AWS Matt Garman on working with President Trump, new Luma Ray2 AI model in Amazon Bedrock and $8 billion cloud infrastructure investment.

President Donald Trump announced an A.I. initiative called Stargate. During a press conference at the White House attended by SoftBank (SFTBF) CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle founder Larry Ellison, the returning President told reporters the initiative will invest $500 billion—equivalent to almost 2 percent of the annual U.

President Donald Trump is requiring most federal employees to return to work in person full time, a move that is likely to spark backlash and legal challenges from unions.

Tech billionaires including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos were given prime positions at Donald Trump's inauguration Monday ... is already a major government contractor, Amazon's AWS cloud computing division and Google also count the US ...

"It will ensure the future of technology. We want to keep it in this country," Trump continued, mentioning China and others as leading competitors in the rapidly-expanding industry. "I'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations.

After Donald Trump called Elon Musk an expert in "voting computers," some viewers speculated that the remark raised questions about election integrity.

WASHINGTON – US tech multi-billionaires – including Mr Elon Musk, Mr Mark Zuckerberg and Mr Jeff Bezos – were given prime positions at Mr Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan 20, in an unprecedented demonstration of their power and influence.

The allocation is part of AWS’s larger $12.7 billion planned investment across India by 2030, announced in May 2023, to meet growing demand for cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI) in the country.

Americans see the federal government as rife with corruption, inefficiency and red tape — but they’re less sure about whether Elon Musk is the right person to fix it.

It was an eye-popping crack in the Donald/Elon bromance, which is being watched closely now that Trump has given Musk the power to roam the West Wing, where he is working out of an office on the second floor, and take a hatchet to government.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

The president’s embrace of rival Sam Altman sends a not-so-subtle message to the Tesla CEO.