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TechCrunch Amazon begins delivering select products via drone in Phoenix A few months after ending its drone-based delivery program, Prime Air, in California, Amazon says that it's begun making deliveries to select customers via drone in Phoenix, Arizona. Starting today, Amazon customers in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area have access to a drone-deliverable selection from Amazon's catalog, including household, beauty, office, health, and tech supplies. Products must weigh 5 pounds or less to be eligible; Amazon says about 50,000 are available at launch.

Datadog challenger Dash0 aims to dash observability bill shock Observability - collecting and understanding data and systems - typically remains an organization's second-highest cloud expenditure, right after cloud provisioning itself. People have even gone so far as to talk of an observability cost crisis, underscored by anecdotes like Coinbase spending $65 million on its Datadog bill. Complex cloud architectures and microservices are here to stay, and with security issues and service outages all too common, ops teams need observability data to keep systems running.

Bluesky gears up for Election Day as X goes pro-Trump As Election Day in the U.S. nears, social networking startup Bluesky, now flush with new capital, hopes to demonstrate that its platform can serve as a more trusted, fact-checked alternative to Elon Musk's X. While the latter is dominated by Musk's support for the Trump campaign, Bluesky tends to lean left, thanks to its influx of disgruntled former Twitter users who don't like the platform's new direction. Now, with the U.S. elections upon us, Bluesky is setting up for its biggest test yet: its ability to handle the potential misinformation that can mislead users during these critical national events, including any posts meant to disrupt the voting process or those using new technologies, like AI, to confuse the voting public. While X's other competitor, Meta's Threads app, has distanced itself from politics — even going so far as to no longer recommend users political content — Bluesky has capitalized on the demand for a real-time social network that prioritizes such discussions.

Meta says it's making its Llama models available for US national security applications To combat the perception that its "open" AI is aiding foreign adversaries, Meta today said that it's making its Llama series of AI models available to U.S. government agencies and contractors in national security. "We are pleased to confirm that we're making Llama available to U.S. government agencies, including those that are working on defense and national security applications, and private sector partners supporting their work," Meta wrote in a blog post. "We're partnering with companies including Accenture, Amazon Web Services, Anduril, Booz Allen, Databricks, Deloitte, IBM, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, Scale AI, and Snowflake to bring Llama to government agencies."