Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Another week, another round of announcements about robotaxis either launching or planning to in cities. Let’s take stock. Waymo started testing […]
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If Amazon Web Services’ annual re:Invent tech conference proves anything, it’s that the cloud infrastructure player is going all in on AI. AWS announced made dozens of announcements from new AI agents and updated large language models, to products with LLM and agent-building capabilities. AI for enterprise was everywhere. But are its customers just as
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After unveiling its newest Kindle Scribe and its first-ever color Kindle Scribe in September, Amazon announced on Thursday that the devices will be available to purchase starting December 10. The new Kindle Scribe has a larger 11-inch glare-free display, is just 5.4mm thick, and weighs only 400g. It’s also 40% faster when writing or turning
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Amazon is considering ending from its long-standing contract with the United States Postal Service and building out its own competing nationwide delivery network, according to the Washington Post. The current agreement between the e-commerce giant and the USPS expires in October 2026. The two sides have spent months negotiating what the next version of the
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Is there any way for another AI coding tool to worm it’s way into the hearts of startup founders — and past Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini Code Assist, GitHub CoPilot, the many other AI-wrapped VSCode forks, and vibe-coding phenoms like Replit and Lovable? Amazon wants to try using the tried-and-true method of giving its
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Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not. But there are hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue for those that can even peel off a chunk of it for themselves, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said this week. As expected, the company announced during the AWS Re:Invent conference the
Right on the heels of announcing Nova Forge, a service to train custom Nova AI models, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced more tools for enterprise customers to create their own frontier models. AWS announced new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI at its AWS re:Invent conference on Wednesday. These new capabilities are designed
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Amazon announced Wednesday that it’s introducing a new AI-powered Fire TV feature that lets viewers jump to specific movie scenes on Prime Video simply by describing them to Alexa+. “Our number one mission at Fire TV is getting you to what you want to watch—fast,” Amazon wrote in a blog post. “Today’s launch builds on
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Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced three new AI agents it calls “Frontier agents, including one designed to learn how you like to work and then operate on its own for days. Each of these agents handle different tasks such as writing code, security processes like code reviews, and automating DevOps tasks such as preventing
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New data shows ChatGPT’s growing influence as a referrer to e-commerce websites, but also how small its slice of this market is currently. According to a new analysis by mobile app insights provider Apptopia, ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% year-over-year over the Black Friday holiday shopping weekend, running from Thanksgiving Day on
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