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117 articlesLast updated 2026-09-07 06:31 UTC
au tech 6 3h ago 3 min read

AirTrunk's Australian Data Centers Top 1.2 Gigawatts as Microsoft, Google and Amazon Sign On

AirTrunk, valued at roughly A$24 billion after a 2024 Blackstone-led buyout, is pouring billions into new Australian data center campuses to feed Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and Oracle's AI demand. Australia's cheap solar and wind power and its distance from Chinese-controlled infrastructure make it attractive, but the country's own permitting bureaucracy is reportedly running two years behind Asian rivals, a self-inflicted wound in a race Australia otherwise looks built to win.

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us tech 7 6h ago 4 min read

Anthropic's $100 Billion AWS Pledge Awaits IPO Paperwork Due After Labor Day

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion to Amazon Web Services back on April 20, and the company's IPO prospectus, expected in the days after Labor Day, is set to finally show the fine print. Amazon's own filings already confirm the backlog boost. What's missing is proof Anthropic's finances can actually carry a decade-long, nine-figure bill.

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us economy 6 14h ago 4 min read

Amazon Cargo Jet Overruns Runway at Miami Airport, Crosses a Road Into a Field

A 32-year-old Boeing 767 freighter flying for Amazon Prime Air overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday after landing from San Juan, crossing a perimeter road and coming to rest in a field with heavy smoke and reported fire. No injuries had been confirmed as of the latest reports, and the FAA and NTSB are set to investigate what went wrong.

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us economy 7 2d ago 4 min read

DOJ Expands Beef Price Antitrust Probe to Walmart, Costco, Amazon and Five Other Grocery Chains

The Justice Department's Antitrust Division sent letters to eight of the country's biggest grocers demanding six years of beef pricing data, widening a probe that started with meatpackers in May. No charges or findings of wrongdoing exist yet, and Republican senators are separately warning Trump's own tariff-cutting moves are hurting the ranchers this investigation claims to protect.

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us economy 8 6d ago 4 min read

FTC and 22 States Sue Amazon Over Alleged Secret Ad Auction Surcharges Totaling $20 Billion

The FTC and attorneys general from 22 states sued Amazon on Monday, alleging the company secretly rigged its ad auctions to overcharge more than a million advertisers by over $20 billion since 2018. Amazon says the lawsuit is misguided and that its auction changes actually saved advertisers $8 billion, no consumer price harm has been shown, and the company plans to fight it in court.

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us finance 7 Aug 31 4 min read

Alphabet, Amazon and Nvidia Booked $160 Billion in AI Paper Gains Last Quarter. None of It Was Cash

SEC filings show Big Tech's blowout Q2 2026 profits were juiced by more than $160 billion in unrealized markups on private AI stakes, led by SpaceX's June IPO and Anthropic's rising valuation. Chipmakers, meanwhile, are the ones actually posting real stock gains this year while Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft shares lag behind.

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us tech 7 Aug 30 3 min read

Tim Cook Hands Apple to John Ternus Tuesday. Wall Street Asks If Apple Repeats Amazon's Post-Bezos Stock Slump

Tim Cook's 15-year run as Apple CEO ends Tuesday, September 1, when John Ternus takes over and Cook shifts to executive chairman. The Motley Fool's Reuben Gregg Brewer is floating a comparison to Amazon, whose stock badly lagged the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 since Jeff Bezos left the top job in 2021. It's a fair question to ask, but it's speculation dressed as analysis, and Apple's stock sitting within 10% of its all-time high says the market isn't buying the doom scenario yet.

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us energy 5 Aug 28 3 min read

Amazon Adds Four Swedish Wind Farms, Pushing Nordic Power Deals Toward 1 Gigawatt

Amazon signed long-term purchase agreements for nearly 200 megawatts from four Swedish wind farms, bringing its Swedish carbon-free power portfolio close to 1 gigawatt across nine projects. The deals are about locking down electricity for AI data centers, not virtue signaling, and Amazon says it's the largest corporate buyer of fossil-free energy in Sweden.

