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The New York Times says president Musk “was not initially expected to be part of the dinner but joined as it was underway.” Images originally shared on a now deleted Instagram story from a person who is reportedly “at Mar-a-lago a lot,” described the scene as follows:

When it launched a new lineup of Kindles this fall, Amazon also mentioned a new packaging design with more recycled fiber content, less ink, and tactile-marked QR codes for instructions instead of paper.

Taipei wants to make its communications networks less vulnerable to Chinese attack. Starlink isn’t an option because of Musk’s business ties to China and his company’s refusal to relinquish control in a joint venture. And Eutelsat’s OneWeb constellation of low Earth satellites isn’t up to snuff, according to technology minister Wu Cheng-wen:

Amazon now says it plans to invest $10 billion to “help meet rapidly growing demand for cloud computing and AI,” up from a $7.8 billion figure announced in 2023.

Zheng Gao worked at Tesla for eight years, most recently as head of autopilot hardware design. He also spent nine years at Apple on its connector and input device product design team. At Zoox, he’ll lead the hardware engineering team, where he’ll be under pressure to meet the Amazon-owned company’s deadline to launch a commercial robotaxi service in 2025. Zoox’s co-founder has previously dinged Tesla for promoting self-driving technology that “doesn’t work.”

Say “thank my driver” to an Alexa-enabled device, or search for the phrase on the Amazon website or app, and Amazon will give your most recent delivery driver $5 at no added cost. Just like last year, Amazon will continue the program until it reaches 2 million thank yous.

Even Amazon Music is getting in on the yearly recap trend, as its app will now show your top songs, artists, and podcasts of the year, along with other interesting stats under the “2024 Delivered” banner.

Amazon has added games like Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Dredge, and Gunslinger: Call of Juarez to its list of free game downloads for Prime members.

Workers in more than 20 countries including the US, India, Germany, Japan, and Brazil are currently on strike or protesting, coinciding with Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

According to The Information, the retail giant might be unveiling its flagship LLM at its AWS re:Invent conference next week. The AI model can reportedly analyze images and videos and find specific scenes via text prompts, such as a winning basketball shot.

Bloomberg explores Amazon’s $8 billion partnership with Anthropic that could advance Amazon’s Trainium hardware and software tools enough for the AWS provider to cut into Nvidia’s stranglehold on the $100-billion-plus market for AI chips: