AWS shows speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI

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.

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 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.