Amazon is negotiating to buy Israeli AI startup Decart at nearly double its May valuation. A month earlier Anthropic wanted the same company — until a dispute over relocating staff killed the deal.
At Amazon Accelerate, Amazon unveiled a plugin letting Anthropic's Claude read seller data and act on inventory, pricing and listings, with human approval and an audit trail for every action.
Qualcomm and Amazon Web Services will co-develop custom AI inference chips in a deal that could bring Qualcomm up to $60 billion in orders through 2036, with Amazon receiving nearly $4 billion in Qualcomm stock warrants.
The UN's ITU launched the AI for Good Global Commission on July 2 — the first body to seat Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft CEOs alongside heads of state. 44 founding members, first meeting July 7 in Geneva.
Maker of the Digit humanoid robot goes public via a $2.5B SPAC with Churchill Capital XI, raising $600M+. Amazon, Nvidia, and Foxconn back a company with $300M in signed orders already in hand.
Bloomberg reports Amazon is in early talks to sell Trainium3 chips directly to data centers — pivoting from cloud-only to hardware vendor and taking the fight to Nvidia.
