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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. Earlier this year, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Meta signed an open letter calling on the tech sector to use less concrete and lower-carbon materials in the construction of data centers. 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. Amazon aims to power its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 and make half of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030, including through 100,000 custom electric vehicles that will be on the road by 2030. Rivian, a U.S.

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Tech report lays out a fuzzy roadmap for Washington state’s quantum industry

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NQN’s partners include Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, which have both rolled out cloud-based quantum computing platforms; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is working on a range of quantum applications for national security purposes; and premier research institutions including UW and Washington State University.

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

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Another trend that should help fuel growth: The employment of software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers is projected to grow 22% from 2020 to 2030 — “much faster than the average for all occupations,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Karat says its model is better for job candidates, too.

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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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