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36 articlesLast updated 2026-06-21 19:22 UTC
us economy 6 14h ago 3 min read

CPSC Recalls 70,000 GOPO TOYS Teething Products Sold on Amazon After Three Choking Incidents

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled more than 70,000 GOPO TOYS Pull String Teething Toys after silicone strings caused respiratory distress or choking in at least three children. The toys, sold on Amazon from August 2023 through March 2026, violate mandatory toy safety standards. Parents should stop use immediately and contact GOPO Toys for a full refund.

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us tech 6 2d ago 4 min read

Amazon MGM Drops Nearly Finished Sam Altman Biopic Months After Investing $50 Billion in OpenAI

Amazon MGM Studios is walking away from 'Artificial,' a nearly completed Luca Guadagnino film about Sam Altman's 2023 firing and reinstatement at OpenAI, and is helping the filmmakers find a new distributor. The studio had greenlit and fast-tracked the project, but expanded its financial relationship with OpenAI significantly since then. Amazon says the film will be 'better served' elsewhere. It has not explained what changed.

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us tech 6 3d ago 4 min read

Ninth Circuit Weighs Whether a 1986 Hacking Law Covers AI Shopping Agents. Amazon Probably Wins, but the Real Question Is Bigger.

Amazon sued Perplexity AI in November 2025 after Perplexity's agentic browser kept accessing Amazon's systems even after a cease-and-desist. A federal judge sided with Amazon in March 2026, but the Ninth Circuit stayed that injunction pending appeal. The deeper fight is whether a four-decade-old statute written for human hackers should be deciding the future of AI agents.

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us tech 6 3d ago 4 min read

AWS in Early Talks to Sell Trainium AI Chips to Outside Data Centers, Challenging Nvidia's Core Market

Amazon Web Services is exploring selling its Trainium AI chips directly to other companies' data centers, a move that would put it in direct competition with Nvidia for the first time. AWS AI chief Peter DeSantis confirmed the talks to Bloomberg, though the company says discussions are early-stage. The math is striking: Andy Jassy estimated a standalone AWS chip business would run at roughly $50 billion annually, but Nvidia is currently at a $326 billion revenue run rate.

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us tech 5 3d ago 4 min read

Amazon's Three Contradictions: Engineer Investigations, Chip Sales Push, and a $10 Billion Missouri Campus

Since our coverage on June 18, three separate Amazon stories have solidified into a single portrait of a company sprinting toward AI dominance while managing internal dissent and competitive repositioning. Amazon is simultaneously investigating workers who opposed data center expansion, pitching its Trainium chips to outside buyers, and building a $10 billion campus in Missouri.

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us energy 6 3d ago 4 min read

Amazon Commits $10 Billion to Missouri Data Center as FERC's Grid Fast-Lane Order Takes Effect

One day after FERC unanimously ordered six grid operators to fast-track data center connections and put upgrade costs on the data centers themselves, Amazon announced a $10 billion campus in Montgomery County, Missouri. The projects illustrate both the scale of AI infrastructure investment and the core problem FERC's order left unsolved: there is not enough generating capacity waiting on the other end of that fast lane.

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us tech 5 3d ago 4 min read

Amazon Is Investigating Three Engineers Who Testified for Seattle Data Center Limits

Three Amazon software engineers testified at Seattle City Council hearings in favor of a data center moratorium, and one week later found themselves in HR meetings facing potential termination. On June 18, they filed a complaint with the Seattle Office for Civil Rights alleging Amazon violated a city ordinance protecting employees from political-speech retaliation. Amazon says it's investigating a possible policy violation, not punishing political speech.

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us tech 7 3d ago 4 min read

Amazon Is Pitching Its Trainium AI Chips to Outside Customers While JPMorgan Forecasts $800 Billion in Annual GPU Spending by 2030

Amazon is in talks to sell its custom Trainium chips to third-party data centers, a direct shot at Nvidia's grip on the AI hardware market. At the same time, JPMorgan projects that GPU and AI chip spending will grow to roughly $800 billion annually by 2030, up from $340 billion today. Both stories point to the same underlying reality: the chip market is getting more competitive and more expensive at the same time.

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us economy 6 4d ago 4 min read

Jeff Bezos Says AI Will Create a Labor Shortage, Not Mass Unemployment. Amazon Has Cut 30,000 Jobs Since Late 2024.

