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EarningsBusiness

Amazon Plans $220B Capex as AWS Revenue Grows 37%, Testing Returns

AWS provides a visible return channel today. The harder question is whether future capacity sales and AI-led retail discovery can sustain the payoff from Amazon’s expanding infrastructure budget. Amazon ’s AI infrastructure outlay is no longer a purely forward-looking bet: AWS revenue grew 37% year over year to $42.2 billion in the second quarter, its fastest growth in 18 quarters.

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IndiGo Ventures Joins Sarvam’s $1.5B Series B, Linking Airline Work to Ownership

The airline’s venture arm is backing a supplier it plans to use for customer service, staff productivity and operations—where dependable deployment will be the real test. IndiGo Ventures has joined Sarvam AI’s Series B, turning an airline technology collaboration into an ownership relationship. The deal ties IndiGo to a Bengaluru startup building sovereign AI systems around Indian languages and localized data needs.

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IREN Takes $639M Mining Writedown as AI Cloud Revenue Rises Nearly 8x

IREN is retiring older mining hardware and preparing sites for AI cloud growth, but contracted annualized capacity revenue remains well ahead of the cloud revenue it has recognized. IREN shares fell about 6% after its fiscal 2026 results put the cost of its business transition in plain view: a $638.8 million impairment tied largely to older bitcoin-mining equipment it plans to retire.

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Enterprise adoptionInfrastructure

Meta Tests Data-Center Repair Robots, but Cable Bots Still Need Human Supervision

Meta already uses robots for bounded logistics work. The harder test is whether supervised machines can make delicate maintenance tasks fast and reliable enough to change how data centers are staffed. Meta is pushing robots beyond rack transport and barcode scanning toward work traditionally done by technicians: swapping cables, resetting servers, and reseating parts.

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Coughlan and Lucas Join About 80 in UK Voice-Ownership Push Against AI Cloning

Save Our Voices Now is turning concern about unauthorized synthetic speech into a demand for statutory rights for every person in Britain. A petition and open letter now test whether that demand can reach legislation. Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville and Matt Lucas are among the supporters of Save Our Voices Now, a UK campaign seeking to stop AI systems from cloning real people’s voices without consent.

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LaunchTools

OpenAI’s 10-Day WebMCP Challenge Pushes Websites to Expose Tools for AI Agents

The contest is an early test of whether sites will publish agent-facing actions instead of relying only on interfaces designed for human clicks. OpenAI has opened a 10-day WebMCP Challenge around an experimental web standard that lets a site define structured actions an AI agent can use directly. That is a different model from asking an agent to treat a page primarily as a visual workspace.

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LaunchModels

Cohere’s Parse 5 Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown for $1.50 per 1,000 Pages

The compact vision model is built for high-volume retrieval and document-processing pipelines, but its headline benchmark result leaves out chart and visual-grounding tests. Cohere has released Parse 5, a 2.3-billion-parameter vision-language model that converts enterprise document pages into structured Markdown for $1.50 per 1,000 pages. Those limits define the boundary of Cohere’s pitch.

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Security riskPolicy

100 Firms Warn AI Cyberattacks Will Grow Within Months, Putting Hospitals and Utilities at Risk

The coalition wants AI developers and governments to put defensive tools, testing, training, and support in the hands of organizations running essential services. Hospitals, water utilities, and other essential services face a limited period to improve their cyber defenses before AI-enabled attacks become more widespread and sophisticated, the signatories of a new open letter warn.

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Nvidia Optimizes DeepSeek and Qwen as It Warns U.S. Limits Could Hit Business

The company is making its stack easier to use with prominent Chinese open models, but the potential limits it flagged have not been defined as a final rule. Nvidia is deepening support for Chinese open AI models while warning investors that prospective U.S. restrictions on such support could materially affect its business. The distinction matters because open models can be downloaded, modified and self-hosted.

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LaunchTools

OpenAI’s 10-Day WebMCP Challenge Pushes Websites to Expose Tools for AI Agents

The contest is an early test of whether sites will publish agent-facing actions instead of relying only on interfaces designed for human clicks. OpenAI has opened a 10-day WebMCP Challenge around an experimental web standard that lets a site define structured actions an AI agent can use directly. That is a different model from asking an agent to treat a page primarily as a visual workspace.

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EarningsBusiness

Salesforce Reports $3.4B AI-and-Data ARR as ServiceNow Tops $1B AI ACV

The companies are pursuing overlapping enterprise AI ambitions from different starting points: Salesforce is attaching agents to its CRM and data stack, while ServiceNow is selling governance across workflows, agents and models. Enterprise AI spending is increasingly a fight over the software that connects models to company data and daily work. Salesforce is positioning Agentforce as an agentic CRM platform.

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Microsoft Turns AI Governance Into Runtime Controls Across Nine Domains

The design connects policy to enforcement, telemetry and audit records, but its operational path runs through Foundry and a set of Microsoft security, identity and API services. Microsoft has set out an AI governance architecture that moves the work from documented policy toward runtime enforcement, continuous evaluation, observability and audit evidence for applications and agents in production.

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