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• [New] Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is in early talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google over revenue-sharing agreements that could bring its Kimi K3 model to Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Tech Startups - Tech News, Tech Trends & Startup Fundin
• [New] Amazon requires a clear 10-foot radius around the delivery point - free of people, pets, vehicles, and tall objects - before a drone will release a package, and every flight path must be approved by the FAA. blogmind360.com
• [New] Retail giant Amazon will expand drone delivery to nearly 500 cities and towns in the United States - a sixfold increase from its current footprint - by the end of 2026. ABC News
• [New] Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and similar text filters work well enough for governance and content safety, but they will not catch SQL injection buried inside a tool payload, nor will they contain the dynamic reasoning of an autonomous agent. theregister
• [New] Amazon Prime Air plans to launch drone delivery services in select U.S. cities by 2026, aiming to enhance last-mile logistics. 6wresearch
• [New] Amazon has acquired a massive off-grid power plant being built in Texas for one of its data centers that could be one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Wired
• [New] Audio from streams could be used to refine speech-to-text models, improving captions on Twitch as well as across Amazon. theregister
• [New] In Central America, the Caribbean, northern South America, and the Amazon Basin, drier and hotter conditions may increase the risk of drought, water scarcity, food insecurity, wildfires, heat stress, respiratory illness, and arboviral disease transmission. PubMed Central (PMC)
• [New] Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Google now plan to spend $725 billion on capital expenditures in 2026. Last Week in ConTech
• [New] Amazon has announced that it will have a useful quantum computer by 2028. O'Reilly Radar
• [New] Amazon indicated it will increase AI infrastructure spending in 2026, yet still expects capacity to trail customer demand. DataCenterKnowledge
• [New] Amazon jumped following stronger-than-expected operating profits, signaling that massive capital expenditure outlays are beginning to translate into accelerated enterprise revenue. X (formerly Twitter)
• [New] The top five hyperscaler data centers, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle are projected to spend $600 billion on infrastructure in 2026, $450 billion which targets AI infrastructure. LinkedIn
• [New] Japan: Amazon plans to expand its $15 billion cloud computing business in Japan with investments in its cloud computing infrastructure. Precedence Research
• Fastest Growing Segment: AI ASICs are the fastest-growing component type, with Omdia forecasting AI ASIC revenue to reach US$ 84.5 billion by 2030 as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft scale proprietary silicon deployments across hyperscale data centers. Persistence Market Research
• The nuclear deals are the most important strategic response: Microsoft restarting Three Mile Island for 835 MW in 2028, Google signing the first corporate SMR fleet deal for 500 MW in 2030-2035, Amazon securing 1.92 GW from Susquehanna. AI Business Weekly
• Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta are expected to spend more than $700bn on AI infrastructure in 2026, while Britain is competing to attract new data centers and computing capacity. City AM
• Amazon is focused on building infrastructure that will grow its core AWS business as well as expanding its AI business. tradingkey.com

Last updated: 30 August 2026