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The Winners Of The AI Boom You Never Thought About

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Big AWS outage took down half the internet overnight. X wants you to be able to snap up dormant or desirable X handles. Blackwell chips look like they’ve hit volume production in the US. And you know who else is benefiting from the AI boom? Crypto miners and makers of plain old cables. Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more (The Verge) OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. (TechCrunch) X to launch marketplace for buying inactive handles (TechCrunch) Oura redesigns app with expanded stress tracking (The Verge) Exclusive: Nvidia and TSMC unveil first Blackwell chip wafer made in U.S. (Axios) $500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom (CNBC) Crypto Miners Riding the AI Wave Are Leaving Bitcoin Behind (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

300 sensors.

0:03.0

Over a million data points per second.

0:06.0

How does F1 update their fans with every stat in real time?

0:10.0

AWS is how.

0:13.0

From fastest laps to strategy calls,

0:15.0

AWS puts fans in the pit.

0:19.0

It's not just racing, it's data-driven innovation at 200 miles per hour.

0:25.4

AWS is how leading businesses power next-level innovation.

0:34.1

Welcome to the tech brew right home for Monday, October 20th, 2025.

0:39.3

I'm Brian McCullough today. Big AWS outage took down half the internet overnight. X wants you to be able to snap up dormant

0:45.3

or desirable X handles. Blackwell chips look like they've finally hit volume production in the U.S.

0:51.5

And you know who else is benefiting from the AI boom? Crypto miners and makers of plain old cables. Here's what you missed today in the U.S. And you know who else is benefiting from the AI boom? Cryptominers and

0:55.1

makers of plain old cables. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

1:03.3

As I am typing this, there are still a few residual problems I've been noticing around the

1:08.5

web all morning, but overnight there was a big

1:12.4

AWS outage that took down a bunch of things, including Amazon, Fortnite, chat GPT, and

1:18.2

Snapchat.

1:19.4

AWS says the underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated, and most operations are succeeding

1:24.4

normally now after a major U.S. East 1 outage beginning at 3.11 a.m.

1:29.6

Eastern Time. Quoting the verge. As of 6.35 a.m. Eastern time, the AWS status checker is reporting

1:36.5

that most AWS service operations are succeeding normally now, and some of the impacted platforms,

1:41.5

including Fortnite, Epic Games Store, and Perplexity have announced

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