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“Stateful systems are incredibly hard to build”: How Perplexity thinks about AI agent sandboxes
Sandboxes for AI agents may feel like a solved problem. After all, projects like Firecracker, the open-source microVM technology AWS built The post “Stateful systems are incredibly hard to build”: How Perplexity thinks about AI agent sandboxes appeared first on The New Stack .
Big Tech Turmoil Clouds the A.I. Earnings Picture
The Nasdaq 100 is flirting with correction territory as investors brace for earnings reports from Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.
Amazon, Meta and Microsoft face skeptical investors this week after Google report sparked sell-off
Alphabet's free cash flow has turned negative, and the company lifted its capital spending forecast. Slower-growing cloud rivals report this week.
Industry, academia partner to drive AI skills pipeline
Vodacom, the University of Johannesburg and Amazon Web Services join forces to address SA’s growing demand for job-ready AI and data science skills.
AWS Launches Amazon GuardDuty Investigation Agent to Automate Threat Triage
AWS released a public preview of the GuardDuty investigation agent, which correlates findings, 90-day activity logs, and resource topologies into structured reports with risk ratings, confidence scores, and MITRE ATT&CK classification. It is reachable through the AWS MCP Server, so investigations can run from agentic tooling. Preview quotas cap usage at 10 investigations per account per day. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Anzeige: DJI-Smartphone-Gimbal jetzt zum neuen Bestpreis nur noch 109 Euro bei Amazon
Stabile Videos, smartes Tracking und integriertes Licht: Der DJI Osmo Mobile 8 ist bei Amazon zum neuen Bestpreis zu haben. ( Smartphone , DJI )
Amazon is investing in the Lean Focused Research Organization
As AI agents take on higher-stakes decisions, Lean programming language makes it possible to mathematically prove they will behave safely.
Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ Series Sets October Release Date, Drops Horrifying New Trailer
Amazon Prime Video has released a new teaser trailer for “Carrie,” the TV adaptation of Stephen King’s classic horror novel. All eight episodes of the series will debut on Oct. 7. The series is a “bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion with […]
Trump vows to investigate EU over fining of US tech companies
The US president says fines against Google, as well as Apple, Meta and Amazon, should be "entirely reversed."
Bond market anxiety is growing over AI capex budgets
Google, Amazon and Meta are seeing credit spreads widen as fixed-income investors demand more reward on companies they lend to.
AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare now all offer agent sandboxes. None built them the same way.
Google Cloud announced it had put Cloud Run sandboxes into public preview earlier this month at WeAreDevelopers World Congress in The post AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare now all offer agent sandboxes. None built them the same way. appeared first on The New Stack .
Airbus Makes Protection from Extraterritorial Law a Scored Criterion in Its Cloud Tender
Airbus selected Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider after a tender that scored protection against non-European extraterritorial legislation alongside technical capability. Airbus frames it as complementing multi-cloud, not exiting AWS. Practitioners note the pattern is spreading past hyperscalers to small US SaaS vendors, and that sovereignty claims still require verifiable controls. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Amazon cracks down on use of AI images by sellers after New York law
A recently enacted New York law mandates that companies disclose when an ad includes a "synthetic performer" in place of a human actor.
Study finds spike in delivery app drivers, Amazon workers receiving federal benefits
A new study released on Wednesday finds that dependence on food stamps and Medicaid for gig economy workers has spiked since the start of the pandemic. A U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that the number of Amazon workers relying on federal assistance programs has tripled between February 2020 and September 2025. Walmart and...
Tesla earnings, Amazon layoffs, Kevin Warsh's favorite phrases and more in Morning Squawk
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
Amazon cuts some jobs in its artificial general intelligence unit
Amazon's AGI unit has released a set of AI models, called Nova, and also includes groups working on silicon and quantum computing.
Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry little commercial weight. We test that assumption with full-text AI detection across 14,419 self-published genre-fiction books sold on Amazon from 2023 to 2026, matched to daily sales records through June 2026. None of these books disclose whether or not they contain AI-produced content. We find that books for which we
13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools
A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to reporting by Financial Times. This happened in December after engineers deployed the Kiro AI coding tool to make c ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7556)
Amazon Reportedly Pins the Blame for AI-Caused Outage on Humans
When Amazon Web Services got hit by a 13-hour outage in December, it wasn't because a person tripped over a cord. According to a report from the Financial Times, several anonymous Amazon employees said that the outage was the fault of Kiro, ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7557)
Correcting the Financial Times report about AWS, Kiro, and AI
We want to address the inaccuracies in the Financial Times' reporting yesterday. The brief service interruption they reported on was the result of user error---specifically misconfigured access controls---not AI as the story claims. The di ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7558)
How an AI Bot Named Kiro Took Down AWS Cost Explorer
In December 2025, Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour outage that started with an AI bot making a decision. Not a human engineer. An AI coding tool called Kiro decided the best way to fix a problem was to delete and recreate a product ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1442#7563)
How AWS averted an AI supply chain disaster
Amazon Web Services recently averted a potential software supply chain disaster when it discovered that malicious code had been inserted into an open-source repository accessed by a generative AI-powered assistant widely used to supercharge ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1158#7564)
ACMA pledge scheme helps decimate dodgy device listings
Amazon Australia, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree and other audited.
Zoox recalls self-driving cars because they may not detect smoke
WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - Amazon.com self-driving car unit Zoox said Friday it will recall its fleet of 105 autonomous vehicles because they may not detect heavy smoke and could impede emergency personnel. Last week, the top U.S. au ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1602#7534)
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are converging on the same enterprise agent architecture
Over the past nine months, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have each introduced or renamed an enterprise agent platform. And all The post Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are converging on the same enterprise agent architecture appeared first on The New Stack .
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are converging on the same enterprise agent architecture
Over the past nine months, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have each introduced or renamed an enterprise agent platform. And all The post Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are converging on the same enterprise agent architecture appeared first on The New Stack .
Jeff Bezos and UK government invest in £2bn British startup CuspAI
Company aims to develop AI software that cuts research times and use of rare metals in chipmakers’ supply chains Business live – latest updates Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and the UK government have invested in a £2bn British artificial intelligence startup that is aiming to become the “search engine for rare materials” that accelerates the next wave of technological breakthroughs. The Cambridge-based CuspAI has raised $450m (£330m) in funding from investors including Bezos and the government’
Shocked AWS customers receive astronomical bill estimates
Billing estimate engine update goes wrong.
Self-healing GPU nodes in Kubernetes: What we learned building the EKS node monitoring agent
When you run Kubernetes at the scale we do on Amazon EKS, nodes break constantly. GPUs fall off the PCIe The post Self-healing GPU nodes in Kubernetes: What we learned building the EKS node monitoring agent appeared first on The New Stack .
Le kit complet GoPro HERO13 Black avec deux batterie est à son prix le plus bas sur Amazon
[Deal du jour] Envie de filmer vos voyages cet été ? Pourquoi ne pas investir dans du bon matériel qui vous durera longtemps, comme l'action cam HERO13 Black dans son pack Creator en promotion.
An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A unit pricing error in the AWS Billing Console’s estimated billing computation subsystem was the cause, Amazon confirmed. One Reddit user whose charges totalled $0.19 last month received an estimated bill of nearly $2.5 billion. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon’s Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove into heavy smoke at an active fire scene
Amazon’s Zoox voluntarily recalled software in 105 of its robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle drove into heavy smoke at an active emergency fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20. The smoke obscured the scene, which had not been cordoned off with cones. The vehicle entered, braked hard while attempting to steer away, and came […] This story continues at The Next Web
Candidate Attended Dialogue State Tracking Using BERT
Dialogue state tracking (DST) is one of the core components in task-oriented dialogue systems. At each turn in a conversation, DST estimates the user belief or dialogue state, which is used as input for downstream modules to predict system actions and generate responses. The increasingly popular dialogue system applications like Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa need to support a large number of services and APIs, resulting in growing attention to the scalability of such systems. Especially for s
Amazon's Zoox issues software recall after robotaxi drove into heavy smoke
Last month, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi drove into an active emergency fire scene that was clouded with smoke, the company said.
Amazon found the formula for entering South Africa that Starlink refused
Amazon's entry suggests global technology companies do not always need regulators to change policy before expanding into African markets.
Musk says he’s blocked from South Africa because he’s white. Amazon just moved in
Amazon's satellite business Leo will launch in 2027 by playing by South Africa's Black-ownership rules — the same law Musk refused to follow.
AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes
A three-person agency received a $14,000 AWS bill in one day after attackers extracted static access keys and burned Claude invocations on Bedrock. Combined with May's DN42 incident, where an autonomous agent provisioned $6,531 of oversized infrastructure in 24 hours, practitioners warn that cloud billing lags roughly a day behind agent-speed spend. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
The Past is Never Past
On June 11, 2026, the German automotive company Volkswagen was convicted in four different lawsuits by the Brazilian Labor Court for reducing people to slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. While this judgment marks the company’s second round of convictions for enslavement within the Amazonian state of Pará, it stands out as a historic first in the form of individual reparations for corporate crimes committed nearly fifty years ago. This opens the way for a new era of reckoning with several other com
AWS adds AI-assisted product listing service to its Marketplace portfolio
Product listings in AWS Marketplace gained new AI-based features last month in anticipation of continued growth in the use of enterprise agents. Amazon Web Services Inc. unveiled AI-assisted product listings in Product Assistant chat, a feature that helps independent software vendors and consulting partners develop comprehensive product listings for AWS Marketplace using existing digital assets. […] The post AWS adds AI-assisted product listing service to its Marketplace portfolio appeared first
Anzeige: Rockstar Energy f�llt bei Amazon auf 10 Euro pro 12 halbe Liter
Amazon macht bei verschiedenen Sorten des Energydrinks von Rockstar erneut den Prime-Day-Preis. Der Deal gilt aber nur kurze Zeit. ( Unterhaltung & Hobby , Rockstar )