Neura Robotics, a German robotics startup, has secured a Series C financing round worth up to $1.4 billion, making it one of Europe's largest artificial intelligence funding rounds. The round attracted backing from influential technology companies, including Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm, and European industrial giants Bosch and Schaeffler. The fundraising values Neura at roughly $7 billion, catapulting the company into the ranks of the world's most valuable robotics startups. The financing is structured around performance targets, with the [...]

Amazon has claimed its data centers are 7 times more water-efficient than the industry average, with a 52% improvement in water efficiency over the last 5 years. The company attributes this to innovative methods such as free air and evaporative cooling, as well as increased temperature thresholds. Amazon's global data center operations used 0.12 liters of water per kilowatt-hour in 2025, compared to the industry average of 0.84 L/kWh. The tech giant is also working towards being [...]

Amazon Web Services has released its Graviton5 Arm server CPU, which is comprised of four CPU blocks with 48 V3 cores each, totaling 192 V3 cores. The Graviton5 chip is used in new M9g and M9gd instances, offering increased performance and memory capacity. The chip's design features a die-to-die interconnect, allowing for higher memory bandwidth and supporting the CXL 3.0 memory extension protocol. The Graviton5 provides 2.4X more performance per socket compared to its predecessor, the Graviton4, [...]

Amazon has secured a $17.5 billion loan from a group of banks, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and HSBC, to fund its ongoing investments in artificial intelligence. The delayed draw term loan provides Amazon with flexibility in deploying the funds. This loan comes on the heels of a $14 billion Canadian bond sale, bringing the company's total new financing to approximately $31.5 billion in just 48 hours. The company's AI spending has raised questions about whether the returns [...]

Amazon Web Services has launched Graviton5-powered Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, positioning the processor for emerging agentic AI workloads. The new instances are powered by the AWS Graviton5 processor, built on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro System, and double the core count of its predecessor to 192 cores. The Graviton5 processor is designed to support real-time reasoning, code generation, and multi-step task orchestration. Meta, Uber, and Snowflake are adopting the platform for AI-related workloads, with over 120,000 [...]

The Federal Communications Commission has granted Amazon a waiver to miss the July 30 deadline for deploying half of its planned 3,232 broadband satellites. Amazon has launched only 331 satellites, or 10% of its proposed Gen 1 constellation, due to a lack of available rockets. The waiver comes with a temporary loss of spectrum priority, giving rivals like SpaceX more leverage in orbit. Amazon still aims to meet the full constellation deployment deadline of July 30, 2029. [...]