🤝 Amazon’s $38B OpenAI pact jolts the AI cloud pecking order
AWS just snagged OpenAI as a marquee customer, signaling it’s not playing catch-up anymore. Investors noticed, obviously.
Analysts say the deal could meaningfully pad AWS’s backlog-and morale-as Amazon leans harder into AI infra after a wobbly spell.
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⚖️ Getty v Stability AI lands a mixed verdict
A UK court largely knocked back Getty’s core copyright claims, while still flagging limited trademark infringement when AI outputs echoed Getty watermarks.
Both sides spun it as a win, which... tracks. The bigger question-training data legality-stays awkwardly unresolved.
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🎓 Anthropic teams with Iceland on a national classroom pilot
Teachers across Iceland are getting Claude to speed lesson prep and lighten paperwork-the boring bits that eat evenings.
It’s one of the first nationwide AI-in-education trials, framed as careful, values-first... but still ambitious.
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☁️ Deutsche Telekom + Nvidia build a €1B industrial AI cloud
A Munich data center with up to 10,000 Blackwell GPUs is the headline-robots, drones, LLMs the promised tenants.
Go-live is slated for the first quarter, with SAP in the software mix. Busy, noisy, very German-efficiency vibes.
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🛒 Amazon sues Perplexity over its ‘agentic’ shopping
Amazon says Perplexity’s Comet agent accessed customer accounts and masked bot-like activity.
Welcome to the messy middle where web rules meet autonomous agents trying to shop for you. Convenient-or too convenient.
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🖼️ Microsoft rolls out its own image model, MAI-Image-1
It’s now powering Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The company says it excels at photorealism and artsy lighting... food pics, too, apparently.
Not yet in the EU-which is a bit of a tease-but the direction is clear: more first-party models, less waiting around.
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