The one thing
EU now has an official checklist for companies selling high-risk AI to follow
Why it mattersCompanies selling in the EU now have a defined standard to follow for the article 17 quality management requirements.
Seventy: Tuesday, 20 October 2026
- 02Chips
Amazon's AI chips can now run your team's existing code unchanged
Why it mattersTeams with PyTorch code can test Amazon's chips without a rewrite, so switching away from other chip suppliers costs far less engineering time.
- 03Models
Claude on Amazon's cloud now gives answers in a fixed format, cutting cleanup work
Why it mattersTeams building on Claude through AWS can delete their custom cleanup and retry code, so automated workflows break less and cost less to maintain.
- 04Models
TwelveLabs' AI that logs key moments in long videos is now on Amazon's cloud
Why it mattersTeams sitting on hours of unsearchable video can now pull timestamped, structured data from it on AWS, replacing manual review.
- 05Models
OpenAI is training ChatGPT to handle old and rarely used coding languages
Why it mattersIf your systems run on or other niche languages, OpenAI is now testing ChatGPT on migrating that code.
Amazon is paying for a nuclear power plant in Indiana
Why it mattersAmazon is locking in its own long-term power supply, so AI and cloud capacity will be shaped by who secures energy first.
- 07Funding
Salesforce is putting $1 billion into Spain to help local businesses adopt AI
Why it mattersSpanish and southern European companies buying Salesforce get a local AI implementation team in Madrid, so rollout help sits closer to them.
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Words of the day
- Trainium
- Amazon's custom-designed chips built for training and running machine learning models on AWS as an alternative to Nvidia GPUs.
- COBOL
- An old programming language still widely used in banking, insurance and government mainframe systems.
- High-risk AI system
- The EU AI Act's category for AI used in areas like hiring, credit, education and policing, which brings the heaviest obligations.
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