Amazon offers $29 skill builder courses; YC shrinks summer cohort; MIT advances 'analogue deep learning'

Y Combinator has cut the number of startups within its accelerator for the Summer 2022 batch by 40 percent, citing the global economic slowdown. The cohort, currently on, has nearly 250 companies, while there were 414 companies in the previous batch. AWS has launched new subscriptions to its cloud tech learning at attractive rates. And MIT researchers have built an artificial synapse that's faster than those in the human brain