Today's spotlights:
Amazon may start selling its AI chips to take on Nvidia.
Decisions that built the world's biggest Tech Companies
OpenAI poaches Google's Noam Shazeer, co-lead of Gemini
Amazing everyday gadgets to ease your life
Android 17 is here and it's Google's biggest AI Flex yet.
Samsung's AI can now spot your pet's health issues from a photo
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Tech Stories This Week
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AWS is reportedly in talks to sell its Trainium AI chips to outside companies for use in their own data centers, AI chief Peter DeSantis told Bloomberg, without naming potential buyers.
AWS has long kept its chips in-house, partly because the real money isn't just the chip, it's the bundle of storage, networking, security and monitoring services that come with running AI workloads on AWS.
Selling raw chips means giving up that bundled revenue.
There's also a supply problem: Amazon has said Trainium capacity keeps selling out almost instantly, with even the unreleased Trainium4 already booked out more than a year ahead.
My Take: Offering chips to outsiders could mean making existing AWS customers wait longer, unless Amazon can secure extra manufacturing capacity from partners like TSMC, where Nvidia has just become the largest customer, edging out Apple.
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Google was for sale for $1 MILLION in 1999.
The buyer said no.
That "no" became one of the most expensive mistakes in business history.
Zuckerberg turned down $1 BILLION from Yahoo.
He was 22.
Investors begged him to take it.
He bet everything on a hunch instead.
3. Jobs got fired from Apple.
Came back years later and killed HALF the product line.
Everyone said he was destroying the company.
He was saving it.
4. Amazon lost money for YEARS — on purpose.
Bezos wasn't building a bookstore.
He was building infrastructure disguised as one.
5. Nadella inherited a "dead" Microsoft.
Instead of defending it, he burned the old playbook down.
Built it back on cloud + AI.
Trillion-dollar comeback.
My Take: The biggest wins always look like the dumbest risks, right before they don't.💡
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Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering at Google and co-lead of Gemini, is jumping ship to join Sam Altman's company.
Shazeer announced it himself on X, calling it a hard decision and thanking the Google team he built alongside.
The timing is notable: Google reportedly paid around $2.7 billion to bring Shazeer back less than two years ago, after acquiring his startup Character.AI (and the research team he brought with him). Now he's out the door again.
OpenAI has been steadily picking off DeepMind talent, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov.and Xiaohua Zhai (computer vision and multimodal specialists) left in late 2024, and ex-Google exec Albert Lee joined in December 2025.
The logic is simple: The pool of people who can actually build frontier AI systems is tiny, which makes talent, not just chips or capital, one of the scarcest resources in the industry.
Gadgets update
1. ANWOON Sound Machine & Aroma Diffuser Pro
4-in-1 sleep system: white noise, 50+ natural sounds, Schumann resonance, aroma diffuser, and night light in one device
Premium metal shell design, built for adults, kids and babies
Positioned for sleep, focus and relaxation use cases.
2. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra
Expected to debut at Galaxy Unpacked, July 22, 2026, in London
Rumored to pack a 6.5-inch cover display and 8-inch foldable inner display, both LTPO OLED with up to 2,600 nits peak brightness
Tipped to run on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset with 12–16GB RAM and up to 1TB storage
3. PettiChat AI Pet Translator
27-gram wearable collar clip-on with built-in microphones and motion sensors for dogs and cats
Trained on over one million voice samples to build a translation "persona" for each pet, claiming 94.6% accuracy with response times under one second
Two-way design: translates pet sounds into human language and converts human speech into pet-recognizable cues
Privacy-focused: stays offline until the pet makes a sound, with no continuous recording or built-in camera
4. EBO Max FamilyBot
Football-shaped home robot from Enabot designed to roam living spaces and interact with family and pets
Features embodied AI with facial recognition and long-term memory, learning the home's layout and family members over time. Includes 4K camera, two-way video calling, auto-recharge, and smart patrol functions
Marketed for pet monitoring, elder care and long-distance family connection
5. Mobvoi TicNote Pods
Branded as the world's first AI note-taking earbuds with built-in 4G connectivity
Uses "Shadow AI" to capture and transcribe speech from both online and offline conversations.