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Coogan: The Information Reported Amazon's Jassy Raised AI Jailbreak Concerns With White House
“Then the information reported that Andy Jassy at Amazon had raised concerns with the senior administration officials about jailbreaking. The risk of jailbreaking fable and getting access to all of Anthropic.”
Kovacevich: FTC and DOJ divided Big Tech targets rather than subject matter
“What happened was about six years ago, the FTC and the Justice Department, they share responsibility for antitrust. They got together and they said, they basically struck a deal and they said, okay, FTC, you get Meta and Amazon and DOJ, you get Google and Appl…”
Columbia suspended Roy Lee for a year after his Amazon interview stunt
“Amazon reported me to Columbia. Amazon is mad. Columbia is mad. And this ends up being a spat that I sort of publicize on my Twitter. It becomes this big spectacle and I eventually get kicked out of Columbia or suspended for a year. And I'm blacklisted from mo…”
Lessin: MrBeast spent more on his Amazon show than his $100M deal
“Like, you know, the, you know, everyone's excited that he gets a hundred million dollar Amazon contract, but then he spends more than that on the show, right?”
Gerstner: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all token constrained
“Google was token constrained. They said if we had more tokens, we'd be able to generate more revenue. Same for Amazon, same for Microsoft, same from OpenAI, same from Anthropic.”
Jalali: SALT & STONE is the best-selling deodorant brand on Amazon
“We're the best selling deodorant on Amazon.”
Hays: OpenAI raised $110B round from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank
“OpenAI raised a hundred and ten billion dollar round of funding from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank.”
Amazon Acquires Satellite Operator Globalstar in $10.8 Billion Deal
“Amazon's buying satellite operator Global Star in a deal that The company's estimated at about 10.8 billion seeking to build a business connecting consumer smartphones with satellite internet connections.”
Amazon Agrees to Power iPhone and Apple Watch Satellite Services
“Amazon said Tuesday that it agreed to a deal with Apple to power satellite services for its iPhone and Apple Watch and to work together on future satellite services using LEO's growing network.”
Amazon buys the first new American-produced copper in over a decade
“Amazon's buying the first new copper produced in America in over a decade.”
Coogan: Amazon has not signed an agentic commerce deal with OpenAI
“Amazon has not done a deal yet with OpenAI for the agentic commerce thing.”
Coogan: Anthropic's next major cluster will run on Amazon
“I believe Anthropic is pretty tightly hitched to Amazon, and I think the next big cluster from Anthropic will be powered by Amazon for the most part”
Hays: Amazon acquired Bee, an always-listening smart bracelet maker
“Amazon acquired a company it got announced this week called B, which is a bracelet after, after all, everything they faced with Siri, Siri's listening to me. The B band just listens to you all day long. Every single conversation. Everything.”
Coogan: Amazon is spending $100 billion on CapEx in 2025
“They're spending a hundred billion dollars in capex this year as part of a push to build generative AI services.”
Ferrara: Drake partnered with Amazon to distribute all of his merchandise
“He's, this is his actual plot to take over Amazon music as a distribution platform, but he's working with Amazon to sell all of his merch and all of his goods through their storefront and basically facilitate all their distribute distribution through there.”