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A problem at Amazon's cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world. The outage on Monday took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms. About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover from the problem, although problems lingered for some users. AWS provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to some of the world's biggest organizations. Its customers include government departments, universities and businesses. Amazon pinned the outage on issues related to its domain name system.
AMD is announcing a deal to supply its chips to OpenAI for building AI infrastructure. The agreement includes providing high-performance graphics chips for a total of 6 gigawatts of computing power for OpenAI's next-generation AI systems. The first gigawatt is expected to come online in the second half of next year. AMD has also issued OpenAI a warrant to buy up to 160 million shares of its stock, about 10% of the company. This deal is a boost for AMD, which has been trailing behind Nvidia, a favorite among AI companies for its graphics processing chips.