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Nintendo's latest sale is 'made possible' by the tariff refunds it's hoarding34m ago Meta Announces Muse AI Agent for Personal Tasks and Organization35m ago Instagram now lets you add tagged photos to your profile grid35m ago AI agents are flooding public services with new requests41m ago Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,99942m ago An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are 'gambling with our lives'43m ago Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities52m ago Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware1h ago OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit1h ago 10 of the scariest AI villains in movie history1h ago Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal1h ago Agent Security Is Not AI Governance: Why Conflating The Two Is A Risk Enterprises Can't Afford1h ago Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges1h ago 7 Steps to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer in 20262h ago

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Amazon just shut its AGI Lab, and quit a race it never led

The Next WebPublished Jul 24, 2026

Amazon has closed its AGI Lab in San Francisco after 18 months, laying off staff and shifting focus from developing general AI to selling AI infrastructure and services. Key leaders of the AGI efforts have departed, and the company now emphasizes supporting AI through AWS and investments in external models like Anthropic.

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