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Amazon Is Helping Advertisers Buy Ads on ChatGPT

10 September 2026 at 15:00

Amazon is letting advertisers test buying ads on ChatGPT via Amazon’s advertising technology platform, Amazon said on Sept. 10.

ChatGPT started selling ads earlier this year, which it has let advertisers buy through its own interface and via partnerships with smaller advertising technology firms ...

AWS Tells Engineers to Cut CPU Waste Amid Crunch

7 August 2026 at 14:00

Amazon Web Services leaders met with engineers in May and delivered a sobering message: To ensure AWS has enough capacity for all its customers at its popular EC2 cloud server business in the future, engineers should save capacity however they can, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting.

That includes capacity on servers that run on central processing units, as well as those running on AI chips, which have long been in short supply, the person said. CPUs are the chips that have powered the last several decades of the internet age. Since then, some engineers within AWS have found it takes much longer to get capacity on CPU servers for their work.

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