Amazon (AMZN) News

Oct 29, 2026, 6:08 PM

Andy Jassy’s prediction: Amazon could have two $1 trillion businesses within a decade

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS and the company’s stores business could each reach $1 trillion in annual revenue in the next five to 10 years, something no business has ever done. AWS is at a $184 billion annual run rate, and Jassy expects it to grow more than 40% in both 2027 and 2028. Read More

Oct 29, 2026, 1:37 PM

AWS growth hits 39%, its fastest in nearly five years, as Amazon misses on earnings

Amazon Web Services revenue grew 39% to $46 billion in the third quarter, its fastest pace in nearly five years, and CEO Andy Jassy said he expects AWS to top 40% growth in 2027 and 2028. Amazon’s earnings of $1.89 per share missed analyst estimates, and its stock fell more than 7% in after-hours trading. Read More

Oct 28, 2026, 8:11 AM

Amazon earnings preview: AWS is booked up, and Wall Street wants to know what comes next

Amazon reports third-quarter earnings Thursday with more demand for its AWS cloud services than it can supply, after CEO Andy Jassy said capacity is booked for this year and most of next. Analysts expect revenue of about $202 billion, up 12%, as investors look for signals about the company’s spending plans for 2027. Read More

Two men stand on a stage in front of large screens showing the Amazon and Anthropic logos, with an audience in the foreground.

Oct 27, 2026, 6:53 AM

Who’s getting Anthropic’s compute spending? IPO filing shows where the tech giants really stand

Anthropic’s IPO filing details more than $750 billion in computing deals, with more going to Google’s chips and Elon Musk’s SpaceX than to Amazon or Microsoft. Amazon’s biggest payoff is its stake, which it valued at $190.4 billion in June. Read More

Oct 23, 2026, 7:57 PM

Amazon ends its six-year legal fight with former AWS managers over alleged data center kickbacks

Two former Amazon real estate managers have resolved their six-year legal fight with the company, acknowledging they received personal payments tied to data center deals they handled and apologizing for violating its ethical standards. Amazon’s case against the developer accused of paying the kickbacks continues. Read More

Oct 20, 2026, 8:06 AM

Amazon plans record 300k holiday hires as the rest of retail pulls back

Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 people for the holidays, up 20% from last year, and will give seasonal employees who work at least 30 hours a week healthcare from their first day starting Jan. 1. Read More

Diagram showing layers labeled PyTorch, TorchNeuron, AWS Neuron and AWS Trainium stacked above a chip

Oct 19, 2026, 6:25 AM

Amazon challenges Nvidia’s software advantage with new tool for its own AI chips

Amazon’s TorchNeuron software runs code written in PyTorch, the open-source framework used by many AI developers, on its Trainium chips after a basic configuration change. Amazon is opening it to all developers as a public beta and releasing it as open source. Read More

Three Bee Frontier wristbands in lavender, green and black

Oct 16, 2026, 4:02 PM

Amazon’s new Bee AI devices have a bystander problem, says former AWS security engineer

Jeff Williams, now chief information security officer at Sigma360, says the consent prompt and indicator light on Amazon’s Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse reach the wearer, not the people being recorded. Amazon pointed to safeguards including automatic shutoff and reminders for users to ask permission. Read More

Oct 15, 2026, 4:27 PM

Amazon’s NBA coverage adds Prime 360 — AI replays that ‘fly the camera through’ the action

Amazon is using AI and AWS chips to rebuild NBA plays in 3D for its second season of “NBA on Prime,” which debuts next week and also adds Yahoo fantasy stats and its first exclusive Eastern Conference Finals coverage. Read More

Oct 15, 2026, 2:19 PM

Leaked list shows what Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants are giving for the White House ballroom

Microsoft committed $10 million to President Trump’s White House ballroom project, and Amazon and T-Mobile each committed $5 million, according to a donor list obtained by the Washington Post. The donations aren’t subject to campaign finance limits or disclosure requirements, raising concerns that companies could be buying influence or feeling pressured to give. Read More

Oct 15, 2026, 5:39 AM

Amazon’s new AI devices can listen to conversations and suggest things to buy — if you opt in

Bee, the AI wearables startup Amazon acquired last year, will turn products people mention in everyday conversations into shopping suggestions on Amazon.com for users who opt in and subscribe to Bee Pro. Amazon also unveiled two new Bee devices and a connection to its Alexa+ assistant. Read More

Oct 13, 2026, 10:47 AM

Apple challenges Amazon’s Echo and Ring with its new smart home lineup

Apple’s $299 HomeView smart display goes up against the Echo Show, and new LG-made cameras, a video doorbell and a smart lock compete with Amazon-owned Ring. Apple has 7% of U.S. smart speaker owners, compared with about two-thirds for Amazon. Read More

Oct 12, 2026, 10:46 AM

Why Amazon might pay billions for Decart, a 3-year-old AI startup that hasn’t disclosed its revenue

Amazon is in talks to buy Decart for around $7 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. The startup makes software that helps AI models run faster on different kinds of chips, including Amazon’s Trainium, and has already worked with AWS on its newest chip. Read More

Oct 12, 2026, 8:50 AM

‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’: Nicolas Cage likely done with Amazon after ‘Spider-Noir’ stance

Nicolas Cage is drawing a hard line in the digital sand against artificial intelligence, revealing that he likely won’t work with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for his now-canceled Prime Video series “Spider-Noir.” Read More

