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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

Jul 17, 2026, 9:48 AM

Departing AWS exec Dave Brown is reportedly joining Meta, as Facebook parent mulls its own cloud

Dave Brown, the senior AWS executive whose departure Amazon announced this week, is joining Meta to work on its data center build-out, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The move comes as Meta weighs whether to launch a cloud business of its own, which would put it in competition with AWS. Read More

Jul 15, 2026, 12:40 PM

AWS EC2 and AI leader Dave Brown to exit, replaced by Amazon exec and Microsoft vet Dave Treadwell

Dave Brown is leaving Amazon Web Services after nearly 19 years, departing at the end of July for a new role outside the company. Dave Treadwell, a longtime Amazon executive who spent 27 years at Microsoft, will take over AWS Compute and ML Services on Aug. 1. Read More

Jul 7, 2026, 6:00 AM

An agent in the empty chair: Amazon vets launch Primitive Labs, using AI to model customer behavior

Founded by former Amazon AGI and AWS colleagues and backed by a16z Speedrun, Primitive Labs is building AI agents that stand in for a company’s customers, letting product teams see how people will react to a new feature or design before it ships.
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Jul 6, 2026, 1:09 PM

Filing shows Amazon cut 57 tech jobs in Washington state in recent weeks

Amazon is cutting 57 jobs in Washington, including roles at the director and senior manager levels. The cuts include 16 software engineers as well as product managers and creative marketing employees working in Seattle and Bellevue offices. Nine remote employees were also let go. Read More

Jul 1, 2026, 9:00 AM

The cost of the AI boom: Amazon emissions jump 16% as company stands by net-zero pledge

Amazon’s 2025 sustainability report reveals a 16% carbon emissions spike driven by AI data center expansion, even as the company maintains its 2040 net-zero goals. Read More

Jun 29, 2026, 8:32 AM

Prime Day shows how AI is changing shopping, testing Amazon’s bet against ChatGPT and others

Adobe found that shoppers who reached retail sites through AI chatbots were 40% more likely to buy during Prime Day than those from search, email or social media — the first time AI-referred traffic converted best. Amazon has blocked rival shopping agents from its store while building its own assistant. Read More

Jun 22, 2026, 9:37 AM

Amazon MGM Studios drops film about Sam Altman months after tech giant’s $50B OpenAI deal

Amazon MGM Studios has backed away from “Artificial,” a nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The studio said last week that the film would “be better served if it were released by a different studio.” Read More

Jun 19, 2026, 3:22 PM

Worlds collide at Amazon Spheres as pro-Palestinian group protests cloud giant’s Israel contracts

Carrying bullhorns and signs depicting Amazon executives as war criminals, about two dozen people protested outside the Spheres in Seattle on Thursday evening, calling on the company to stop providing technology to Israel for what they described as genocide in Gaza. Read More

Jun 18, 2026, 1:51 PM

Amazon employees file civil rights complaint over company probe into data center testimony

An employee group filed a complaint against Amazon with the City of Seattle, alleging the company is wrongly investigating three engineers for testifying before the City Council in favor of regulating data centers. Amazon says the probe is focused on whether employees followed its procedures for speaking as company representatives. Read More

Jun 17, 2026, 8:14 AM

Amazon unveils new AI agents, trying to thread the needle between autonomy and human control

AWS used its New York Summit to roll out AI agents that act on their own — from fixing security vulnerabilities to triaging email — while trying to keep humans in control of how far they go. Read More

Jun 16, 2026, 7:01 AM

Two pizzas and a prototype: How agentic AI is rewiring Amazon’s teams and upending its traditions

Swami Sivasubramanian runs dozens of small teams building agentic AI tools and products inside Amazon Web Services. They’ve been using the tools themselves to quietly change how they work — starting with one of Amazon’s most sacred processes. Read More

Jun 15, 2026, 3:42 PM

Five years in, new analysis links Seattle’s ‘JumpStart’ tax to downtown decline

A new Downtown Seattle Association report says the city’s JumpStart payroll tax has helped drive jobs and office value out of downtown over its first five years, pointing to booming Bellevue as the contrast. Supporters, including Mayor Katie Wilson, call the tax a success. Read More

Jun 15, 2026, 10:11 AM