As questions swirl around the impact that artificial intelligence will have on programming jobs, Amazon.com Inc.’s chief technology officer is departing the keynote stage for good. Speaking on the final day of the AWS re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas, as he has done for the past 14 years, Werner Vogels (pictured) told the audience that, though ...

When Michael Dell (pictured) launched his computer company from a dorm room at the University of Texas in 1984, he envisioned a world where the personal computer would be a device everyone would want. More than 40 years later, he finds himself still meeting that need, adapting PC technology for the new world of artificial ...

As artificial intelligence pushes deeper into everyday systems, the idea of an AI teammate is starting to look less like a theory and more like a technical blueprint for how digital work will get done. Amazon Web Services Inc. is now developing that blueprint with a stack built for autonomous agents that can collaborate, reason ...

The seamless shopping experience is apparently gaining traction for the Just Walk Out technology developed by Amazon Web Services Inc. The Just Walk Out platform leverages a combination of AI, computer vision, sensors and radio frequency identification to let customers walk into a store, pick up an item and exit. AWS has made numerous enhancements ...

After unveiling a major expansion of the Nova foundation model platform to encompass frontier artificial intelligence reasoning on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services Inc. today shifted its focus to the tools and platforms supporting agents. A key element for AWS is ease of use, a recognition that AI’s inherent complexity can be an obstacle to enterprise deployment ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. envisions a world in which billions of AI agents will be working together. That will take a significant advance in frontier model reasoning, and the company made several major announcements today to make this dream a reality. “Why not?” is the cloud giant’s central re:Invent conference tagline this week, and AWS ...

The conversation around high-performance computing has changed dramatically in less than four years. What used to be a focus on the latest processors — “speeds and feeds” — has now evolved into whole new software stacks powered by advanced chipsets from vendors such as Nvidia Corp. and others. AI is rewriting the rules of infrastructure ...

It has been two years since Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of virtualization powerhouse VMware Inc. was finalized, changing the landscape for the enterprise private cloud. The transition was significant in the private cloud arena. Companies noted higher prices and reduced marketing resources from VMware, while a simplified subscription model and renewed focus on top-tier firms have fueled ...

A new performance wall is emerging as next-generation systems strain under skyrocketing model demands, especially when artificial intelligence workloads push AI inferencing engines beyond what conventional memory tiers can handle. WekaIO Inc.’s newest release, built in collaboration with Nvidia Corp., takes direct aim at that constraint with a redesigned memory extension layer. By streaming key-value ...

One of the largest players in the data infrastructure market announced on Tuesday that it would be teaming up with Microsoft Corp. to power the next wave of agentic AI. Vast Data Inc. will be collaborating with Microsoft on its Azure platform to provide customers with high-performance AI infrastructure in the cloud. Enterprises will have ...