Big Tech earnings season begins next week with Google, but the most important number won’t be profits or revenue. It will be how much these companies say they will spend on AI data centers. Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have already laid out plans to spend more than $700 billion this year. Investors know that
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If you ask tech workers what people don’t understand about working in their industry, they’ll tell you: a lot of things. In interviews with Business Insider, tech professionals at companies like Amazon, Google, and Snap challenged assumptions that their jobs consist primarily of coding, that AI has made their jobs easier, and that Big Tech
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These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding: “Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues
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It’s no secret that AI is a hog, consuming energy and water like no digital technology before. We now know how much Big Tech’s pursuit of AI is costing the environment. Both Google and Amazon released their sustainability reports this week and the numbers aren’t pretty. Every company has committed to reducing their carbon emissions
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On today’s episode, Variety’s Brian Steinberg reports on the triple-header kickoff of Upfronts week after attending Monday’s NBCUniversal, Fox and Amazon Prime Video presentations. He parses each platform’s pitch to Madison Avenue. And we’ll hear from NBCUniversal Entertainment chief business officer Liz Jenkins on risk-taking in the time of disruption, in remarks delivered this month at
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“Literally, we stopped selling to Amazon, and it’s because I wasn’t going to do something illegal. I wasn’t going to do something that would put at risk the relationship we have with other retailers. But it also set the stage to say, look, you’re not going to push me around. This is the way we
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