An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple 

Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.

Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?

Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win.

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Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows

The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin enters the space data center game

“Project Sunrise” would include more than 50,000 satellites performing high-energy compute on orbit.

Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot

Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup.

Sam Altman’s thank-you to coders draws the memes

Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate

Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup, which was shared on Github. And everyone has an opinion: even Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B

At Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s urging, Frore developed liquid-cooling tech for chips. That shift helped it just raise $143 million.

The billionaires made a promise — now some want out

In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world’s wealthiest people, to give away more than half their fortune during their lifetime or upon their…