Inside Amazon's Trainium Lab - How It Beat NVIDIA
An exclusive TechCrunch tour of Amazon's Trainium chip lab reveals how AWS is training Claude for Anthropic and now holds an $138B commitment from OpenAI.
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Microsoft Weighs Lawsuit Over OpenAI's $50B AWS Deal
Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI and Amazon after a $50 billion AWS cloud deal may breach its exclusive cloud hosting agreement signed when it backed OpenAI with $13 billion.
OpenAI Brings AWS Into Its U.S. Government Push
OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.
Amazon Mandates Senior Approval for AI-Assisted Code
After a six-hour shopping outage and multiple AI-linked incidents, Amazon now requires junior and mid-level engineers to get senior sign-off before deploying AI-assisted code changes.
Claude Code Wipes Production Database in Terraform Mishap
An AI coding agent executed terraform destroy on a live course platform serving 100,000 students, obliterating the VPC, RDS database, and ECS cluster. AWS restored 1.94 million rows from a hidden snapshot after 24 hours.
AWS Launches AI Agent Platform for Healthcare Admin
Amazon Connect Health deploys multi-agent AI built on Nova Sonic and Bedrock to automate scheduling, documentation, and patient verification for health systems.
