May 2026

eBay’s board of directors today rejected GameStop’s $55.5 billion offer to buy the company. “We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive,” eBay Chairman Paul Pressler wrote in a letter to GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen. Pressler said the board and its independent advisors thoroughly reviewed GameStop’s unsolicited bid and found numerous problems. “We have taken into account such factors as 1) eBay’s standalone prospects, 2) the uncertainty regarding your financing proposal, 3) the impact of […]

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Google took its first swing at laptops with Chromebooks way back in 2011. These web-first laptops have seen success over the years, mostly in enterprise and education. Google insists Chromebooks aren’t going away, but the company’s focus has shifted to something new: Googlebooks. That’s what Google has decided to call the new line of Android-powered laptops, which will begin shipping later this year. If you thought other Google products were steeped in Gemini, you haven’t seen anything yet. […]

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Amazon’s Finance Technology (FinTech) teams build and operate systems for Amazon teams to manage regulatory inquiries in compliance with different jurisdictions. These teams process regulatory inquiries from authorities, each presenting different requirements, document formats, and complexity levels. Processing these regulatory inquiries involves reviewing documentation, extracting relevant information, retrieving supporting data from multiple systems within Amazon’s infrastructure, and compiling responses within regulatory timeframes. As inquiry frequency and business complexity grew, Amazon needed a more scalable approach. In this post, […]

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Before you can extract information from documents using intelligent document processing (IDP) techniques, you need a schema for each document class that defines what to extract. But how do you create schemas when you have thousands of documents and don’t know what classes exist? Doing this at scale can take substantial manual effort, making downstream IDP initiatives difficult to justify. In this post, we’ll show you how our multi-document discovery feature solves this problem. It serves as an […]

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The EU AI Act requires organizations fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) to track computational resources measured in floating-point operations (FLOPs) to determine compliance obligations. As customers increasingly fine-tune LLMs for domain-specific use cases, we hear a common question: how do I know if my training job triggers new regulatory obligations? Amazon SageMaker AI provides a managed machine learning (ML) service for building, training, and deploying models. This solution uses Amazon SageMaker Training jobs to run fine-tuning workloads on […]

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MIT’s Universal Learning is a new initiative from MIT Open Learning designed to prepare learners everywhere to tackle complex global challenges through boundary-crossing thinking.  Universal Learning offerings combine subject matter expertise from MIT faculty and experts and Open Learning’s more than 25 years of innovation in online education to deliver a learning experience centered on real-world stories, practical exercises, and the needs of global learners. It is delivered on the MIT Learn platform, leveraging the capabilities of the AskTIM […]

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