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12 developments involving Amazon Web Services in 3 countries and bodies. The most recent is Amazon says AWS capacity is largely sold out through 2027, 23 Oct 2026.
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- Amazon says AWS capacity is largely sold out through 2027
Companies that want large blocks of AWS computing for AI will find most of 2027 already committed; Amazon reports third-quarter results on 29 October.
- Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for its TPUs, with Meta
PyTorch code written for Nvidia GPUs can now run on Google and Amazon chips with small changes, which weakens the hold of Nvidia’s CUDA software on where models are trained and served.
- OpenAI’s DevDay: GPT-6.1 Sol, Astra Ultrafast, always-on agents and a marketplace
OpenAI is now selling agents that run unattended, a premium speed tier and a marketplace that routes enterprise spend to partners.
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, first model it rates ‘Critical’ for cyber capability
Paid ChatGPT and API users get a model OpenAI rates ‘Critical’ for cyber capability, and it refuses advanced offensive tasks such as writing proof-of-concept exploits.
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- Anthropic’s enterprise safeguards put misuse monitoring in the customer’s own cloud
The largest US banks have agreed a way to run frontier models with misuse detection but without the lab seeing their traffic.
- Pentagon signs classified-network AI deals with eight firms, leaving out Anthropic
Classified military systems will draw on eight other AI providers, and Anthropic is shut out of that work.
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- Anthropic withholds Claude Mythos Preview, gives it to defenders via Project Glasswing
Claude Mythos Preview goes only to 11 launch partners and over 40 more organisations for defensive security work, and Anthropic does not plan a general release.
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- Chile launches Latam-GPT, an open regional language model of about 70bn parameters
Latin American governments and developers gain an open model trained on regional text, an alternative base for local services that do not want to depend on US or Chinese models.
- Anthropic, Palantir and AWS bring Claude to US defence and intelligence agencies at IL6
A frontier model became available for classified US defence work through accredited infrastructure, so agencies could use it on secret data without building their own hosting.
- FERC rejects bigger Amazon data-centre load at Talen’s Susquehanna nuclear plant
Data-centre developers seeking power directly from existing plants learned that grid regulators would scrutinise co-location deals that bypass the shared grid.
- EvolutionaryScale releases ESM3 protein model and raises $142m seed round
Protein engineers got downloadable weights for a smaller ESM3 model and a lab-tested example of AI designing a working protein far from any natural sequence.
- AWS announces Trainium2 AI training chip, with Anthropic among early users
Anthropic and other AWS customers gained a non-NVIDIA option for large training runs, tied to Amazon’s investment in Anthropic.