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Amazon Web Services ended 2025 with its highest quarterly growth rate in more than three years. The company reported Thursday that its cloud services business posted revenue of $35.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025. This was a 24% increase over the previous year, marking the division’s largest growth rate in 13 quarters. According to Amazon, this business unit has an annual revenue run rate of $142 billion. Cloud services operating income also increased from $12.5 billion in the fourth quarter and $10.6 billion in the same period in 2024. “Achieving 24% year-over-year growth at an annualized run rate…
The AI industry can sometimes seem like a competition to see who can spend the most money on data centers. It is believed that whoever builds the most data centers will have the most computing power and therefore be able to build the best AI products, which will guarantee victory in the coming years. This way of thinking has its limits. Traditionally, businesses ultimately succeed by making more money and spending less. But this idea has proven very persuasive to big tech companies. If it’s a contest, Amazon appears to be winning. The company announced in its earnings call Thursday…
Approximately 90% of people will become infected with the Epstein-Barr virus at some point in their lives. In most cases, the virus causes a mild, transient illness or no symptoms at all. However, for some people, Epstein Barr may ultimately contribute to the development of chronic diseases such as lupus or multiple sclerosis, or cancer.Now, a new study has uncovered 22 human genes that may increase the likelihood that Epstein-Barr infection progresses to chronic disease.Researchers cannot yet say for sure whether these genes directly make the Epstein-Barr virus more dangerous, or whether they are part of an underlying immune suppression…
Spotted Lambo spread across the United States with relentless speed. And now we have a clue as to why. Living in cities appears to have made these invasive insects more resistant to stress.”Cities may act as evolutionary incubators that allow invasive species to better cope with pressures such as heat and pesticides, which may allow them to better adapt to new environments,” lead author Fallon (Fang) Meng, a biologist at New York University, told Live Science.Lycorma delicatula is a planthopper that uses long mouthparts to suck sap from plants. The insect is native to China but has spread to South…
Scientists have experimentally shown for the first time that bonobos (Pan paniscus), our closest living relatives along with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), are capable of pretend play previously thought to be unique to humans.Kanji, a unique bonobo that can understand English, was able to track imaginary juices and grapes during pretend tea parties, much like a 2-year-old, according to a study published in the journal Science on Thursday, February 5th.Kanji, who passed away in March 2025, did not initiate pretend play himself, but his ability to follow it shows he had some of the mental building blocks needed to imagine pretend…
On Friday, when SpaceX submitted plans for a 1 million-satellite data center network to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), you might have thought Elon Musk was having a little fun with us. But after a week, it became clear that he was serious. The most obvious step, of course, is the formal merger of SpaceX and xAI, which moved forward on Monday, and if any joint infrastructure projects are planned, it would formally unite Musk’s space and AI ventures in a more meaningful way. But even beyond mergers, we’re starting to see the idea of orbital AI data clusters (essentially…
Get ready to take some out-of-this-world selfies. NASA astronauts will be allowed to take smartphones into space for the first time with the Crew-12 and Artemis II missions. Crew-12 is scheduled to head to the International Space Station next week, but the long-awaited Artemis II mission, which will put humans around the moon for the first time since the 1960s, has been postponed to March. “We are giving our crew members the tools to capture special family moments and share inspiring images and videos with the world,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman wrote in X. With the latest iPhones and Android…
OpenAI has launched new products to help enterprises navigate the world of AI agents, focusing on agent management as a critical infrastructure for enterprise AI deployments. On Thursday, AI giant OpenAI announced the launch of OpenAI Frontier, an end-to-end platform designed to build and manage AI agents for enterprises. Since it is an open platform, users can also manage agents built outside of OpenAI. Frontier users can program AI agents to connect to external data and applications, allowing them to perform tasks far outside the OpenAI platform. Of course, users can also limit and control what these agents can access…
Jets from supermassive black holes become more energetic over time, and are now thought to be one of the most energetic objects in the universe.The jet, dubbed the Jetty McJet Face, originated from a previously studied black hole in 2022, which grabbed a star and began smashing it into pieces, ejecting jets in the process. Nearly four years later, researchers say that “cosmic indigestion” still persists.”This is truly unusual,” Yvette Sendes, an astrophysicist at the University of Oregon who led the study published Feb. 5 in the Astrophysical Journal, said in a statement. “It’s hard to imagine anything going up…
On Thursday, Anthropic released the latest version of Opus. This is the most advanced model and one of particular importance to Claude Code. Opus 4.5 was only released last November, but with 4.6, the company has expanded the model’s capabilities and appeal to accommodate a more diverse range of applications and customers. Perhaps the most notable addition to the latest version of Opus is the inclusion of what the company calls “agent teams,” or teams of agents that can break down larger tasks into smaller jobs. “Rather than having one agent take turns handling a task, you can divide the…