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No, you probably don’t owe AWS billions of dollars. But man, what a jumpscare to start the weekend.
Here are the 7 things you missed today:
1. 👑 Apple Passed Nvidia to Become the World’s Most Valuable Company
Nvidia has been dethroned. Apple reclaimed its position as the world’s most valuable company today, overtaking Nvidia as its market market capitalization climbed to $4.9 trillion against the AI chipmaker's $4.8 trillion. Apple is reclaiming the top spot for the first time since April 2025. Nvidia has been holding the seat since last June when it overtook Microsoft. (Quartz)
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3. 🪲 Amazon is Fixing a Bug That Billed AWS Customers Billions of Dollars
You might want to check your AWS bill… some Amazon cloud customers woke up to a surprise bill estimate today saying they owed billions of dollars for cloud services they never used. Amazon confirmed its trying to resolve the billing portal bug, as rollbacks of the charges didn’t resolve the issue. (TechCrunch)
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5. 👀 Anthropic is in Early Talks With Meta to Acquire Compute Power
If you can’t beat ‘em, lease from ‘em? According to The New York Times, Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a potential deal being valued at about $10 billion. The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a similar deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use the computing capacity at its Colossus 1 data center. (CNBC)
6. 🛑 Patreon is Blocking AI From Scraping its Content For Training
Creator membership platform Patreon is really cracking down on AI scraping its content for training purposes. The company shared this week that it’s working with internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare to directly block access to AI bots designed to train their AI models on creators’ work without permission. (TechCrunch)
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7. 🧑💼 Walmart’s Shaking Up its Top Leadership
Walmart’s top U.S. leadership is shuffling around. Chief Operating Officer Kiernan Shanahan is set to leave the company this week and will be replaced by Kyle Kinnard, who currently serves as COO for Walmart International. (Wall Street Journal)
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