AWS Chip Revenue Hits Billions
Summary
The aggressive investment in custom silicon and the widespread security risks highlight the high-stakes, rapidly maturing landscape of enterprise AI infrastructure.
- AWS Chip Revenue Andy Jassy confirmed the new Trainium3 chip is already a multibillion-dollar business, offering 4x the speed of Trainium2 2.
- VC Investment Strategy Venture capitalists are deploying ‘kingmaking’ strategies, exemplified by Lightspeed and Khosla leading DualEntry’s $90M Series A 1.
- Security Failure Reverse engineering of a $1B Legal AI tool exposed over 100,000 confidential files due to a critical vulnerability 12.
- AWS Tool Adoption Amazon is offering Kiro Pro+ coding tool free to early-stage startups to jump-start adoption following its announcement at re:Invent 5.
- Agent Focus at re:Invent AWS heavily featured announcements focused on enterprise AI agents capable of independent task execution 4.
- $90 million - Series A funding raised by AI ERP startup DualEntry in early October 1.
- 4x faster - The performance improvement of the new Trainium3 chip over Trainium2 2.
- 100,000+ - Confidential files exposed after reverse engineering a major legal AI platform 12.
- £110K - £155K GBP - Salary range offered for a Senior AI Engineer role at Saturn 9.
Key Moments
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Amazon’s Nvidia competitor chip [Trainium3] is already a multibillion-dollar business
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VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy
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Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
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Amazon hopes to jump-start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups
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Deep Agents harness shipped four applications including the DeepAgents CLI
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Phind 3 instantly builds complete, interactive mini-apps featuring images, charts, and maps
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Hired former Apple design executive Alan Dye to lead a new creative studio in Reality Labs
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Report signals a turning point for health AI in Europe, announced at the European Health Summit
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Uncloud allows deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
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Everyone in Seattle hates AI, contrasting sharply with positive reactions elsewhere
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Different Perspectives
Supporting View
The rapid development of agentic capabilities is confirmed, with LangChain shipping multiple applications leveraging the Deep Agents harness [6].
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Opposing View
There is noticeable local negativity towards AI among Seattle engineers, contrasting with adoption elsewhere [7].
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