Almost as soon as OpenAI announced that its major investor and cloud partner, Microsoft, no longer has exclusive rights to any of its products, Amazon started gloating.

After the revised OpenAI/Microsoft agreement was announced on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy noted in a tweet that it was a “very interesting announcement.” That agreement solved OpenAI’s problem of allowing AWS to offer its products, an issue that crystalized after it signed an up-to-$50-billion deal with Amazon.

Amazon announced on Tuesday that AWS’s Bedrock service now has OpenAI’s latest models, its code-writing service Codex, and a new product for creating OpenAI-powered AI agents. Bedrock is Amazon’s AI app building and model-choosing service.

Amazon is calling the new agent service Bedrock Managed Agents. It is specifically designed to use OpenAI’s reasoning models, offering features like agent steering and security.

Amazon promises in its blog post that “this is the beginning of a deeper collaboration between AWS and OpenAI.” And it will certainly be interesting to watch.

The Microsoft/OpenAI relationship has reportedly been deteriorating for some time, with each of them finding comfort in the arms of their partner’s biggest rival. OpenAI has turned to AWS and Oracle. Microsoft to Anthropic; the Redmond-based software giant is also working on a new agent offering powered by Claude.

A former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has condemned the ongoing killings across the country, describing the situation as a damning indictment of President Bola Tinubu’s failure to protect Nigerians. 

“What we have witnessed across our country in just the past 48 hours is not only tragic, it is utterly unacceptable and a damning indictment of our collective failure of leadership,” said Mr Obi in a statement on Tuesday.

The politician’s statement came hours after terrorists killed 19 residents in Gombi LGA of Adamawa State. Terrorists also killed and kidnapped several people in Katsina, Kaduna, Kogi, Plateau and other states.

Mr Obi, who decried the killings, accused Mr Tinubu of neglecting his constitutional responsibility of protecting lives and property.

“Nigeria is bleeding. We are fast becoming a nation where human life is treated as expendable, where citizens live in fear, and where the basic duty of government, to protect lives and property, is repeatedly neglected,” he stated.

The politician also condemned what he described as the normalisation of tragedy under and urged the government to take urgent action to safeguard Nigerians. 

“This cannot continue. A nation cannot develop under the weight of such persistent insecurity and human tragedy. The normalisation of these horrors is itself a crisis. 

“We must ask, with all sense of urgency and responsibility: where is the leadership? Where is the coordination, the competence, and the compassion required to confront this menace decisively?” Mr Obi said.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International, in a statement on Tuesday, said the persistent violence in the country underscored the need for stronger measures to protect civilians, adding that authorities must ensure justice and reparations for victims and their families.