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Amazon Web Services has released an open-source kit that strings together the steps of building a robot's AI, from a robot's recorded work to testing its AI in a computer simulation and loading the finished AI onto the robot. The code is free, but it runs on Amazon's paid cloud and NVIDIA's robot software. Amazon has not said what a typical project costs to run.

Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years on free community college, job training, energy upgrades and local projects in U.S. towns that host its data centers, and that it no longer signs nondisclosure agreements with the government agencies it works with on those projects. The pledge comes amid a growing backlash against the data centers being built for AI. Amazon has not given a full breakdown of the money, and the change on nondisclosure agreements applies only to new ones.

Amazon-owned Zoox began offering robotaxi rides to and from Las Vegas's Harry Reid International Airport on Sept. 3, 2026, with pickups at both passenger terminals. The rides build on a July exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that lets Zoox charge fares in up to 2,500 of its driverless vehicles a year for two years. Tesla, Uber and Waymo have also won permits to run robotaxi services in the Las Vegas area, according to a news report.