Amazon courts laid-off workers back for AI and cloud roles

Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and the Siegel Family are backing arXiv with $17.2 million over three to five years as it spins out as an independent nonprofit.

Databricks released a CLI to deploy and manage coding agents at scale. The post cites GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.8, and Grok 4.7 as models shipped in the last six months.

ElevenLabs is reportedly valued at $22 billion by its backers four years after founding, and says it is pacing at $600 million in annual recurring revenue. CEO Mati Staniszewski said businesses should tell customers when they're talking to an AI, and that he'd accept further gross-margin pressure to expand market share.

AWS published a technical how-to for running WhisperX on SageMaker AI to add speaker diarization and word-level timestamps to speech-to-text. It targets contact-center calls, meetings, podcasts, depositions, and broadcast media, where standard transcription returns only utterance-level timestamps.

AWS technical guide builds an agent that reasons over data spread across multiple AWS accounts without copying or centralizing it, keeping each team's data in its own account for ownership and scope isolation.