You might think Amazon’s biggest swing in the AI race was its $8 billion investment in Anthropic. But AWS has also been building in-house foundation models, new chips, massive data centers, and agents meant to keep enterprise customers locked inside its ecosystem. The company believes these offerings will give it an edge as businesses of all shapes and sizes deploy AI in the real world.WIRED sat down with AWS CEO Matt Garman ahead of the company’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas to discuss his AI vision, and how he plans to extend Amazon’s lead in the cloud market over…
Almost everything is on hiatus. The EU AI Act, Digital Services Act, and Digital Markets Act are all at risk. The European Commission is preparing to end the year with virtually no movement on its most important tech policy initiatives. Many measures may even be reversed.In particular, a series of…
In the battle of the competitive mid-range handsets, Google’s Pixel 9a was seen as one of the best choices in the market. How can Google maintain that success when it launches the Pixel 10a? Given the price-sensitive nature of this market space, getting the price right is critical.Pixel 10a DecisionsThis…
It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it were to fall under the control of powerful profit-driven forces,…
Well, well, well. It’s already the end of November. I hope all you Pipsqueaks enjoy this final Sunday of the month. Soon, it’ll be Christmas and then New Year’s Eve and then we’ll all be writing 2026 on everything. Or trying to remember to write 2026, at least. In any…
Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, I think that one thing that everyone can agree on is that Nvidia is undoubtedly one of the companies that has gone all in during this AI acceleration moment. For better or worse, about 90 percent of Nvidia’s sales, which were once dominated by chips for personal…
It’s the last weekend of November and I’m really not sure where the time has gone. This year has flown by. In a couple days, it’ll be December already. Then again, I’m kind of itching for Christmas to get here so I can watch the next three episodes of Stranger…
Black Friday isn’t the only “holiday” we’re celebrating today, because it’s also 2XP Friday for competitive Wordle players! You get double the points — or lose double the points — when you play against a friend, enemy, rival, acquaintance or, of course, me. Or that dastardly Wordle Bot! Let’s put…
Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, visited the White House this week to announce with an initiative with Donald Trump that would give priority to World Cup ticket holders next year to process a US visa. This initiative is called “FIFA Pass.”“FIFA Pass is a prioritized appointment scheduling system,” Infantino…
A few days ago, I watched a man at a retail counter lean forward, straining to hear the person helping him. The store was loud, the layout was confusing, and the conversation became harder than it needed to be. The employee did their best, but the moment still faltered, not…
Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot.I recently watched as Memo, a new home robot from a company called Sunday Robotics, made coffee in an open-plan kitchen in Mountain View, California.Memo looks like something out of Wall-E, with a gleaming white body, two…
Evan Kirstel, a mega-influencer in the technology space, has been doing some very cute things with AI lately, planting himself in the midst of historical and current event videos on his Facebook posts. (For example, in one post: Evan introduces Apple’s technology in 1946.) Highly creative indeed, but Evan has…
If you read any of WIRED’s recent AI edition, you know that lots of people are spending lots of time talking about how the technology is revolutionizing pretty much everything—from coding to writing to accounting. You’ve also probably heard by now, from us or somebody else, that we might very…
We’re back to numbers again in today’s NYT Pips Hard tier puzzle. Numbers, numbers, numbers and the occasional letter for good measure. They skipped quite a few numbers to get to today’s, however. That number is 100 and I thought maybe it was a celebration of the 100th Pips puzzle,…
It turns out that when an AI-friendly super PAC with $100 million in backing from Silicon Valley bigwigs identifies you as its first target, it ends up generating a lot of attention.“I want to thank [the PAC] for their partnership in raising up the issue of how we regulate an…
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Some US tech giants are abandoning their decade-long practice of publishing statistics…
In thinking about applied AI in the business world, we have a…
One day a couple months ago, in the middle of lunch, I…
It’s 2XP Friday for those of us who play Competitive Wordle. That…
