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- SAG-AFTRA board approves agreement with game companies on AI and new contractby Dean Takahashi on June 13, 2025 at 12:04 am
The SAG-AFTRA National Board approved the tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group, setting up a membership vote.
- Meta’s new world model lets robots manipulate objects in environments they’ve never encountered beforeby Ben Dickson on June 12, 2025 at 10:22 pm
A robot powered by V-JEPA 2 can be deployed in a new environment and successfully manipulate objects it has never encountered before.
- Cloud collapse: Replit and LlamaIndex knocked offline by Google Cloud identity outageby Emilia David on June 12, 2025 at 10:05 pm
Many AI developers started their morning amid a Google Cloud outage affecting many of the tools they use to build products.
AWS News Blog Announcements, Updates, and Launches
- AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, Amazon Q Developer, EC2 GPU price reduction, and more (June 9, 2025)by Betty Zheng (郑予彬) on June 9, 2025 at 5:34 pm
The AWS Heroes program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. Heroes go above and beyond to share knowledge in a variety of ways in developer community. We introduce our newest AWS Heroes in the second quarter of 2025. To find and connect
- Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Regionby Betty Zheng (郑予彬) on June 6, 2025 at 1:11 am
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region is generally available with three Availability Zones and Region code ap-east-2. The new Region brings AWS infrastructure and services closer to customers in Taiwan. Skyline of Taipei including the Taipei 101 building As the first infrastructure Region in Taipei and the fifteenth Region
- Introducing AWS API models and publicly available resources for AWS API definitionsby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on June 5, 2025 at 8:18 pm
AWS now provides daily updates of Smithy API models on GitHub, enabling developers to build custom SDK clients, understand AWS API behaviors, and create developer tools for better AWS service integration.