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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is a multinational technology company focusing in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence in Seattle, Washington.
Amazon Considers AI Content Marketplace for Publishers
February 10, 2026
Amazon is in discussions with publishing executives about launching a marketplace that would allow publishers to sell their content directly to companies building artificial intelligence products, according to The Information. The ...Read moreAmazon’s UK Move Puts Pay by Bank Into Sharper Focus
February 10, 2026
Pay by bank’s practical test has been whether it can scale beyond utilities, gaming and bill pay into everyday commerce. With Amazon’s Tuesday (Feb. 10) introduction of its Pay by Bank ...Read moreAmazon Leverages New Tax Laws to Fuel AI Buildout
February 6, 2026
New tax laws around research and capital investment reduced Amazon’s U.S. corporate income taxes by more than half in 2025, even as the company’s profits rose, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Feb. ...Read moreFundamental Raises $255 Million for AI Large Tabular Model
February 5, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Fundamental has teamed with Amazon and raised $255 million. The company, which has developed a “large tabular model” (LTM) to glean predictions from enterprise data, said Thursday (Feb. ...Read moreWalmart Hits $1 Trillion as Amazon Bets on Alexa+ as Super Agent
February 5, 2026
Corporate rivalries are traditionally cast in simple, static terms. Take, for example, the competition between Amazon and Walmart, which has long been described as a clash of two competing models: each giant standing on ...Read moreAmazon Starts Nationwide Rollout of Alexa+ One Year After Soft Launch
February 4, 2026
Amazon is broadening the role of artificial intelligence (AI) across its business, rolling out a new generation of Alexa, exploring deeper access to OpenAI’s models and applying AI tools inside ...Read moreBig Tech Faces the AI Innovator’s Dilemma.
February 4, 2026
Smith Corona was once the king of written communications. For most of the twentieth century, the sound of work and study in America was the clickety‑clack of typewriter keys in offices, ...Read moreAmazon Delivered 30% More Items Same or Next Day in 2025
February 3, 2026
Amazon increased the number of items it delivered to Prime members in the United States the same or next day by 30% in 2025. The company delivered over 8 billion items ...Read moreAI Layoff News Sparks ‘AI Washing’ Worries
February 1, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly large role in corporate layoff announcements. But according to a report Saturday (Jan. 31) from The New York Times, some skeptics argue that companies ...Read moreSaks Global Winds Down eCommerce Deal With Amazon
February 1, 2026
Bankrupt department store company Saks Global is ending its eCommerce partnership with Amazon. That’s according to a Friday (Jan. 30) report from Reuters, which noted that the arrangement between the two ...Read more
Amazon Considers Future of Delivery Network, US Postal Service Partnership
December 4, 2025Amazon is reportedly evaluating its delivery network after talks with the U.S. Postal Service stalled. If Amazon expands its network, the move would make Amazon the country’s most ubiquitous delivery service and present ...Read moreAmazon Testing Half-Hour Delivery in Two Cities
December 2, 2025
Amazon is testing ultra-fast delivery of groceries and essential items in two U.S. cities. The program, offering deliveries within around 30 minutes or less, is being piloted in parts of Philadelphia ...Read moreAmazon Equips Drivers With Smart Glasses as It Deepens AI Fulfillment Investments
October 22, 2025
Amazon said on October 22 in a press release that it is equipping its delivery drivers with AI-powered smart glasses to accelerate last-mile logistics, part of a broader operational overhaul ...Read moreAmazon: New Delivery Drone Has ‘Double the Range and Half the Noise’
December 11, 2024
Amazon launched a new delivery drone that has “double the range and half the noise” of any of its predecessors. The new MK30 drone received Federal Aviation Administration approval to begin ...Read moreAmazon Tests 15-Minute-or-Less Grocery Delivery in India
December 10, 2024
Amazon is reportedly testing 15-minute-or-less grocery deliveries as it takes on Walmart in India. The eCommerce giant is joining a wave of “quick commerce” companies promising super-fast deliveries of products such ...Read moreAmazon Adds Earned Wage Access Offering for Delivery Service Partners
September 12, 2024
Amazon invested another $2.1 billion in its Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program designed to help small business entrepreneurs build delivery companies. This addition brings the amount the company has invested in ...Read moreNLRB Rules Amazon Is ‘Joint Employer’ of Subcontracted Delivery Drivers
August 22, 2024
Amazon is reportedly under scrutiny as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) concluded that a group of subcontracted delivery drivers in Southern California were employees of Amazon itself. The labor board ...Read moreAmazon Pharmacy Expands Same-Day Delivery to New York, Los Angeles
March 26, 2024
Amazon Pharmacy expanded its same-day delivery of prescription medication to New York City and the greater Los Angeles area. These cities join five others in which this service is already available: Austin, ...Read moreAmazon Opens Grocery Delivery Program to Non-Prime Customers
November 9, 2023
Amazon is expanding its grocery delivery/pickup program to include shoppers who aren’t Prime subscribers. The retail giant is making grocery delivery and free pickup available to all customers in any U.S. ...Read moreAmazon Pays Customers For Pickup to Cut Delivery Costs
May 9, 2023