Speaking at VivaTech in Paris on Wednesday, Jeff Bezos argued that AI will generate demand for human builders and creators rather than displace them. The claim lands against a specific backdrop: Amazon itself has trimmed roughly 30,000 corporate positions since late 2024, partly citing AI efficiency gains, and U.S. employers linked AI to 40% of May's job cuts. Both things can be true long-term, but the short-term data currently cuts against Bezos's optimism.

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us finance 7 4d ago 4 min read

SpaceX Passes Amazon in Market Cap on Day Three of Trading, Briefly Touches $3 Trillion Intraday

Since listing on the Nasdaq at $135 per share last Friday, SpaceX shares have climbed more than 50% and closed Tuesday at $201.80, pushing its market cap to roughly $2.66 trillion and past Amazon's $2.65 trillion. The same day, SpaceX announced a $60 billion all-stock deal to acquire Anysphere, the company behind AI coding assistant Cursor. The free float is still only 5% of total shares, and the first insider lockup release is set for August 11.

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us tech 6 Jun 15 4 min read

Amazon Flagged the Anthropic Fable Jailbreak to the White House. Now Reports Say China May Have Accessed Mythos.

Since the Commerce Department's export control letter landed on the evening of June 12, new reporting has added two significant details: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy personally raised the jailbreak concern to White House officials, and the White House now suspects a China-linked group accessed Mythos 5 before the models were pulled. Anthropic says the government never mentioned China during those conversations. Both models remain offline as of June 14, with no restoration date announced.

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us tech 5 Jun 14 3 min read

Amazon Launches AI Search That Generates Product Images From Text Descriptions

Amazon has rolled out an AI-powered search feature that renders visual product images in real time as shoppers type vague descriptions. The tool targets the common frustration of knowing what you want but not what it's called. Practical tech with a clear commercial motive.

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us tech 6 Jun 14 4 min read

Amazon's Jailbreak Research on Fable 5 Directly Preceded the White House Shutdown Order, Reports Confirm

Since the Commerce Department's export control directive landed earlier this week, the chain of events leading to it has come into sharper focus. Amazon conducted cybersecurity research showing Fable 5 could be prompted to generate cyberattack-usable information, CEO Andy Jassy shared those findings with senior U.S. officials, and the shutdown order followed. Anthropic disputes the 'jailbreak' label and says the same vulnerabilities exist across competing models.

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us tech 6 Jun 14 4 min read

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Raised Security Concerns About Anthropic Models With Trump Officials Before the Shutdown Order

Since Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally late last week, new reporting has clarified where the shutdown pressure originated. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy personally raised security concerns with senior Trump administration officials, and Amazon researchers conducted the jailbreak research that exposed vulnerabilities in Anthropic's model. That puts Amazon, a major Anthropic investor, at the center of the chain of events that pulled its own partner's products offline.

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us tech 6 Jun 13 4 min read

Anthropic Confirms Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Are Still Offline. The Jailbreak That Triggered the Shutdown May Have Come From Amazon.

Since Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's export control order arrived late Friday, June 12, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have remained disabled for all users globally. New reporting from The Wall Street Journal points to Amazon, a major Anthropic compute partner, as the source of the jailbreak report that alarmed the government. Anthropic is publicly contesting the order while simultaneously trying to reverse it.

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us economy 6 Jun 13 3 min read

Sen. Grassley Reintroduces AICOA to Break Amazon's Marketplace Dominance

Sen. Chuck Grassley has reintroduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, targeting Amazon's ability to favor its own products on its marketplace. The bill revives a years-long congressional push to rein in Big Tech platform power. Whether it actually helps consumers or just reshuffles who benefits is the real fight.

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us economy 4 Jun 11 3 min read

Amazon Discloses 2.5 Billion Gallons of Data Center Water Use in 2025, Claims Industry-Leading Efficiency

Amazon released what it says is its first public annual water-use figure for global data centers: 2.5 billion gallons consumed in 2025, down 2 percent from 2024 despite expanded operations. The disclosure arrived days after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some Amazon employees had supported. The numbers come with real caveats that Amazon's own report does not fully address.

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us economy 6 Jun 10 4 min read

Amazon Opens LTL Trucking to All U.S. Businesses, Freight Carrier Stocks Drop Up to 8%

Amazon announced it's expanding its less-than-truckload freight service to any business shipping to any destination in the U.S. — not just its own seller network. Shares of Old Dominion, Saia, ArcBest, XPO, and FedEx Freight all fell on the news. This is the latest move in Amazon's methodical push to turn its internal logistics empire into a revenue-generating business open to outside customers.

