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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch ·

Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week

Hackers are breaking into websites that run vulnerable versions of the popular blogging software WordPress, according to several cybersecurity firms.

Robert Booth / The Guardian ·

Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem"

One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he 'almost had a heart attack' when he saw £5.8bn invoice

Bloomberg ·

Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws

Apple Inc. and the US Justice Department are in early discussions about settling a 2024 lawsuit that alleges the iPhone maker violated antitrust laws.

Kashmir Hill / New York Times ·

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive "authors" proliferate

Recently, I received a strange text from a new acquaintance. "You have your own biography???" it read.

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times ·

Ofcom report: VPN users in the UK jumped to 2.2M, up from 1.2M before the introduction of laws enforcing age limits on pornography sites in July 2025

Regulator Ofcom finds evidence of children using the technology to get around age checks

Greg Bensinger / Reuters ·

Dave Brown, AWS SVP of Compute, AI, and Platform, is leaving the company after 19 years for a new job; he is a member of the S-team that advises CEO Andy Jassy

Amazon (AMZN.O) veteran Dave Brown, a senior vice president in Amazon Web Services and member of the elite internal group advising CEO Andy Jassy …

Politico ·

How Anthropic is pursuing a state-by-state push for ever-tougher AI safety laws, in contrast with OpenAI's "reverse federalism" strategy for common state rules

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Muvija M / Reuters ·

The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight

Britain has designated cloud service providers Microsoft (MSFT.O), Google (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Oracle (ORCL.N) …

Eugene Kim / Business Insider ·

Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026

Amazon's next Alexa AI upgrade may be able to handle more complex tasks. Getting there is expensive, though.

Bloomberg ·

Amazon is looking to raise at least $25B from a US dollar bond sale to fund its AI infrastructure investments; the size could increase based on demand

Amazon.com Inc. is looking to raise at least $25 billion from a US dollar bond sale, marking its latest jumbo debt offering …

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch ·

AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams

As companies struggle to integrate AI, they're increasingly ready to bring in outside help

Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg ·

Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them

Amazon.com Inc. has been sued by Australia's consumer watchdog for introducing advertising to its Prime Video streaming service …

Catherine Perloff / The Information ·

Amazon is weighing using OpenAI's and its own Nova models to cut costs after Anthropic raised prices for using its models in Amazon products

As Anthropic grows to become a leading AI model used by enterprises, it's been flexing its power with customers

Catherine Perloff / The Information ·

AWS hikes prices for Nvidia GPUs in its EC2 Capacity Blocks service, which let businesses rent AI compute in advance, by 20%; Trainium chip pricing is unchanged

Amazon Web Services is raising the price for its AI workload rental service by 20%, the company said on Friday.

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