arXiv gets $17.2M to launch as independent nonprofit

Recruiter emails show Amazon's AI agent organization, led by AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian, invited former AI/ML employees to return via "Swami's Boomerang Reengagement Initiative." Amazon has cut more than 30,000 jobs over the past year; a spokesperson called boomerang hiring a longstanding practice, not an AI-specific program.

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.