Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Discloses $215 Million Amazon Stake
 Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Discloses $215 Million Amazon Stake

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of Amazon shares, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday. It lands in the same week the firm told investors it is selling part of its OpenAI stake, in a company Amazon now owns close to 5% o…

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Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed …

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Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct

Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.

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Twitch will train Amazon’s AI on your streams unless you find the setting
 Twitch will train Amazon’s AI on your streams unless you find the setting

Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were…

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Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out

“If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in,” Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. “That’s honestly the answer.”

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Amazon gets out of the MMO game
 Amazon gets out of the MMO game

Amazon is fully stepping back from MMOs. After saying last year that it would be halting “a significant amount” of its work on first-party AAA games, “specifically around MMOs,” Amazon will be handing over live operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark in the West to other companies, according to announcements on Wednesday. Throne […]

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Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
 Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty item is confirmed!” an email about my retainer cleaning tablets read. Shoppers have posted other iterations of the redacted emails as well: “Ordered: […]

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Amazon’s $5m campaign against Mamdani’s delivery bill is the best argument for passing it
 Amazon’s $5m campaign against Mamdani’s delivery bill is the best argument for passing it

Amazon is spending $5M to kill a single New York City bill, and the size of that cheque is the most honest story the company has said about the fight. The measure is the Delivery Protection Act, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and carrying a majority of…

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Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.
 Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.

Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. Permits allow the p…

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.

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