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us economy 8 Aug 27 4 min read

Amazon Triples Nvidia GPU Order to 3 Million Chips as AI Demand Outpaces Forecasts

Amazon and Nvidia announced Wednesday a deal to add 2 million more Nvidia GPUs to AWS data centers by 2028, on top of the 1 million already committed five months ago. Nvidia posted $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue, up 106% year over year, proving the AI buildout still has real money behind it, not just hype.

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cn tech 7 Aug 26 4 min read

Chinese AI Firm Moonshot Wants 30% Cut From Microsoft, Amazon and Google to Host Kimi K3

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup Washington already wants blacklisted, is negotiating with Microsoft, Amazon and Google to host its Kimi K3 model on their clouds, according to Reuters. Moonshot wants up to 30% of the revenue. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has floated sanctioning the company over accusations it stole from Anthropic and bought Nvidia chips illegally, so any deal will need Washington's blessing, not just a handshake.

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us tech 7 Aug 24 4 min read

Amazon Raises 2026 AI Spending to $220 Billion as Clean Energy Investment Tracks Toward $180 Billion

Amazon told investors it now plans to spend $220 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, up $20 billion from its February target, citing rising memory chip costs. Separately, clean energy capital spending hit $74 billion in the first half of 2026 and is on pace for a record $180 billion, driven largely by the same data center demand fueling Amazon's spending spree, not by federal subsidies.

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us tech 6 Aug 24 4 min read

Twitch Streamer Sues Amazon Over Opt-Out AI Training Policy His Lawyers Call Too Little, Too Late

Connecticut streamer Warren Pandiscia is suing Twitch and Amazon, claiming the companies fed his broadcasts into Amazon's AI models without consent or payment, starting as far back as 2024. Twitch's own product chief admitted the opt-out system exists because, in his words, nobody would opt in if given the choice upfront. That admission is now Exhibit A in a lawsuit that could reshape what platforms owe the people who generate their content.

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us tech 6 Aug 23 4 min read Updated

Amazon's Cash Flow Went Negative $7.6 Billion. Wall Street Is Still Betting on It Anyway.

Amazon burned $7.6 billion more cash than it brought in over the past 12 months, the first negative free cash flow reading since 2023, even as operating cash flow jumped 33%. The gap is AI infrastructure spending, and Amazon's own CFO won't say exactly how it plans to keep funding it.

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us finance 5 Aug 22 4 min read

David Tepper's Appaloosa Fund Exits SanDisk After 591% Run, Loads Up on Amazon, CoreWeave and Power Stocks

Appaloosa Management's August 14 filing shows David Tepper sold all 281,250 SanDisk shares after a six-fold gain and cut Micron by 41%, plowing the proceeds into Amazon, TSMC, Nvidia, a new CoreWeave stake, and electricity producers Vistra and NRG Energy. It's a bet that the money in AI now sits in cloud, chips, and the power grid, not the volatile memory-chip trade that made him rich in the first half of 2026.

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us tech 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Amazon Raises Prices on Echo, Kindle, Fire TV and Eero by Up to 60 Percent, Blames Memory Chip Costs

Amazon quietly hiked prices overnight on Echo speakers, Kindles, Fire TV sticks and eero routers, with the base Echo Dot jumping 60 percent to $79.99. Amazon says surging memory and storage chip costs, driven by AI data center demand, left it no choice. Ring products were spared entirely, and Amazon hasn't said why.

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us tech 6 Aug 21 4 min read

Nine Lawsuits Accuse Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Samsung of Harvesting Voices for AI Without Consent

Chicago journalists, podcasters and voice actors filed nine lawsuits in mid-May 2026 accusing nine tech giants of scraping their voice recordings to train AI models without permission, using Illinois' biometric privacy law. The companies have moved to dismiss, arguing no concrete harm was shown, while the plaintiffs' firm calls it one of the biggest biometric privacy violations ever attempted.

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us sports 3 Aug 21 3 min read

Dave Bautista Replaces Ryan Hurst as Kratos in Amazon's God of War, Four Months of Filming Scrapped

Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television confirmed Dave Bautista is taking over the lead role in the God of War TV series after original star Ryan Hurst tore his bicep on set in June. All previously shot footage, including four completed episodes, will reportedly be reshot when production restarts in October.

