AI

AWS revenue growth accelerated to 36.7% year over year—the fastest in 18 quarters—with AI and core services driving each other’s growth.

Amazon Ads generated $19.8 billion of revenue in Q2, up 26% year over year, powered by AI tools, conversational shopping, and multi-sport streaming strategies.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on how the Stores team is expanding selection, delivering at record speeds, growing Grocery and Pharmacy, and using AI to make shopping even easier.

Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.  Awarded jointly by the Bavarian State Government and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, it

This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research.  With recent cuts to National Science Foundation programs and continued uncertainty surrounding the federal research budget, these conversations were especially timely. Over the course of just two days, participants met with

Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.

Open weight models have become powerful enough to handle complex tasks such as multi-step agentic workflows, advanced reasoning, and long-horizon coding. However, as these models grow in capability, they also grow in size and hosting multi-trillion parameter architectures requires purpose-built infrastructure, high-end GPU compute, and optimized serving frameworks. On July 27, 2026, Moonshot AI released

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

Connecting user search intent with relevant ad experiences across channels is a longstanding challenge in digital advertising. Advertisers need sophisticated ways to reach audiences based on their demonstrated interests and behaviors, particularly their search activity, which is one of the strongest signals of user intent. Traditional keyword expansion approaches often struggle with outdated vocabulary, limited