Amazon will put at least $20 million into building out its AI infrastructure in Pennsylvania, the company has announced.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Jun 24 2025
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U.K. SHORT ON COMPUTING POWER TO DEVELOP AI, HUANG SAYS
The U.K. is putting together the pieces of a first-rate AI ecosystem but still lacks the computing infrastructure to make the most of it, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said earlier this month.
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GOOGLE’S GEMINI IS NOW A BRITISH CIVIL SERVANT
At the London Tech Week extravaganza this month, U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer extolled the virtues of Extract, a new AI tool to help local planning commissions.
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CHINESE STARTUP SAYS IT’S BETTER THAN DEEPSEEK
MiniMax, yet another Chinese AI developer, says its new, open-source MiniMax-M1 model, is more efficient than closed-source Chinese competitors and also bests DeepSeek's latest R1-0528 model in several standard tests.
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TRAIN ‘EM YOUNG: OPENAI, TOYMAKER MATTEL FORM PARTNERSHIP
OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT and Mattel, parent of Barbie and Ken, have announced a “strategic collaboration” to build OpenAI’s technology into Mattel’s toys to “bring the magic of AI to age-appropriate play experiences,” according to the company.
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AI WILL ALLOW AMAZON TO CUT WHITE-COLLAR JOBS, CEO SAYS
Amazon’s office workers have been told they’re in danger of being replaced by bots, according to a 17 June memo from CEO Andy Jassy.
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MAJOR AI DEVELOPERS WANT 10-YEAR BAN ON STATE REGULATIONS
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are among tech firms urging the U.S. Senate to preserve a measure in the “big beautiful” omnibus bill that would ban individual states from enacting AI regulations for the next 10 years.