Big Tech makes California state its AI training ground

On the first day of AI Camp, a new summer program at California State University, Savannah Bosley got a hands-on introduction to Amazon Bedrock, a system for building artificial intelligence apps.

“I figured it wouldn’t hurt to put it on the résumé, to learn a new tool that’s maybe marketable,” said Bosley, a computer science major who graduated this year from California Polytechnic State University, a Cal State campus in San Luis Obispo.

Dozens of students attended the five-day program, which was held on the Cal Poly campus and “powered by” Amazon…