Amazon Web Services
The largest cloud provider and a builder of its own AI chips.
Role in each timeline
- Who Cut Jobs When: A Register of Major U.S. Layoffs, 2025 to 2026
Cut 14,000 corporate roles in October 2025 and 16,000 more in January 2026, totaling about 30,000.
- OpenAI Frontier Models: From GPT-4 to GPT-6 Astra
Distributes GPT-6 Astra alongside the OpenAI API.
- Nvidia Data Center GPUs: Hopper, Blackwell and Vera Rubin
Cloud provider Nvidia named among the first expected deployers of Vera Rubin-based instances.
- Intel Foundry and 18A: From IDM 2.0 to a Government-Owned Stake
Expanded its Intel collaboration to include an AI fabric chip on Intel 18A.
Entries that mention Amazon Web Services
- GPT-6 Astra launches to a limited set of organizations, with broad access to follow within days Launchon OpenAI Frontier Models: From GPT-4 to GPT-6 Astra
- NVIDIA unveils the six-chip Rubin platform Financialon Nvidia Data Center GPUs: Hopper, Blackwell and Vera Rubin
- Amazon: 16,000 more corporate roles, taking the total to 30,000 since October Announcementon Who Cut Jobs When: A Register of Major U.S. Layoffs, 2025 to 2026
- Amazon: 14,000 corporate roles, the first phase of its largest-ever cut Announcementon Who Cut Jobs When: A Register of Major U.S. Layoffs, 2025 to 2026
- UPS: 20,000 jobs and 73 buildings as it sheds Amazon volume Announcementon Who Cut Jobs When: A Register of Major U.S. Layoffs, 2025 to 2026
- Intel Foundry to become an independent subsidiary; AWS signs on for 18A; Germany and Poland paused two years Announcementon Intel Foundry and 18A: From IDM 2.0 to a Government-Owned Stake