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Amazon's cloud division is growing faster than even its own chief executive expected. AWS posted its strongest growth rate in fifteen quarters, up twenty-eight percent, and Andy Jassy has openly admitted the pace surprised him. That growth is now the financial backbone holding up Amazon's total revenue, with AI services positioned as the next major driver.
Meanwhile, not everyone is excited about the AI push coming from Redmond. A new survey from the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing finds that American workers are broadly skeptical of Microsoft's AI tools, with lock-in concerns front and center. Workers worry their employers are being quietly funneled into Microsoft's ecosystem through productivity software they already depend on daily.
On the hardware side, RAM prices are squeezing gaming laptop budgets, but deals are still out there for patient shoppers. Lenovo and Asus both have budget options worth considering despite the shortage, and over at Newegg, a bundled Intel Core Ultra build with thirty-two gigabytes of DDR five memory is coming in just under seven hundred sixty-eight dollars, saving buyers nearly two hundred forty dollars off individual pricing.
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