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Amazon will report earnings after the closing bell on Thursday. Analysts want updates on AI progress, AWS, and retail margins.
Amazon’s biggest AI data center is now operational in Indiana, with half a million AWS Trainium2 chips entirely devoted to powering OpenAI rival Anthropic. Just over a year ago, it was nothing but cornfields.
Amazon said in a press release Wednesday that Anthropic is using 500,000 of its Trainium2 chips for its Claude AI models as part of the tech giant's Project Rainier, a massive AI
Amazon.com said on Wednesday it has launched its compute cluster project called Rainier, and added that artificial intelligence firm Anthropic will use more than a million chips of the infrastructure by the end of the year.
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Amazon said it will cut approximately 14,000 white-collar jobs as it seeks to gain efficiencies -- and as it prepares for advances in artificial intelligence in running the company.
A major outage last week disrupted Amazon's cloud division for 15 hours, affecting hundreds of companies and raising questions about AWS' resilience.
Amazon's HR chief also explained the 14,000 cuts in part by saying AI is helping companies innovate faster.