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Appears in 18 stories · Last updated Nov 8, 2026
Built and shipped Kiro bots
A developer who starts five coding agents before a morning call comes back to five half-finished conversations. One is stuck waiting to re-approve a tool. Another fixed a test without explaining why. The parallel work happened; the context did not survive it.
Updated 3 days ago
Hosts Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock through global and India geographic inference profiles.
Amazon Bedrock now runs Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, through global and India-only inference profiles. The India option, added November 3, keeps requests inside the Mumbai and Hyderabad regions for customers with data-residency rules. Kimi K3 has native vision, a one-million-token context window, and explicit prompt caching, the first open-weight model on Bedrock with that feature.
Updated 6 days ago
Market leader pursuing model-agnostic agent strategy via Bedrock
Google donated three agent-infrastructure projects to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation on November 5: Agent Substrate, gVisor and OpenRL. Agent Substrate, which snapshots idle agents to storage and restores them in under 500 milliseconds, reached version 1.0 and is generally available on Google Kubernetes Engine.
Incumbent whose S3 product Dropbox and Tigris are positioning against
Dropbox signed a definitive agreement on November 3, 2026 to buy Tigris Data for about $350 million in cash. It announced the deal two days later alongside DBX Agent Cloud, a service that will sell object storage directly to businesses and developers building AI applications.
Availability partner for GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, a model built for the screen-based work that fills office days: reading invoices, filling forms, editing videos and interpreting technical drawings. Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, which OpenAI says is 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra.
Updated Oct 29
Cloud and AI infrastructure partner for the plugin
On October 6, Southwest became the first U.S. carrier to appear inside ChatGPT. Travelers can describe a trip, compare fares, and shop Southwest's four fare types without leaving the chat window.
Updated Oct 25
Operator of the Physical AI Toolchain
Amazon runs more than a million robots inside its own fulfillment network. In October 2026 it packaged the lessons from that operation into an open-source platform, the AWS Physical AI Toolchain, for companies building machines that perceive, decide, and act in the physical world.
Updated Oct 22
Already offers OpenAI models
OpenAI's GPT-6 models and its Codex coding agent are moving into Google Cloud's Model Garden. The three models, Astra, Sol and Luna, are in private preview for select enterprise customers, and the companies say general availability is weeks away.
Largest cloud provider, $200B capex guidance for 2026 after Q4 AWS 24% growth to $35.6B
ChatGPT's November 2022 launch triggered the fastest infrastructure buildout in tech history. Hyperscalers are now on track to spend over $1 trillion in 2026, a figure roughly equal to the entire GDP of Turkey or the Netherlands.
Updated Oct 19
High-profile case study for co-located load after the Susquehanna dispute
Data centers found a shortcut: park next to a generator and drink power without waiting years for grid upgrades. In December 2025, FERC ordered PJM to rewrite its tariff so co-located mega-load can't stay invisible to planning and cost responsibility. In June 2026, FERC expanded the push, ordering six grid operators to justify or overhaul how they connect AI data centers.
Updated Oct 16
As of September 2026: Project approval pending
Ohio's Supreme Court barred a citizen-initiated ballot measure that would have let Wilmington residents sue Amazon Web Services over its planned $4 billion data center campus. The 6-1 ruling on Sept. 18 said cities can't create private rights of action through zoning ordinances.
Updated Sep 23
As of September 2026: First agent platform supported by Agent Resilience
Cohesity now backs up AI agents the way it backs up databases and file servers. Its Agent Resilience capability protects agent memory, configuration, credentials, guardrails, and workflows, with point-in-time recovery to a known-good state after corruption, misconfiguration, or prompt injection.
Updated Sep 22
As of September 2026: Confirmed permanent data loss in Bahrain and one UAE availability zone
Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon's Gulf data centers in March. Six months later, Amazon Web Services (AWS) confirmed it cannot restore customer data stored only in Bahrain and one of three UAE availability zones.
Updated Sep 16
As of September 2026: Building Sta'O'Nuk as part of its global fiber network
AWS broke ground on Sta'O'Nuk, a subsea cable connecting Washington state to Japan, with service targeted for 2029. At 420 Tbps across 20 fiber pairs, it will be one of the largest trans-Pacific routes ever built.
Updated Sep 5
As of July 2026: Shipping custom Trainium chips in volume
Chip stocks lost more than $1 trillion in market value on July 28, 2026. Memory maker SK Hynix fell about 14% and Samsung dropped over 10%, pulling South Korea's Kospi down roughly 9%. Nvidia slid more than 5% and briefly handed the title of world's most valuable company back to Apple.
Updated Jul 28
As of May 2026: US-East-1 region affected by February 2026 cascade
On February 16, 2026, a misconfigured routing update at Cloudflare's Ashburn data center cascaded across the internet, taking down X for three hours and degrading AWS's largest region. Thousands of other websites went down too. The error took 40 minutes to identify but four hours to fix because corrupted routing tables spread to upstream providers.
Updated May 29
As of May 2026: Primary investor and operator
Amazon is transforming northern Indiana farmland into one of the world's largest artificial intelligence computing hubs. In November 2025, the company announced a $15 billion expansion on top of an $11 billion project already under construction near New Carlisle.
Updated May 27
As of May 2026: Pursuing nuclear power partnerships after FERC setback; invested $500M in X-energy SMRs
Google spent $4.75 billion over a year ago acquiring Intersect Power, owning power plants that feed its AI data centers. Amazon bought a Pennsylvania nuclear campus; Microsoft restarted Three Mile Island in September 2024; Meta announced nuclear deals with Vistra, TerraPower, Oklo unlocking up to 6.6 gigawatts for American AI. Tech giants now control the grid.
Updated May 16
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