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What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

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Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 Indeed, the kingdom is positioning itself as a global leader in digital technologies ahead of its hosting of the World Expo 2030 in Riyadh.

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Microsoft is a guinea pig for climate friendly concrete as it paves the way to greener data centers

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While the tech juggernaut expands, it also aims to be climate negative by 2030. based company is acting as a guinea pig and testing greener alternatives to conventional concrete. The alternatives can cut the concrete’s carbon footprint in half, according to the company. “It So the Redmond, Wash.-based

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Amazon sustainability report: Carbon emissions rose 19% in 2020 as pandemic drove huge revenue

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electric vehicle manufacturer, is producing 100,000 delivery vehicles for Amazon by 2030. But at the same time, the company last year lowered its carbon intensity, a measure of carbon pollution per dollar earned, edging slightly towards its pledged goal to reduce its net carbon footprint to zero by 2040. Rivian, a U.S.

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Technical interviewing startup Karat reaches $1.1B valuation as another unicorn emerges in Seattle

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The news: Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, raised a $110 million Series C round at a $1.1 It’s the latest Seattle tech company this year to reach a $1 billion valuation, or “unicorn” status, following Amperity , Highspot , Zenoti , Outreach , and Rec Room.

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Researchers want to put energy hogs like ChatGPT on a diet with more efficient computer chips

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GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Giant tech companies offering cloud services — such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Alphabet’s Google Cloud — own many of the massive data centers where generative AI tools are trained and operate. But GPT-3 was only the start. We need the creativity.

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Amazon and critics wage PR war in annual meeting with starkly opposing portraits of tech giant

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Working at Amazon is either like “winning a golden ticket,” or dealing with a “vein of toxicity” that runs through the company. But the meeting, held virtually for the first time, provided a high-profile platform for criticism of the company. “This is environmental racism.”

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