could miss market estimates and revenue that was largely in line. A handful of other AI-related companies shed around $100 billion (roughly Rs. 8,38,948 crore) in combined value.
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Amazon Set To Join Big Tech's Spending Surge As AI Race Heats Up
As a result of the spending increase, Amazon's gross profit margin growth is expected to have slowed to 1.3% in the April-June quarter, compared with 2.6% in the previous quarter and an average of 2.7% over the past two years.
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Amazon Plans to Introduce Premium Tier of AI-Powered Alexa Gadgets
Amazon is stepping up its AI game with the next line of Alexa gadgets. The introduction of tonier hardware, which will coexist with lower- and mid-priced products, is a bid to give consumers more choice while generating new excitement for an Alexa franchise that has lost luster in recent years.
-
"Once In A Lifetime Opportunity": Amazon To Spend $100 Billion On AI, Cloud
Amazon on Thursday reported its fourth-quarter net income doubled to $20 billion, with net sales rising 10 percent to $187.8 billion.
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Salesforce Said to Cut 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI
Salesforce is announcing lay-offs as it prepares to enter a new fiscal year. More than 1,000 roles will be affected and displaced workers will be able to apply for other jobs internally. The company has also been keeping a closer eye on maintaining profit margins after pressure from activist investors in 2023.
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Ex-Amazon, Microsoft Techie Reveals How He Retired At 39 With $3.5 Million Fortune
Jamal Robinson, a former techie who worked with Amazon and Microsoft, recently revealed that he retired at 39 and has successfully managed to amass a fortune of $3.5 million (about Rs 30 crore) after saving 90% of his salary for years.
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says
The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.
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Best Deals on AI PCs During the Amazon Great Republic Day Sale
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 will conclude in two days on January 19. The e-commerce giant’s first sale of the year began on January 13 and before it ends, individuals can get discounts on a wide range of products. During the sale, buyers will be able to find deals on the recently launched artificial intelligence (AI) PCs and Copilot+ PCs ...
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Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025: Best Deals on Gaming Consoles, Controllers and Games
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 brings discounts, bank benefits, and other offers on a wide range of consumer electronics, from smartphones and tablets to gaming consoles and televisions. The sale commenced on January 13 and will end on January 19. So, if you’re planning to invest in a new gaming console or want to upgrade your existing one, ...
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Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025: Best Deals on Premium Laptops
Products from brands such as HP, Microsoft and Apple are available with price cuts, bank offers and coupon discounts in the Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025. Apple's MacBook Pro with M3 chip under the hood is listed for Rs. 3,69,900, down from the original price of Rs. 3,99,900. Similarly, the Asus Zenbook 14 is selling for Rs. 87,990, ins...
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Amazon Paused Rollout of Microsoft Office for a Year After Hacks
Amazon paused the rollout after Microsoft discovered a Russia-linked hacker group had gained access to some of its employees’ email accounts. After conducting its own analysis of the software, Amazon asked for changes to guard against unauthorised access and create a more detailed accounting of user activity in the apps
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Google Said to Have Asked FTC to Break Up Microsoft's Cloud Deal With OpenAI
Google has asked the US government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers. The conversation reportedly happened after the US Federal Trade Commission asked Google about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation.
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Amazon AGI SF Lab Focused on Developing New Capabilities of AI Agents Established
Amazon announced setting up a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory on Monday. Dubbed Amazon AGI SF Lab, the new research lab will be based in San Francisco and focus on developing AI agents with real-world applications. The Seattle-based tech recently hired several top executives from the startup Adept AI Labs and will be seeding the new div...
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Amazon Announces New Slate Of AI Models To Rival Meta, Google, Microsoft
The announcements mark Amazon's biggest step toward combating a reputation that it had been caught flat-footed in developing AI applications as competitors sped ahead
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming in October
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be playable with Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) for Game Pass Ultimate members at launch, Microsoft announced Monday. In addition to Black Ops 6, last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Activision’s Battle Royale title, Call of Duty: Warzone, will also get Cloud Gaming support on the same day.
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Nvidia's Forecast Dampens AI Enthusiasm in Other Tech Stocks
Nvidia dropped almost seven percent and lost $200 billion (roughly Rs.16,77,898 crore) in stock market value after it forecast third-quarter gross margins that could miss market estimates and revenue that was largely in line. A handful of other AI-related companies shed around $100 billion (roughly Rs. 8,38,948 crore) in combined value.
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Amazon Set To Join Big Tech's Spending Surge As AI Race Heats Up
As a result of the spending increase, Amazon's gross profit margin growth is expected to have slowed to 1.3% in the April-June quarter, compared with 2.6% in the previous quarter and an average of 2.7% over the past two years.