Amazon is offering customers a deal to lower delivery costs: Pick up your items, get $10. As Reuters reported Monday (May 8), the eCommerce giant has recently begun emailing Prime subscribers ...Read more
Amazon Reportedly Developing In-House Answer to ChatGPT
June 25, 2024
Amazon is reportedly developing its own artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The project is code-named “Metis,” Business Insider reported Monday (June 24), noting that the name seems inspired ...Read moreAmazon Beta Launches Generative AI Shopping Assistant Rufus
February 1, 2024
Amazon has beta launched a new generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping assistant. Dubbed “Rufus,” the assistant is now available to a small subset of customers using the Amazon mobile app and will ...Read moreAmazon Unveils Alexa Features to Help Seniors, Caregivers
May 11, 2022
Amazon has unveiled two features for the Alexa Together function on its Alexa devices designed to help older people and their caregivers. In an announcement posted on its website Wednesday (May ...Read moreCashierless Tech, Starbucks Deal Put Amazon in QSR Business
November 18, 2021
The rumors are true: Amazon is making moves into the quick-service restaurant (QSR) space, partnering with Starbucks to bring its “Just Walk Out” frictionless checkout technology into the latter’s stores. ...Read moreLondon Opens First Market Outside of US To Use Amazon’s Cashierless Tech
November 16, 2021
London is opening the first market outside of the U.S. to use Amazon’s white-labeled Just Walk Out technology, Bloomberg reported Monday (Nov. 15), citing sources who said that Amazon Sainsbury’s ...Read moreAmazon One Palm Scanning Tech Moves Into Entertainment With AXS Collab
September 14, 2021
Amazon is taking its palm scanning technology, Amazon One, out of the retail aisles and into entertainment venues through a partnership with ticketing solutions firm AXS. The collaboration brings the “first-ever ...Read moreAmazon to Pilot ‘Just Walk Out’ Tech at Whole Foods Locations
September 8, 2021
Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology will be trialed at Whole Foods locations in Washington, D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood and Sherman Oaks, California, giving shoppers the option of skipping the checkout ...Read moreAmazon Mulls Alexa Wearables For Children
July 14, 2021
Amazon is looking into developing Alexa-powered wearable GPS-equipped devices for children aged 4-12, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday (July 14). The new wearable, which is code-named Seeker, could be a wristband, keychain or ...Read moreVodafone, Amazon To Bring Speedy 5G ‘Edge Computing’ Services To UK Businesses
June 16, 2021
Vodafone and Amazon Web Services are partnering to bring so-called “edge computing” to business customers in the U.K. Edge computing quickly analyzes bulk data — collected from, say, the factory ...Read moreAmazon, Tile Team Up To Compete With Apple AirTags
May 7, 2021
Amazon has announced new partnerships in hopes of enhancing its connected devices to compete with products such as Apple AirTags. The company said Friday it had formed partnerships with Tile, which ...Read more
Amazon Starts Nationwide Rollout of Alexa+ One Year After Soft Launch
February 4, 2026Amazon is broadening the role of artificial intelligence (AI) across its business, rolling out a new generation of Alexa, exploring deeper access to OpenAI’s models and applying AI tools inside ...Read moreBig Tech Pivots to AI Infrastructure, Commercial Deployment and Drug Discovery
January 14, 2026
Big Tech companies moved this week to solidify their control over the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, launching initiatives that range from massive data-center expansions to specialized tools for retail and ...Read moreAmazon Comes After Siri With Alexa+ Web and Mobile Browser
January 5, 2026Amazon advanced Alexa beyond its device roots Monday (Jan. 5) with a browser-based expansion of Alexa+ and made product announcements at CES 2026 focused on Fire TV and the Bee ...Read moreAmazon Pushes Alexa Into Full Agent Mode
December 8, 2025
Agentic AI’s intersection with devices like phones, speakers and personal assistants hadn’t been visited much in the Prompt Economy. At least that was the case, up until last week when ...Read moreAmazon Says Customers Saved ‘Billions’ During Extended Prime Day
July 13, 2025
Amazon says its longest Prime Day sale was also its biggest. The eCommerce giant announced Saturday (July 12) that its yearly summer sale produced record sales and savings in its newly ...Read moreAmazon Cuts 100 Jobs in Devices Unit Amid Ongoing Efficiency Drive
May 14, 2025
Amazon reportedly cut about 100 jobs in its devices and services unit, saying it did so as part of a regular business review. The layoffs amount to a small portion of ...Read moreAmazon’s Alexa+ Voice Assistant Draws 100,000 Users as Rollout Continues
May 2, 2025
Amazon has rolled out Alexa+, the new version of its voice assistant, to more than 100,000 users so far, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday (May 1) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Alexa+ will ...Read moreCustomer First, Agentic AI Next. Amazon Lays Out Its 2025 Roadmap
May 1, 2025
Most earnings announcements and ensuing analyst calls are spent discussing all the money — or lack of it — the host company made during the previous quarter. Not so at ...Read moreApple’s Siri: Once a Pioneer, Now an AI Laggard
March 20, 2025
When Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Siri, debuted in 2011, it was revolutionary for giving users the ability to “talk” to their smartphone. Siri’s capabilities were made possible by machine ...Read moreAnthropic CPO: Startup Isn’t Interested in Hardware or Consumer Entertainment
March 10, 2025
Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI and backed by Amazon and Google, is not planning to get into hardware or consumer entertainment but will remain focused on developing generalist foundation ...Read more