Oct 9, 2026, 5:49 PM

Billionaire Jeff Bezos: ‘Success is not villainy’

Speaking from Blue Origin’s factory floor in Florida, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offered an unapologetic defense of free enterprise, declaring that “success is not villainy.” For Seattle and the broader tech landscape, his comments offer a window into the foundational mindset that built Amazon—and arrive as Washington voters prepare to decide the fate of high-earner tax policy this November. Read More

Oct 8, 2026, 6:18 AM

Amazon unveils Alexa Tablets running Android with Google Play, including a Pro model aimed at work

After more than a decade of focusing on low-cost devices, Amazon is taking its tablets upmarket and moving them to… Read More

Oct 8, 2026, 5:21 AM

Amazon confirms job cuts impacting hundreds of employees in retail unit

Customer service, selling partner support and retail engineering teams were among those hit in Amazon’s latest layoffs. The cuts came during Prime Big Deal Days, which ran Tuesday and Wednesday. Read More

Oct 7, 2026, 7:08 AM

Ring’s first smart lock ditches the key and adds a dial to revive a dead battery

The new $249 deadbolt from Amazon’s Ring is due to ship early next year, featuring a small dial that can be cranked to revive a dead battery. Ring founder and chief inventor Jamie Siminoff tells GeekWire he worked out the idea at night using Amazon’s AI tools. Read More

Oct 5, 2026, 10:49 AM

Amazon hires a veteran Microsoft AI leader to help build its tools for coding and work

Pedram Rezaei, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, will work on the Kiro coding tool and the Quick workplace assistant at AWS. He’s the latest Microsoft executive to make the move this year. Read More

Oct 2, 2026, 2:05 AM

Amazon pledges $1B to data center communities, warns that local opposition threatens U.S. AI lead

Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years on community college, job training and other programs in the U.S. communities that host its data centers. The move responds to a growing backlash that AWS CEO Matt Garman says threatens the country’s lead in AI. Read More

Oct 1, 2026, 7:26 AM

Kindle gets a clicker: Amazon unveils $35 page-turning remote and refreshes its e-reader lineup

Amazon unveiled the Kindle Click, a $34.99 Bluetooth remote for turning pages, alongside a redesigned lineup of Kindle e-readers with flush screens, optional aluminum housings and user-replaceable batteries. Read More

Sep 29, 2026, 9:11 AM

‘Losing a piece of my life’: As Amazon’s Mechanical Turk shuts down, gig workers recall the HITs

Launched in 2005 as a platform where human workers could perform quick digital chores that early software couldn’t handle, the marketplace became a fixture for researchers, remote freelancers, and data labelers worldwide — and its exit is triggering a wave of nostalgia and anxiety across online forums. Read More

Sep 24, 2026, 10:03 AM

Amazon delivery drone noise sparks resident revolt in Texas: ‘It’s like a beehive up there’

New reports this week from The New York Times and NBC’s TODAY show detail how residents in Richardson, Texas, — a Dallas suburb near a major Amazon fulfillment facility — are bearing the brunt of Prime Air’s ambitious expansion. Read More

Sep 24, 2026, 7:00 AM

Amazon will let sellers manage Walmart, eBay, Shopify and TikTok sales from their Amazon dashboards

Amazon is introducing tools to let independent sellers manage their sales on four of its biggest rivals — eBay, Shopify,… Read More

Sep 23, 2026, 7:10 AM

Amazon opens its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropic’s Claude

Amazon announced new AI tools for its independent sellers, led by a plugin that lets them run their Amazon businesses from Anthropic’s Claude or Amazon’s own Quick assistant. Read More

Sep 22, 2026, 10:39 AM

Amazon’s fight with Meta: Who owns the customer relationship when an agent does the buying?

Amazon’s decision to block Meta’s Muse AI agent from shopping on its site raises questions about whether the big platforms will agree on rules for agents, how money will change hands, and whether shoppers want agents in the first place. Read More

Sep 12, 2026, 7:34 AM

Study warns Seattle over-relies on Big Tech; Seattle Times v. Microsoft; Apple’s iPhone Duo echoes the past

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A study commissioned by the City of Seattle says the city is not in… Read More

Sep 10, 2026, 3:35 PM

Amazon expands its Quick AI assistant on mobile in challenge to Microsoft and Google

Amazon is adding the Activity Feed from its Quick desktop app to the AI assistant’s iPhone and Android apps, combining email, Slack messages, calendar invites and CRM updates into one prioritized list. The desktop version, released in preview in April, is now generally available on Windows and macOS. Read More

Sep 10, 2026, 10:00 AM

Amazon updates its Luna gaming service to enable remote multiplayer sessions, add free games

The September update for Amazon’s cloud-based gaming service Luna comes with multiple new features, the most prominent of which is one that will allow up to 7 other players to remotely participate in the same gaming session. Read More

Sep 9, 2026, 4:09 PM

Amazon’s new board member is a cybersecurity founder who sold his last company to Google for $5.4B

Amazon has named Kevin Mandia, the founder of breach-investigation firm Mandiant, to its board of directors, adding security expertise a few months after former NSA director Keith Alexander stepped down. Mandia now runs Armadin, a startup that uses AI to run attacks against corporate networks as a way of testing their defenses. Read More