Amazon.com News - May 28, 2026

Amazon Strengthens AI Offerings by Adding Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 to AWS
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Amazon Strengthens AI Offerings by Adding Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 to AWS

Amazon launched Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 AI model on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Users can access the model through Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform...

Amazon Scraps Internal AI Leaderboard, Ending Costly Employee Tokenmaxxing
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Amazon Scraps Internal AI Leaderboard, Ending Costly Employee Tokenmaxxing

Amazon terminated an internal leaderboard designed to track employee usage of generative AI tools. Staff inflated usage scores by assigning AI agents to...

Anthropic Raises $65 Billion, Surpassing OpenAI With $965 Billion Valuation
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Anthropic Raises $65 Billion, Surpassing OpenAI With $965 Billion Valuation

Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round. This investment increases the company’s post-money valuation to $965 billion. Anthropic now ranks as the...

Amazon Names Dr. Roy Schoenberg Health Services Head to Scale Clinical Operations
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Amazon Names Dr. Roy Schoenberg Health Services Head to Scale Clinical Operations

Amazon named Amwell co-founder Dr. Roy Schoenberg as the new head of its Health Services division. The appointment becomes effective on July 1. Schoenberg will...

AWS Launches RNG Networking, Slashing Infrastructure Costs to Support AI
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AWS Launches RNG Networking, Slashing Infrastructure Costs to Support AI

Amazon Web Services (AWS) deployed a new data center networking architecture called Resilient Network Graphs (RNG). This quasi-random flat topology replaces...

Swiggy Shuns Spending War With Amazon, Prioritizing Instamart Profits
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Swiggy Shuns Spending War With Amazon, Prioritizing Instamart Profits

Swiggy Ltd. CEO Sriharsha Majety confirmed the company will not engage in a spending war within India’s quick commerce sector. This decision targets...