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02/24/2026 | News release | Distributed by Public on 02/24/2026 04:14
What you need to know about Amazon today: February 24, 2026
Amazon is one of the world's leading corporate purchasers of carbon-free energy, with over 700 projects globally totaling more than 40 gigawatts-enough to power 12.1 million U.S. homes. These investments add new carbon-free energy sources to the grid, modernize infrastructure, stabilize electricity costs, and create thousands of jobs. Amazon's leadership in this space, recognized by BloombergNEF, is helping drive corporate momentum toward carbon-free energy procurement, which benefits entire communities by adding low-cost clean energy to the grid while supporting America's technological innovation.
AWS powers AI inference-the split-second process where trained AI models take your question and generate an answer-through a four-stage pipeline (tokenization, prefill, decode, detokenization) that typically completes in under two seconds, with inference accounting for 80-90% of AI computing power. The rise of AI agents, which coordinate multiple models to accomplish complex multi-step tasks rather than simple single predictions, creates new challenges including massive compute demands, critical latency requirements, exponential costs, and reliability needs that traditional cloud infrastructure wasn't built to handle. AWS addresses these challenges through innovations like Project Mantle (a new inference engine powering Amazon Bedrock), custom Trainium chips providing up to 40% cost reduction, intelligent request prioritization across different urgency levels, continuous checkpointing through Journal that allows failed requests to resume without restarting, and unified network architecture that eliminates delays between storage and processing-making AI faster, more reliable, and more affordable at scale.
Park Min-young and Wi Hajun will star in Siren's Kiss, a gripping Korean romantic thriller. The show will premiere exclusively on Prime Video March 2, with new episodes available weekly. The series centers on Cha Woo-seok, an ace insurance fraud investigator, who becomes dangerously entangled with Han Seol-ah, a stunning art auctioneer whose three fiancés have mysteriously died. To uncover the truth, Woo-seok proposes they fake a relationship, but soon realizes he may have entered a deadly web. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Kim Cheolgyu, known for Flower of Evil and Celebrity, the series blurs the line between obsession and love. Available in over 240 countries, Siren's Kiss joins Prime Video's extensive Korean drama collection, including Spring Feverand Confidence Queen, accessible through Amazon Prime membership.
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