Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
The Verge 1 week ago 15
Amazon warned communities not to block AI data center projects, saying doing so could harm the US economy and national security.
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The Verge 1 week ago 15
Amazon warned communities not to block AI data center projects, saying doing so could harm the US economy and national security.
MarkTechPost 1 week ago 48 ● 5 sources
AWS Strands Labs released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source decision model that reads a state and typed questions and outputs an option choice, a yes/no probability, or a rubric score (no text generation). It has 1.9 billion parameters and runs with a reported 115 ms median latency on an RTX 3090. The release includes Apache-2.0 weights on Hugging Face plus a pip-installable CLI and local HTTP server, with self-hosted deployment supported but no hosted inference providers yet.
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Anthropic used its pre-IPO moment to put hard numbers behind the AI business model: it reported $16.8 billion in Q3 revenue, up 45% sequentially, and said it reached adjusted profitability for the first time. That matters because it reframes what “scaling” looks like for the next wave of investors—less guesswork, more operating reality—at the same time the company is briefing markets ahead of an expected November listing.
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