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us health 6 Jun 8 4 min read

Zealand Pharma Continues Its 2026 Freefall as Full Survodutide Data Confirms Side Effect Problem; Corning Lands Another AI Megadeal With Amazon

Zealand Pharma's stock dropped another 23% Monday as complete trial data confirmed a 19% patient dropout rate from survodutide's gastrointestinal side effects — making a bad year catastrophically worse. Meanwhile, Corning inked a multi-billion-dollar fiber optic deal with Amazon, its third AI megadeal of 2026, with shares up more than sixfold since the end of 2023.

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us tech 6 Jun 8 4 min read

Europe Is Actively Replacing American Tech — Microsoft, Google, Amazon Are All Losing Ground

Since Trump's second term accelerated European anxiety about U.S. tech dependence, governments and companies across the continent have moved from talk to action. This isn't a boycott — it's a structural shift. And American tech giants are only now starting to grasp how much revenue and leverage they stand to lose.

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us tech 5 Jun 4 4 min read

Amazon Spends $200 Billion on AI Data Centers While Cutting 30,000 Jobs — Its Own Engineers Are Speaking Out

Since Amazon began its mass layoff wave in October 2025, the company has cut more than 30,000 corporate employees while committing $200 billion to AI infrastructure this year alone. That contradiction is now public and loud — Amazon's own engineers took the mic at Seattle City Council to say so. Seattle responded by unanimously passing a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers.

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us energy 5 Jun 4 4 min read

Amazon's $26 Billion Indiana Data Center Buildout Is Now the Largest Tech Investment in State History — Here's What's Actually in the Deal

Since Amazon announced its $15 billion Indiana expansion in November 2025, the full picture has come into focus: a $26 billion combined commitment, a one-of-a-kind utility deal that actually saves regular ratepayers money, and now Amazon employees publicly demanding limits on the very infrastructure their employer is building. The mainstream narrative is missing half the story.

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us tech 5 Jun 2 4 min read

Amazon Sued Over Ring's 'Familiar Faces' Feature That Scanned Millions of People Without Their Consent

A Virginia man filed a federal class action lawsuit Monday against Amazon, alleging Ring's facial recognition feature collected biometric data on millions of Americans who never agreed to be scanned. The feature is already banned in three jurisdictions because of biometric privacy laws — Amazon just doesn't apply those same protections everywhere else. That's the real story.

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us defense 5 Jun 2 4 min read

Pad May Not Return Until 2028, Amazon's Satellite Deadline Is July: The Full Damage Count from the New Glenn Explosion

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says Blue Origin's Cape Canaveral launchpad could be offline until 2028. Amazon faces a regulatory cliff — it must deploy half of 3,200+ satellites by July 2026. National security launches are probably fine. Everyone else is not.

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us economy 4 May 31 4 min read

Target Drops $2 Billion on Store Overhaul, AI Push After Years of Losing Ground to Walmart and Amazon

Target CEO Michael Fiddelke unveiled a $2 billion growth plan on March 3, 2026, covering new stores, remodels, AI investment, and hundreds of millions in added payroll. The company just posted a 6.7% Q1 sales jump and raised its full-year guidance to 4% growth. Shoppers are skeptical. The numbers tell a different story.

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us tech 4 May 28 4 min read

Amazon Quietly Rewired Its Data Centers While Big Tech Launches a Green PR Push

Amazon has been deploying a fundamentally new networking architecture in its data centers since late 2024 — and separately, it's racing to build the next generation of AI infrastructure under a project called 'Titus.' Meanwhile, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft all signed onto a nonprofit green-tech initiative this week. The real story is the scale of money being spent, the energy demand being created, and whether a $5 million startup fund actually means anything.

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us finance 5 May 28 4 min read

Snowflake Signs $6 Billion, 5-Year Deal With AWS — Stock Jumps 36% After Earnings Beat

Snowflake just committed $6 billion to Amazon Web Services over five years, including heavy use of Amazon's homegrown Graviton ARM chips. The announcement came alongside a blowout Q1 earnings report that smashed analyst estimates on both revenue and EPS. This is real money, a real win for AWS, and a real signal about where enterprise AI infrastructure spending is headed.

