Amazon (AMZN) News

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

Aug 31, 2026, 2:14 PM

Amazon accused of rigging ad auctions to inflate prices in new suit filed by FTC and 22 states

State attorneys general and federal regulators have sued Amazon, alleging the tech giant deceptively inflated advertising prices by $20 billion through fake auction participants and hidden surcharges. Amazon denies the claims, arguing that its pricing structure reflects standard industry approaches and relies on ad relevance, boosting performance for advertisers. Read More

Aug 31, 2026, 10:36 AM

Amazon lays off 121 workers across corporate and fulfillment jobs in Washington state

The largest single concentration of cuts is at the SEA106 building in Bellevue, where 49 employees — ranging from entry-level software development engineers and applied scientists to a vice president of legal and senior software managers — were notified. Read More

Aug 28, 2026, 10:08 AM

Tech Moves: Former Xbox exec named Dolby CEO; Microsoft AI exits; new Fred Hutch leaders

— Marc Whitten, a former Microsoft and Amazon executive, was named president and CEO of San Francisco-based Dolby Laboratories. He… Read More

Aug 26, 2026, 8:19 AM

Amazon to acquire DuckLabs, adding the team behind DuckDB amid broader shakeup in cloud data

Amazon is acquiring DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, the fast-growing open-source database developers use to analyze large amounts of data without paying for a cloud data warehouse. The team joins AWS, but the DuckDB project itself stays free and open source under an independent foundation. Read More

Aug 25, 2026, 9:53 AM

Report: Amazon eyes ‘fully automated’ delivery stations to bring robotics to the last mile

Amazon is developing an internal initiative called Project Tetromino to build “fully automated” delivery stations, according to an internal planning document obtained by Business Insider. The effort could rely on technology from Boxbot, a robotics startup that uses AI-driven storage trays to sequence packages for vehicle loading. Read More

Aug 19, 2026, 1:31 PM

Want to know what Jeff Bezos brings to Liverpool FC? Study Amazon’s Leadership Principles

GeekWire co-founder John Cook talks with The Redmen TV about Jeff Bezos’ new ownership stake in Liverpool FC, his first major foray into global sports ownership, and what his business philosophy could mean for one of the world’s most storied soccer clubs. Read More

Aug 18, 2026, 7:18 PM

Amazon drone delivery set to expand nationally, reaching nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns this year

Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service is finally going national. It’s a milestone nearly 13 years in the making: Jeff Bezos unveiled the program on 60 Minutes in December 2013, to widespread skepticism. Both the technology and the regulations took far longer than expected. Read More

Aug 17, 2026, 5:54 PM

How an AirTag planted by a reporter led to a secret Amazon site where old books are cut apart and scanned

404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where a team cuts the bindings off books and scans the pages. The reporting method has roots in a Seattle non-profit group. Read More

Aug 14, 2026, 3:19 PM

Amazon’s Twitch is using livestreams to train its generative AI, and nobody’s happy with it

Amazon indicated for the first time this week that any video broadcast via its livestreaming platform Twitch could be used to train generative AI, unless users take steps to avoid it, which has caused a significant backlash from both audiences and content creators. Read More

Aug 12, 2026, 6:59 AM

This former Amazon exec is moving his startup’s HQ to Texas, and he has a few notes for Seattle

Auger will keep and grow its 115-person engineering office in Bellevue, but co-founder and CEO Dave Clark has relocated the supply chain startup’s headquarters to North Dallas. He explains the decision, and assesses the business climate in the region he’s leaving. Read More

Aug 11, 2026, 8:27 AM

Amazon expands Locker package pickup to more than 750 U.S. college locations

The expanded footprint — part of Amazon’s broader network of more than 25,000 delivery hubs nationwide — is designed to integrate directly into students’ daily routines without adding additional costs. Read More

Aug 3, 2026, 10:38 AM

Amazon tops $3 trillion and Microsoft surges as Wall Street sets aside AI spending fears, for now

Amazon passed $3 trillion in market value for the first time Monday and Microsoft climbed 5%, extending a rally that followed cloud earnings from both companies last week. The two are now the world’s fourth and fifth most valuable companies. Read More

Jul 30, 2026, 1:54 PM

AWS is ‘booming,’ but Amazon’s free cash flow turns negative on record AI spending

Amazon reported $200.6 billion in second-quarter revenue, up 20%, with AWS growing 37%, its fastest pace since the end of 2021. Free cash flow turned negative for the first time since 2023 as the company poured money into AI data centers. Read More

Jul 29, 2026, 4:38 PM

A bigger role for Swami: Amazon’s agentic AI chief gets broader mandate to shape emerging tech

AWS is giving Swami Sivasubramanian a bigger job. The agentic AI chief will now also oversee emerging technologies and help shape AI strategy across the cloud division, as Amazon reshapes its broader AI strategy and teams. Read More

Jul 29, 2026, 10:45 AM

Amazon earnings preview: Wall Street looks for more cloud growth as AI spending hits a record

Amazon reports second-quarter results Thursday afternoon, with AWS growth expected to accelerate and capital spending on pace for a record $200 billion this year. The big question: How much patience do investors have left for the company’s bet on AI? Read More

Jul 28, 2026, 10:18 AM

Less Amazon, more profit: UPS raises forecast after cutting millions of lower-yield deliveries

The “glide-down” caps an 18-month UPS strategy initiated in early 2025 to scale back low-margin e-commerce shipments for Amazon. Read More

Jul 28, 2026, 9:33 AM

Jeff Bezos says this business is becoming Amazon’s next ‘pillar’

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says the company’s custom AI chip business is poised to become its next “pillar,” joining Marketplace, Prime, and AWS as one of Amazon’s foundational businesses as the tech giant doubles down on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Read More

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Jul 27, 2026, 10:13 PM

Amazon Leo seeks FCC approval to launch 5,105 satellites that would connect with mobile devices

Diredt-to-device network would complement connectivity via fixed antennas and Globalstar’s satellites. Read More

Jul 27, 2026, 2:20 PM

Warner Bros. Discovery sues Amazon over HBO Max exec hire, seeks order blocking future poaching

Warner Bros. Discovery sued Amazon in Los Angeles County Superior Court over the hiring of HBO Max marketing executive Pia Barlow, alleging Amazon induced her to break a contract that ran through October 2027. The suit asks the court to bar Amazon from hiring any Warner Bros. Discovery employee under contract. Read More

Jul 24, 2026, 12:46 PM

Amazon confirms it’s closing key AI site in San Francisco but says work on its top models continues

Amazon is closing its San Francisco AGI site as part of the layoffs it made this week in its artificial general intelligence organization, but said its frontier model research lab will continue. Read More

Jul 23, 2026, 8:46 AM

Amazon puts Luna gaming service inside its Prime Video app, hoping people finally notice

Amazon’s cloud gaming service will now be available in a tab inside the Prime Video app for Fire TV users in the U.S. and U.K. The company’s gaming chief says one of Luna’s biggest challenges is that Prime members don’t know it’s included with their membership. Read More

Jul 22, 2026, 11:41 AM

Amazon cuts jobs in AGI group as it puts more focus on customer-facing AI

Amazon confirmed layoffs in its artificial general intelligence organization, the group behind its Nova models, as the company sharpens its AI focus toward tools for business customers. The cuts follow a year of leadership turnover in the group and a broader run of reductions since January. Read More