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Amazon Is Helping Advertisers Buy Ads on ChatGPT

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 ...

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Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia Joins Amazon’s Board

Kevin Mandia, a cybersecurity expert who founded Mandiant, is joining Amazon’s board of directors, increasing the board’s size to 12. The board had shrunk briefly after Keith B. Alexander left the board in the spring. Like Mandia, Alexander had a security backgroundβ€”he served as a general in the ...

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AWS Tells Engineers to Cut CPU Waste Amid Crunch

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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AWS Revenue Growth Accelerates Sharply to 37% in Q2

Amazon stock surged in after hours trading after the ecommerce-and-cloud firm reported that revenue from its cloud division Amazon Web Services soared 37% in the second quarter, nine percentage points faster than the first quarter, bringing the division’s revenue to $42.2 billion. AWS’ operating ...

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