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us economy 6 May 22 4 min read

Canada Orders Netflix and Amazon to Pay 15% of Revenue Into Canadian Content Fund — U.S. Calls It a Trade Barrier

Canada's broadcast regulator just hit American streaming giants with a 15% revenue levy to fund Canadian content — and Washington is not taking it quietly. The Trump administration is calling it a discriminatory trade barrier, Hollywood studios are threatening retaliation, and now the Carney government is scrambling to review the very rule its own regulator just announced.

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us economy 5 May 19 3 min read

TrumpRx Adds 600 Generic Drugs, Amazon and GoodRx Join Cuban as Partners — Here's What the Fine Print Says

On May 18, 2026, Trump announced a near-sevenfold expansion of TrumpRx.gov, adding over 600 generic drugs through partnerships with Amazon Pharmacy, GoodRx, and Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs. The site has now logged 10 million visits since February. But mainstream coverage is glossing over a critical limitation: TrumpRx doesn't sell you anything — and for most insured Americans, the savings may be minimal.

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us tech 4 May 18 4 min read

Amazon Dominates Western E-Commerce — Here's Why That's More Complicated Than Anyone Is Telling You

Amazon is the undisputed king of Western e-commerce, and the company has ZERO serious domestic challengers at scale. But a federal antitrust case is turning on a question that cuts both ways: is Amazon really a monopoly, or is the FTC drawing the market map to guarantee that conclusion?

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us tech 2 May 16 4 min read

Amazon Cuts Support for 13 Older Kindle Models on May 20 — Users Are Jailbreaking Instead of Buying New

On May 20, 2026, Amazon officially ends software support and store access for 13 Kindle and Fire tablet models released in 2012 or earlier. Your existing library stays readable, but you can't buy, borrow, or download anything new. Rather than shell out for a replacement, a growing number of users are jailbreaking their hardware — and the case for doing so is more reasonable than Amazon would like you to think.

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us finance 5 May 16 4 min read

Berkshire Dumps $8B in Chevron, Exits Amazon and Visa Entirely — Here's the Full Portfolio Purge

Berkshire's 13-F filing reveals the full scope of Greg Abel's Q1 reshuffling: $24 billion in stocks sold, Todd Combs' fingerprints wiped from the portfolio, and a concentrated bet on fewer, bigger positions. The Delta and Alphabet moves got the headlines — but the Chevron dump and the complete erasure of Combs-era picks is the real story.

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us finance 3 May 16 4 min read

Q1 13F Season Closes: Tepper Nearly Doubles Amazon, Ackman Goes All-In on Microsoft, Sundheim Dumps Meta

The May 15 deadline for Q1 2026 SEC 13F filings is now passed, and the full picture is in. David Tepper's Appaloosa made Amazon his single largest holding at ~$900M, Bill Ackman opened a brand-new Microsoft position worth $2.09B, and Daniel Sundheim's D1 Capital wiped out $240M in Meta completely. The smart money is consolidating around AI infrastructure — and abandoning social media.

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us tech 5 May 13 4 min read

Amazon Kills Rufus, Merges Alexa Into Its Main Shopping Site — And Your Data Is Fueling All of It

Amazon launched 'Alexa for Shopping' on May 13, 2026, folding its Rufus AI chatbot into a new agentic assistant embedded directly in the Amazon search bar. The tool can auto-buy products, track prices, and cross-reference your purchase history — all without a Prime membership. The bigger story isn't the feature set. It's how much of your behavioral data Amazon is now routing through one unified AI system.

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us economy 4 May 12 4 min read

Amazon Launches 30-Minute Delivery in Dozens of U.S. Cities, Escalating War on Retail

Amazon is rolling out its 'Amazon Now' service for sub-30-minute delivery across cities including Austin, Denver, Minneapolis, and Phoenix. It's a direct assault on brick-and-mortar retail and gig delivery apps alike. The business case is real — but so are the questions nobody in mainstream coverage is asking.

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us tech 3 May 9 4 min read

Amazon Adds TikTok-Style 'Clips' Feed to Prime Video — Every Streaming Giant Now Chasing Short-Form Dopamine

Amazon Prime Video is rolling out a vertical, scrollable 'Clips' feed inside its app — short snippets of shows and movies designed to hook you before you commit to watching. Netflix and Disney Plus already did this. Every major streaming platform is now copying TikTok's playbook. Whether that's good product design or an admission they can't hold your attention the old-fashioned way is a different question entirely.

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