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Amazon's cloud business is accelerating again, and it is spending as if that acceleration is only the start. The company reported third-quarter results on Thursday that showed Amazon Web Services growing faster than it has in nearly five years, a record operating margin for the company as a whole, and a cash outflow large enough to send the shares down anyway.

Who pays for the electricity that AI eats? Three senators just published their answer: you do — and Big Tech likes it that way.

On October 9, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Richard Blumenthal released a 27-page report, Power and Profits: How the AI Data Center Boom Costs Households and Communities, the product of a nearly yearlong investigation into AI data centers' impact on communities. The inquiry began with information requests sent December 15, 2025, to seven companies: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, CoreWeave, Digital Realty, and Equinix.

Jeff Bezos thinks AI could hand workers something no union has ever secured: a three-day workweek.

Washington just put AI companies to work for science — on an unprecedented scale.

At the White House's "Science: A New Golden Age" summit on October 8, the Trump administration announced that eleven technology companies had committed $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission, the federal initiative using AI to accelerate scientific discovery across energy, health, space, and national security. The pledges are part of a broader package the administration billed as a $6 billion-plus push for U.S.-led innovation.