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Amazon cut AGI research roles even as it pours roughly $200B into AWS infrastructure, with satellite imagery confirming Iranian strikes damaged two of its Bahrain datacenters.

Amazon cut jobs on its AGI research team even as it pours roughly $200B into AI infrastructure this year.
Satellite imagery confirmed Iranian strikes damaged two AWS datacenter sites in Bahrain.
Moody's warned that "unprecedented" AI spending is threatening the credit quality of Amazon, Meta and Alphabet alike.
Amazon reports Q2 earnings on July 30, the first real test of its 2026 AWS capex plan against the AGI-team cuts.

Whether the July 30 earnings call reconciles Amazon's AGI-team cuts with its full-year AWS capex commitment.

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