AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC : AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models —  Amazon has found a way to let cloud clients extensively customize generative AI models.  The catch is that the system costs $100,000 per year.

AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC : AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models —  Amazon has found a way to let cloud clients extensively customize generative AI models.  The catch is that the system costs $100,000 per year.

Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM codenamed Garlic, which performs well when compared to Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM codenamed Garlic, which performs well when compared to Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM codenamed Garlic, which performs well when compared to Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks —  OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.

Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM codenamed Garlic, which performs well when compared to Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM codenamed Garlic, which performs well when compared to Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM codenamed Garlic, which performs well when compared to Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks —  OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.

This 7-port USB-C hub with 4K HDMI is now cheaper than on Black Friday

This 7-port USB-C hub with 4K HDMI is now cheaper than on Black Friday

USB-C hubs are among the most useful accessories you can have if you mainly use a laptop, and doubly so if your laptop doesn’t have many ports to begin with. With a USB-C hub, you can add tons of extra ports to your laptop and make it that much more compatible with various gadgets and peripherals. This 7-port Ugreen USB-C hub is only $17 right now , which is even cheaper than it was on Black Friday! View this Amazon deal The first thing about this hub is that you don’t have to worry about it taking up your only USB-C port and preventing your laptop from charging. It has a 100W power delivery port that lets you charge your laptop while still using the other ports in the hub. What are those other ports? The big one is the 4K HDMI for plugging in a high-res external monitor. There’s also a fast USB-C as well as two fast USB-A ports that all reach 5Gbps of data transfer, and it’s rounded out with both SD and microSD card slots. Those will let you read and transfer data from your phone, digital camera, Switch, dashcam, and more. At this price, you’re usually only looking at a hub with 3 or 4 ports, and those tend to be missing HDMI and/or USB power delivery options. This is a fantastic hub for just $17, so get it while you can ! Amazon has it marked as “deal selling fast,” so who knows how long it’ll be around. Get this 7-in-1 USB-C hub for cheaper than it was on Black Friday Buy now at Amazon

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC : AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview —  Amazon's cloud unit on Tuesday announced AI-enabled software designed to help clients better understand and recover from outages.

Amazon launches second generation of its Nova AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and Nova Omni, a fully multimodal reasoning model (Will Knight/Wired)

Amazon launches second generation of its Nova AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and Nova Omni, a fully multimodal reasoning model (Will Knight/Wired)

Will Knight / Wired : Amazon launches second generation of its Nova AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and Nova Omni, a fully multimodal reasoning model —  Nova Forge lets Amazon's customers train frontier models for different tasks—a potential breakthrough in making AI actually useful for businesses.

Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Julie Bort / TechCrunch : Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips —  Amazon Web Services, which has been building its own AI training chips for years now, just introduced a new version known as Trainium3 that comes with some impressive specs.

Amazon launches Trainium3, claiming the AI chip is 4x faster than its previous gen and can cut AI training and operating costs by up to 50% vs. equivalent GPUs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Amazon launches Trainium3, claiming the AI chip is 4x faster than its previous gen and can cut AI training and operating costs by up to 50% vs. equivalent GPUs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal : Amazon launches Trainium3, claiming the AI chip is 4x faster than its previous gen and can cut AI training and operating costs by up to 50% vs. equivalent GPUs —  The company will start selling its Trainium3 processors as AI companies are looking to diversify their supply of data-center chips