Amazon names leaders for AI models, silicon development, and frontier model research

CEO Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant will tap senior cloud infrastructure executive Peter DeSantis to lead a newly formed ...

Keystroke lag alerts Amazon security staff that recent US-based IT hire was actually in North Korea

It turns out the employee with the lag was in fact a North Korean attempting to skirt international sanctions and funnel money back into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (or DPRK) via remote ...

Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad leaving; infrastructure exec Peter DeSantis to lead unified AI group

AI researcher Pieter Abbeel, who joined the company last year when Amazon hired the founders of robotics startup Covariant, ...