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Report: Amazon in advanced talks to acquire Israeli startup Decart for $7b.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the tech giant is conducting advanced negotiations to acquire the Israeli artificial intelligence startup.
Pilots considered aborting landing after touchdown in Miami cargo crash, NTSB says
At least five killed as Amazon-owned Boeing 767 cargo plane crashes after overshooting Miami runway
US Federal Trade Commission, 22 US states sue Amazon over allegedly illegal advertising practices
Brazil's forest fires up 79% in 2024; Government blames "climate terrorism"
The vast Amazon rainforest bore the brunt of the devastation, accounting for approximately 17.9 million hectares of the total burned area, which is 58% of the overall destruction.
Study identifies Amazon and Sahara regions as birthplace of earliest dinosaurs
Remains of earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered due to inaccessibility and lack of research efforts.
Google employees directly assist IDF, Defense Min., Washington Post reveals
Employees at Google have worked to provide Israel's military with access to its most advanced artificial intelligence.
Video of an 8-meter, 200-kilogram green anaconda in the Amazon will leave you breathless
‘We have discovered that green anacondas are actually two species,’ said the head researcher.
Checkout optimization start-up raises $25m Series A to help e-commerce brands compete with Amazon
The company plans to use the new capital to expand its global market presence and accelerate the development of its checkout and shipping personalization engine.
Is this the greatest archaeological finding of 2024?
In January 2023, archaeologists discovered lost Amazon cities, home to 10,000 farmers 2,000 years ago, revealing a pre-Columbian civilization in a previously sparsely inhabited area.
Archaeologists and indigenous elders decipher shamanic messages in 11,000-year-old amazon rock art
Over the past six years, researchers investigated Indigenous rock art in the Serranía de la Lindosa, a 12-mile-long sandstone outcrop in Colombia's Guaviare department.
Three-meter bows unveiled: First images of uncontacted Massaco tribe in the Amazon
Population of the isolated community has doubled since the 1990s, now estimated at over 200 people.
Amazon announces Nova – its generative AI model
Unveiled at AWS Las Vegas, Nova offers groundbreaking capabilities in text, images, and video, with four distinct performance tiers.
Amazon Nova debuts: New generative AI models for images, videos and text
The technology can be used in 200 languages, including Hebrew, which Amazon said would prevent users from “worrying about language barriers or maintaining separate models for different regions.”
