Amazon Web Services’ annual tech conference AWS re:Invent has wrapped up its first official day of programming and has already delivered an endless stream of product news. The unsurprising theme is AI for the enterprise, although this year it’s all about upgrades that give its customers greater control to customize AI agents — including one…
We’ve visualized an intricate web of relationships among Southeast Asia’s VCs, using deal data in the past two years.
I love instant cameras because of how they help me slow down and be creative without the distractions of a phone. Holding a real print also feels grounding in a screen-dominated age, which is why I think a lot of people these days are drawn to them — and why models with old-school vibes like…
Vector databases emerged as a must-have technology foundation at the beginning of the modern gen AI era. What has changed over the last year, however, is that vectors, the numerical representations of data used by LLMs, have increasingly become just another data type in all manner of different databases. Now, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is…
It was once common practice for medtech companies to fill shelves with devices, each designed to solve a single problem. That approach made sense when innovation was measured by the number of products launched each year. But healthcare has evolved. Hospitals and clinical buyers aren’t looking for more hardware, they’re looking for integrated solutions that…
Bending Spoons, a company that buys and revitalizes stagnating tech companies, has agreed to purchase Eventbrite for about $500 million, a far cry from the $1.76 billion the company was worth when it went public in 2018. Just like many of Bending Spoons’ previous acquisitions, including Evernote, Meetup, Vimeo, and AOL, Eventbrite has a strong…
Both Amazon and Flipkart rank among the top 10 platforms for payments via India’s Unified Payments Interface.
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Amazon’s AI chief has a message for the model benchmark obsessives: Stop looking at the leaderboards. “I want real-world utility. None of these benchmarks are real,” Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s…
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new class of artificial intelligence systems called “frontier agents” that can work autonomously for hours or even days without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious attempts yet to automate the full software development lifecycle. The announcement, made during AWS CEO Matt Garman’s keynote address at the…
Since the launch of ChatGPT three years ago, almost everyone has used Artificial Intelligence in some fashion to help with their work and the world collectively believes AI holds potential. I have written on AI subjects three times before in this series—on strategy and AI, on AI investment, and on AI’s impact on entry level…
