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Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

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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. billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017 and its $8.5

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Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform

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Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Its tools work across platforms and technologies including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and others. CTO Luke Hoban spent 12 years at Microsoft and more recently was at Amazon Web Services.

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GoDaddy launches new ‘Airo’ tools, betting on AI to unlock growth

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GoDaddy Photo) After seeing promising results from early customer testing, GoDaddy is launching new artificial intelligence tools for small businesses that automate the process of finding domains, building websites, and creating social media posts.

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Amazon’s cloud business and AI initiatives in the spotlight in advance of earnings report

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Amazon’s cloud revenue growth rate and its artificial intelligence initiatives will be closely scrutinized when the company reports second-quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, Aug. Amazon Web Services revenue growth declined to 15.8% Wall Street analysts expect the company to report net sales (revenue) of $131.5

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Microsoft and HPE team up to connect Azure cloud to International Space Station

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20 aboard Northrop Grumman’s robotic Cygnus cargo ship , will deliver edge computing, artificial intelligence capabilities and a cloud connection to orbit on an integrated platform for what could be the first time. This won’t be the first time NASA has connected the space station to cloud computing services.

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Visualping raises $2M to help users track website changes — and find open COVID-19 vaccinations

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The company raised $500,000 in 2017. Visualping’s Chief Technologist Xavier Raffin and its head of development Cyril Comparon both came to the startup from roles at Amazon, working for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Vancouver, B.C. startup launched in 2015 and has 16 employees.