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Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests

July 18, 2025

Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Thursday. The financing comes just one month after the six-founder team graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, underscoring investor appetite for infrastructure plays in the rapidly expanding…

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AWS doubles down on infrastructure as strategy in the AI race with SageMaker upgrades

July 11, 2025

AWS seeks to extend its market position with updates to SageMaker, its machine learning and AI model training and inference platform, adding new observability capabilities, connected coding environments and GPU cluster performance management. However, AWS continues to face…

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1Password and AWS join forces to secure AI, cloud environments for the enterprise

June 17, 2025

1Password, the Canadian password management company, announced Monday a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services that puts the firm in position to capitalize on surging enterprise demand for security tools designed for artificial intelligence and…

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AWS report: Generative AI overtakes security in global tech budgets for 2025

May 7, 2025

Generative AI tools have surpassed cybersecurity as the top budget priority for global IT leaders heading into 2025, according to a comprehensive new study released today by Amazon Web Services. The AWS Generative AI Adoption Index, which surveyed 3,739 senior IT decision makers across nine countries, reveals that 45% of organizations plan to prioritize generative AI spending over traditional IT…

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AWS exec downplays existential threat of AI, calls it a ‘mathematical parlor trick’

July 5, 2023

While there are some big names in the technology world that are worried about a potential existential threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI), Matt Wood, VP of product at AWS, is not one of them. Wood has long been a standard bearer for machine learning (ML) at AWS and…