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Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group

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GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred jobs on its Physical Stores Technology team, executives in the tech giant’s cloud computing division informed employees Wednesday morning in internal emails.

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Amazon Web Services launches $40M initiative that aims to reduce health inequities

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Amazon Web Services will provide $40 million in credits and technical support over three years for organizations working to enhance health and reduce inequities in care. The new global program, announced Monday, will operate in parallel to another launched in early 2020 to support COVID-19 diagnostics research and development.

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Spearline and Amazon Web Services Partnership

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Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform which offers compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow as required. This facilitates an increased level of investment in research, innovation and manpower.

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Amazon partners with UCLA on science hub focusing on AI and its social impact

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Amazon and UCLA are launching a research hub that will draw upon industry and academic research to address the social issues raised by the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. The collaboration will support doctoral fellowships and research projects as well as community outreach programs. UCLA Photo).

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

GeekWire

The investment and expanded partnership includes a commitment by Anthropic to make Amazon Web Services its main cloud provider. “Training state-of-the-art models requires extensive resources including compute power and research programs,” the company said in the post.

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Amazon adding more space east of Seattle in Redmond for 800 new AWS jobs, Project Kuiper lab

GeekWire

will be home to hundreds of Amazon Web Services employees. Amazon is making more real estate moves east of Seattle, adding hundreds of Amazon Web Services roles in Redmond, Wash. Redmond Town Center in Redmond, Wa., Invesco Photo). The number is in addition to 600 jobs previously announced.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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 Chinese competitor Huawei also has invested $400 million in cloud infrastructure for its services in Saudi Arabia.