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On Amazon's earnings call, Andy Jassy said AWS can grow north of 40% in 2027 and 2028 and reach $1 trillion in revenue, TechCrunch reports. He also said Amazon still expects 2026 cash capex of about $220 billion.
30 Oct 2026On the Cheeky Pint podcast, Sam Altman said the world deserves OpenAI's discoveries and that the company has more proofs than it has published. The Verge reports mathematicians' complaints about how OpenAI announces results.
30 Oct 2026Runware told TechCrunch it wants to build modular AI data centres on a production line, as if they were cars. Most of the figures come from its CEO, and TechCrunch calls them plans.
30 Oct 2026In an Anthropic randomized trial, 50 analysts using Claude Code went with their agent's secretly assigned lean on four analytical choices 86% of the time. Only 15% credited the agent in their explanations.
30 Oct 2026On 27 October, Google DeepMind announced Genie 4, a world model it says generates audio natively and can be steered live with text. It is a research preview for trusted testers.
30 Oct 2026The New York Times reports that US intelligence watched Megaspeed executive Alice Huang and found her in contact with Nvidia's Jensen Huang. Nvidia says their dealings are routine, and Megaspeed has hired outside counsel.
29 Oct 2026A Hacker News headline says Stack Overflow now gets fewer than 1,000 questions a month. WitsCode and PPC Land both report a fall of more than 99% from the 2014 peak, but their 2026 monthly counts differ.
29 Oct 2026Anthropic reports deep research partnerships with six drug developers, plus programmes of its own, including one for rare childhood muscular dystrophy. It says the work is still early and mostly preclinical.
28 Oct 2026