Matt Day / Bloomberg: Analysis: in the past two years, Amazon committed to spending $148B over 15 years on data centers, including in Mississippi, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia  —  Spending spree is a show of force as the company looks to retain cloud computing edge over Microsoft and Google. Source link

Netflix is reportedly set to open brick-and-mortar retail stores called Netflix House in the US, as part of the company’s efforts to expand beyond its streaming business. As per Bloomberg, these fun spaces would allow fans to shop for merchandise, eat themed food, and engage in activities based on their favourite movies and shows, such

Financial Times: A look at an Indian court case over Byju Raveendran’s control of Byju’s, as investors, who voted to remove Raveendran last month, brace for a protracted battle  —  Once country’s most valuable start-up, Byju’s is beset with allegations of mismanagement and governance failings Source link

Amazon.com Inc. says it’s investing an additional $2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing a deal it made last year to back the artificial intelligence startup and expand a partnership between the companies. The infusion brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic, a well-regarded builder of AI tools able to generate text and analysis, to $4 billion, following

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: NYC-based Coro, which offers SMB cybersecurity tools, raised a $100M Series D led by One Peak, sources say at a $750M post-money valuation, to expand in Europe  —  Enterprises and other large organizations have long been a lucrative and obvious target for cybercriminals, but in recent years … Source link

Spotify is applying new restrictions on users who listen to music on the streaming service’s free plan in India. The company has started to place limits on how users on the free plan can play tracks, including the ability to choose the order in which songs are played on the streaming platform. The move is

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: A profile of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, as the AI surveillance and defense tech startup, which sells drones to the US, expects $1B in annual revenue by 2026  —  Silicon Valley has found a lucrative trade selling AI-powered weapons — and Palmer Luckey is leading the way Source link

Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale has brought some noteworthy deals and offers on a range of products and devices, from laptops and tablets to smartphones. If you’re in the market for a new smartphone, the ongoing Great Indian Festival is one of the best times in the year to make a purchase. Samsung Galaxy smartphones

Fortune: A look at the rise and fall of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI, including how Mostaque’s relationship with Coatue and Lightspeed blossomed and fell apart  —  In December 2022, someone was looking for Emad Mostaque.  The founder and CEO of Stability AI, one of the hottest startups in the nascent generative AI field, could

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 — out this Friday on PS5 — is easily one of our most anticipated titles of the year, building upon Insomniac Games’ original blockbuster tale to weave a new line for our spandex-wearing web crawlers. Yep, true to the name, this time we get to play as both Peter Parker and Miles