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06/18/2026 | News release | Distributed by Public on 06/18/2026 01:44
What you need to know about Amazon today: June 18, 2026
Prime Day 2026 deals preview: See the best deals to shop June 23-26
Prime Day returns June 23-26, giving Prime members four days to shop millions of member-exclusive deals starting June 23 at 12:01 a.m. PT. This year's event delivers deep discounts on big-ticket items members have been waiting to shop-plus savings on all your summer must-haves, from outdoor entertaining and beach vacations to watching sporting events and getting ready for back-to-school.
Prime Day returns June 23-26, giving Prime members four days to shop millions of member-exclusive deals starting June 23 at 12:01 a.m. PT. This year's event delivers deep discounts on big-ticket items members have been waiting to shop-plus savings on all your summer must-haves, from outdoor entertaining and beach vacations to watching sporting events and getting ready for back-to-school.
AWS Summit New York 2026: AI Innovations help customers accelerate how they work, build software, deliver security and create production-ready agents
The launch of AWS Continuum and AWS Context, along with capabilities across Amazon Quick, Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent, AWS Transform and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, highlight how AWS is helping customers use agents to work more effectively.
The launch of AWS Continuum and AWS Context, along with capabilities across Amazon Quick, Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent, AWS Transform and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, highlight how AWS is helping customers use agents to work more effectively.
Amazon's AI SVP on why AI's biggest breakthroughs haven't happened yet
At VivaTech 2026 in Paris, Amazon SVP Peter DeSantis said AI needs "a couple more orders of magnitude" of improvement before it becomes truly transformative, noting "we are just at the beginning of innovation at all layers of the stack." DeSantis stated the next wave of progress depends on chips and models developing in lockstep to create "a flywheel of better models, better chips, lower cost, and better efficiency," and that entirely new architectures beyond today's transformers will be needed for AI to respond at the speed of human interaction-"a 40-millisecond clock." Despite this, DeSantis said, "I believe humans are still going to be at the center of our most complex innovations for the foreseeable future."
At VivaTech 2026 in Paris, Amazon SVP Peter DeSantis said AI needs "a couple more orders of magnitude" of improvement before it becomes truly transformative, noting "we are just at the beginning of innovation at all layers of the stack." DeSantis stated the next wave of progress depends on chips and models developing in lockstep to create "a flywheel of better models, better chips, lower cost, and better efficiency," and that entirely new architectures beyond today's transformers will be needed for AI to respond at the speed of human interaction-"a 40-millisecond clock." Despite this, DeSantis said, "I believe humans are still going to be at the center of our most complex innovations for the foreseeable future."
The AI startups building beyond chatbots are choosing Amazon's custom chips. Here's why.
AI startups building world models-which simulate physics rather than generate text-are choosing AWS Trainium chips over alternatives for training. Odyssey achieved 80% model flop utilization on Trainium, roughly double the industry average. AWS offers both Trainium and Nvidia GPUs, giving customers flexibility. Beyond major partners like Anthropic and OpenAI, these emerging startups signal where AI is heading beyond the chatbot era.
AI startups building world models-which simulate physics rather than generate text-are choosing AWS Trainium chips over alternatives for training. Odyssey achieved 80% model flop utilization on Trainium, roughly double the industry average. AWS offers both Trainium and Nvidia GPUs, giving customers flexibility. Beyond major partners like Anthropic and OpenAI, these emerging startups signal where AI is heading beyond the chatbot era.
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