Amazon, AI and US government
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SK Telecom, SK AX and AWS agreed to combine their AI cloud capabilities to develop customised offerings for specific sectors.
In a most recent investment to expand AI and supercomputing infrastructure for US federal agencies, Amazon announced an investment of up to $50 billion for Amazon Web Services (AWS) U.S. government customers.
Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party companies in favor of its own, a move to bolster its proprietary Kiro service, which it released in July, according to an internal memo viewed by Reuters.
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.
Amazon is seeing huge demand for AI cloud services. Keeping up with this demand has been a challenge, though.