News Summary

• AWS announced Monday it is investing $50 billion to build AI “high-performance computing infrastructure” The buildout is meant to expand federal government agencies’ access to AWS AI services.
• The project will add 1.3 gigawatts of compute and will expand government access to Amazon SageMaker AI, model customization, Amazon Bedrock, model deployment, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbot.
• Tech giants have increasingly pitched their AI services to the U.S. government over the past year.