Matt Day

FCC Says Amazon Must Focus on Its Own Buildout, Not SpaceX The head of the Federal Communications Commission chastised Amazon.com Inc. for filing a petition critical of rival satellite operator SpaceX while Amazon itself is behind on meeting deployment obliga...

The FCC chair had some words for Amazon and its Leo satellite effort: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon Wins Court Order Blocking Perplexity’s AI Shopping Bots Perplexity AI Inc. must for now stop using its Comet web browser agent to make purchases on behalf of shoppers from Amazon.com Inc.’s online marketplace, a court ruled this week.

Round One to Amazon: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft Launches New $99 Per Month AI-Focused Software Bundle Microsoft Corp. is launching a new bundle of workplace software with the aim of getting more people to use its artificial intelligence tools for the office.

Microsoft's enormous and enormously successful workplace apps bundle: Now with more AI. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Anthropic Sees Support From Other Tech Workers in Feud With Pentagon Anthropic PBC got a vote of support from Silicon Valley workers for its increasingly contentious public-relations battle with the Pentagon over how the military can use artificial intelligence.

Anthropic, which is resisting Pentagon demands for unrestricted use of its AI services, has the support of a coalition of Big Tech employee groups. They're asking their employers - including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI - to take the same stand: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

OpenAI Finalizes $110 Billion Funding at $730 Billion Valuation OpenAI said it has finalized a record-breaking $110 billion funding round at a $730 billion valuation, not including the money raised, fueling the ChatGPT maker’s costly push to secure more computing ...

Amazon, a company that historically sat out Big Tech-sized investment deals, is putting $50,000,000,000 into OpenAI:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon Lab Leader Who Led Web Agents Effort Is Leaving Company The head of an Amazon.com Inc. artificial intelligence lab who led efforts to create autonomous agents is leaving the company.

David Luan, an Amazon aquihiree and one of the company's most prominent AI leaders, is leaving: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The etc:

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Microsoft Taps AI Executive to Run Xbox, Recommits to Console Microsoft Corp. named AI executive Asha Sharma to lead its Xbox and gaming business, replacing Phil Spencer, and will recommit to console users after years of developing products for mobile and PC pla...

end of an era at Big X:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Amazon Fends Off Blowback for Ring’s Search Party Tool Ad aimed at finding lost puppies raises fears of the surveillance state

New data on Amazon's Ring and the government: Law enforcement put call out for videos 121 times, Sept-Jan. Users turned over 181, 92% on the Brown shooting.
It's far more common that authorities don't ask. Ring was served with 4,700+ orders for user info last year. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Jesse Jackson says Amazon diversity data reflect ‘white male supremacy’ For the first time, Amazon.com has released data on workplace diversity, something critics such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson long sought, showing that 37 percent of the company’s global workforce i...

Back when many of the tech industry's leading cos didn't disclose much about the makeup of their workforces, Jesse Jackson was a regular presence in Seattle, pushing Amazon and Microsoft to share and do more.
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FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI The US Federal Trade Commission is accelerating scrutiny of Microsoft Corp. as part of an ongoing probe into whether the company illegally monopolizes large swaths of the enterprise computing market w...

FTC is accelerating an antitrust probe of Microsoft and has sent requests for information to cloud and office software rivals relating to things like licensing Office/Windows for rival clouds & AI/Copilot, sources tell @sisco.bsky.social, me & @mattmday.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI The US Federal Trade Commission is accelerating scrutiny of Microsoft Corp. as part of an ongoing probe into whether the company illegally monopolizes large swaths of the enterprise computing market w...

News: The FTC recently asked some Microsoft competitors for information on the company's licensing and other practices, part of a probe of whether Microsoft makes it harder for customers to use Windows, Office and other products on rival cloud services: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Labor Board Gives Up Oversight of SpaceX in Victory for Musk Agency drops yearslong case over firing of Musk critics.

Scoop: The US labor board is giving up oversight over Elon Musk's SpaceX, and abandoning its yearslong case over the firing of engineers behind an open letter that criticized Musk www.bloomberg.com/news/article... NLRB prosecutors now say NMB, not NLRB, has jurisdiction over SpaceX

And Amazon may spend $15 billion more than that.

AI Race Sends Big Tech’s Capital Spending to Stratospheric High Four of the biggest US technology companies together have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 — a mind-boggling tide of cash earmarked for new data centers and the...

We've got a new read on the AI boom.

Google could shell out more in capital expenditures (read: data centers) in 2026 than
Exxon
Walmart
Boeing
Intel
UPS
FedEx
GM
Caterpillar
Ford
Tesla
AT&T
Verizon
T-Mobile
& the biggest US defense cos and railroads

Combined.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

Microsoft Is Replacing Security Chief Bell With Google’s Gallot Microsoft Corp. security chief Charlie Bell is moving to a new individual contributor role focused on engineering quality and will be replaced by an executive from Google’s cloud unit.

Area tech exec gets out of the performance review game: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft’s Deal With OpenAI Now Viewed as a Risk, Not Reward The partnership, once applauded, now faces a skeptical audience

“The sentiment has flipped. It’s a combination of ‘Will Sam deliver, and, secondarily, will Sam begin to eat their lunch?’” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Amazon Launches AI-Enhanced Alexa for Prime Subscribers in US Amazon.com Inc. is taking the wrapper off its upgraded Alexa in the US, offering the AI-enhanced digital assistant to paying Prime customers and introducing a free version for everyone else.

Amazon's Alexa+ gets a wide rollout in the US, including a new free version that enables comparisons between Alexa, ChatGPT and the rest of the gang. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Google and its parent Alphabet are plotting big expansion in India's tech hub of Bangalore, coinciding with the Trump administration's visa restrictions @bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Former Microsoft Windows Boss Sought Epstein Advice on Career Former senior Microsoft Corp. executive Steven Sinofsky sought Jeffrey Epstein’s advice as he negotiated the terms of his exit from the company and worked through what to do next, according to documen...

Epstein docs on the Microsoft patch: After Steven Sinofsky left the company in 2012, he sought Jeffrey Epstein’s advice as he negotiated the terms of his exit and worked through what to do next: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nike says a third of the people who make its products don't earn a living wage.