GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

were the first to be powered by the company’s Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, as part of a broader cloud infrastructure buildout. Google parent Alphabet reported capital expenditures of $12 billion, up 90%, “driven overwhelmingly by investment in our technical infrastructure,” CFO Ruth Porat told analysts. What about Amazon?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will reorganize its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) group to “lay the foundation for accelerated customer impact and growth in the years ahead,” according to an internal memo Monday morning. See full text below.)

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by the now-future Amazon CEO , closed out 2020 with more than $13.5 billion in annual operating profits, responsible for more than 63% of the entire company’s operating profits for the year, on annual AWS revenue of $45.3 billion, up nearly 30% year-over-year.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent this week, in front of a slide showing some of the company’s customers and partners. Screenshot via webcast).

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

(Amazon Image) Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q , the AI assistant unveiled by Amazon Web Services last fall. The announcement is part of a new trend of the company announcing new AI features just prior to its quarterly earnings report.

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GeekWire

MAY 22, 2024

Newly named Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, speaking here at a Madrona Venture Group event last fall, brings years of product and sales experience to his new role. Amazon Web Services’ revenue in the first quarte r was up 17% to $25 billion. “He got to it. . “He got to it. He solved it.”

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2020

Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot office for more than 600 Amazon Web Services workers in Redmond, Wash. The new Redmond outpost will house tech and engineering teams supporting AWS’ database services. In addition to its offices in Seattle proper, Google has a large outpost in Kirkland, Wash.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2024

The AI assistant will now be powered by the Azure OpenAI Service, according to the company. Khan Academy is a longtime Google Cloud customer , based in the search giant’s hometown of Mountain View, Calif.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic , the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded two years ago by former OpenAI executives and considered one of the world’s top AI labs. Anthropic makes large-scale AI models and a chatbot called Claude. ”

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2023

A sign inside the Google Cloud campus in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Google Cloud boosted its operating profits to $395 million for the second quarter, a improvement of close to $1 billion from its loss of $590 million in the same quarter a year ago. billion, with net income of $18.4

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2023

She was previously at Google for 16 years, rising to the level of engineering director of Google Compute Engine. She was formerly vice president of the “Department of Customer Love” at data analytics startup Looker, which Google acquired in 2020. The company is based in California. Madin Akpo-Esambe.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2024

Most popular stories on GeekWire Tech Moves: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down — Baskar Sridharan, a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team.

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GeekWire

MAY 27, 2021

which has its corporate headquarters in Chicago, is reportedly at the center of a bidding war between Amazon, Microsoft and Google for a cloud computing contract. For what it’s worth, Google Cloud sent us a “no comment” email.). The Boeing Co., Boeing Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Selipsky oversaw the company’s acquisition by Salesforce for $15.7

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. He led teams working on various cloud-related services and platforms, including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and the Azure AI Platform. James Phillips. iSpot ranks No. iSpot ranks No.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2024

“We believe AI will be distributed,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at a media event here Monday morning in advance of the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle this week. The company showed a series of benchmarks claiming better performance than Apple computers on a variety of fronts.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2022

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian calls the Mandiant acquisition “an opportunity to deliver an end-to-end security operations suite.” ” (Google File Photo). Google’s agreement to buy cybersecurity company Mandiant for $5.4 It also reflects a growth area for the cloud giants.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

(LinkedIn Photos) A pair of Amazon alum is raising cash for a new startup that helps enterprises build and deploy secure artificial intelligence applications, preventing company data from slipping through the cracks. Its tools give companies a way to safely build large language models, including conversational, copilot, and autonomous agents.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals. However, U.S.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

In a reversal of earlier reports, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has clarified that it has not halted orders for Nvidia’s most advanced chip. With Project Cebia, the goalposts are actually moving and Amazon needs to be at the leading edge to catch up with Google, and Microsoft in this AI race.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). This move comes as the company seeks to streamline its operations and focus on areas that deliver a better return on investment. Google also saw an increase in its market share.

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TM Forum

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Telcos often view hyperscale cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft as competition, complaining that the digital natives have a distinct advantage because they aren’t hamstrung by regulation. But these companies are also potential partners, and they could help telcos crack the enterprise 5G market.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Millworks Analytics Photo) Former Tableau CFO Damon Fletcher is coming out of retirement to launch a startup that helps tech companies get a hold of their cloud costs amid a surge in spending driven by artificial intelligence. Fletcher recruited former Tableau colleague Michael Arvold to be the company’s co-founder and CTO.

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GeekWire

JULY 17, 2020

Amazon has reached a confidential legal settlement with Brian Hall, a former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing who was sued by the company after taking a job with Google Cloud in alleged violation of the non-compete clause in his Amazon employment agreement. Brian Hall.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 26, 2024

Microsoft is reuniting management of its Windows operating system and its Surface devices, as the leader of its Windows and Web Experiences team has quit his current role and may leave the company.

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GeekWire

MARCH 7, 2024

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, right, speaks with Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas on Nov. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Anthropic, one of the most valuable privately held AI companies going head-to-head in the generative AI race with OpenAI, is expanding its presence in the Seattle area.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That’s the new estimate from Synergy Research Group , a market researcher that provides data and analysis on IT and cloud-related markets, after results last week from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Google Cloud revenue rose 22% to $8.4 Investors, however, knocked Google Cloud for missing Wall Street estimates of $8.62

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GeekWire

MARCH 5, 2022

A flurry of tech companies — including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — are halting sales of services and products in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting government sanctions. Cutting off access to crucial internet services is another. based security tech company Polyverse.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2024

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Meta President Nick Clegg, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google’s President of Global Affairs Kent Walker, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith at the White House. Where does the AI windfall go?

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Venture Beast

MAY 17, 2021

France said its state and corporate data can be stored on Google and Microsoft's cloud services which have been licensed to French companies. Read More.

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GeekWire

JULY 26, 2023

Protect AI sells software that allows companies to monitor the various layers and components of machine learning systems, detecting potential violations and logging information on those attacks. predicts businesses will spend more than $100 billion on related services by 2025. McKinsey and Co. McKinsey and Co.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2023

Google Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alphabet, has turned profitable at an operating level for the first time ever, despite fears of macroeconomic uncertainty. Google Cloud posted an operating income of $191 million for the quarter ended March, compared with an operating loss of $706 million for the corresponding period last year.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2024

Amazon announced a series of new features for its AWS Bedrock service. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services is releasing new capabilities for its Bedrock artificial intelligence service, including the ability for customers to import their own custom AI models to run alongside models from major providers.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amazon has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in generative AI firm Anthropic, which has tried to carve out a niche in the market for artificial intelligence services by focusing on so-called constitutional AI , a system designed to reduce potential misinformation and harm caused by the technology. Amazon will initially invest $1.25

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That’s the top-line finding four months into Google’s initiative to enroll users in two-factor authentication by default, detailed in a blog post to coincide with Safer Internet Day on February 8th. In the latest post, Google says it observed a 50 percent decrease in accounts being compromised among that test user group.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon, posted a 13% growth in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 buoyed by demand for generative AI -related services, despite continued cost optimization activity by enterprises. “Similar to what we shared last quarter, we continue to see the diminishing impact of cost optimizations.

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