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us tech 6 Aug 19 4 min read

Amazon Says Drone Deliveries Are Coming to Nearly 500 Cities by Year End

Thirteen years after Jeff Bezos promised 30-minute drone delivery, Amazon says it's finally scaling Prime Air sixfold, adding Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland, Syracuse and Boise by the end of 2026. The tech works, sort of. Whether it survives contact with crashes, noisy neighbors and zoning boards is a different question.

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br energy 6 Aug 18 4 min read

Lula Greenlights Amazon Oil Drilling He Once Called Foreign Meddling to Oppose

Petrobras found oil off the mouth of the Amazon River, and Brazilian President Lula da Silva is calling it a passport to the country's future. He is also pouring $75 million into rebuilding a highway through the rainforest, months before an October election he is not guaranteed to win.

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us tech 7 Aug 18 4 min read

AirTag Tracks Rare Book Shipment to Amazon Warehouse Where Workers Cut Spines and Scan Pages for AI

An investigation by 404 Media planted an AirTag in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas called VGT3, where workers strip bindings and destroy books after scanning them. Amazon won't say it's for AI training, but the practice fits a pattern already exposed in a lawsuit against Anthropic.

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us tech 6 Aug 17 4 min read

Synchrony Puts Amazon, Walmart and Lowe's Credit Cards on a Path Into ChatGPT

Synchrony Financial announced a deal with OpenAI on Monday to eventually let shoppers buy things inside ChatGPT using store cards for Amazon, Walmart and Lowe's. Nothing works yet. Synchrony's own chief strategy officer says general cards are 6 to 12 months out and store-specific cards will take even longer, and nobody's figured out who gets a cut of the fees.

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us economy 8 Aug 16 4 min read

Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft Plan Nearly $600 Billion in 2026 Capex as Wall Street Splits on Whether It Pays Off

Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft are on track to spend close to $600 billion combined on AI infrastructure this year, and Taiwan Semiconductor looks like the clearest beneficiary of that spending. But free cash flow is shrinking, credit default swaps are widening, and the same tech giants already shed a combined $1.35 trillion in market value during a rough stretch this summer.

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us economy 6 Aug 15 4 min read

Mamdani Backs Bill Forcing Amazon to Hire Its Own NYC Delivery Drivers, Business Groups Warn of Cost Hikes

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has endorsed the Delivery Protection Act, which would ban Amazon and FedEx from using subcontracted drivers for last-mile deliveries in the five boroughs. The Teamsters want it passed now; Amazon and a coalition of business groups say it will kill small delivery contractors and raise costs for every household in the city.

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us tech 5 Aug 15 4 min read

Musk Says He Was Wrong About Anthropic. Amazon's $13 Billion Bet Looks Smarter Now.

Elon Musk publicly reversed course on July 9, calling Anthropic the AI industry leader after months of dismissing the company. Amazon has committed roughly $13 billion to Anthropic and stands to collect over $100 billion in AWS cloud spending over the next decade, a deal that's already showing up in AWS's fastest growth in 18 quarters.

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us economy 7 Aug 13 4 min read

Amazon Rations Internal Server Access and Builds Its Own Gas Plant as AI Demand Outstrips Power Supply

Amazon is running low on the two things its empire runs on: electricity and computing capacity. Internally, AWS is telling engineers to cut CPU usage and wait days for server access. Externally, Amazon is building a Texas data center powered by a gas plant permitted to emit more carbon than any power plant in America.

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us finance 6 Aug 13 4 min read

JPMorgan Bundles Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle Debt Into New Credit Default Swap Basket

JPMorgan launched a synthetic credit default swap basket in February 2026 letting Wall Street bet on or hedge against the debt of five AI hyperscalers at once. Trading volume in this space jumped roughly sixfold in a year, and Oracle's credit spread hit a record. Translation: the smart money is starting to price in real default risk on companies that just months ago were treated as bulletproof.

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us tech 8 Aug 12 4 min read

LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack Exposed Credentials at Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung and 2,500 Other Organizations

The malicious code was live for just 40 minutes, but researchers and the FBI warn stolen credentials can still be weaponized months later.

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us tech 6 Aug 12 4 min read

Twitch Confirms It Was Feeding Streamer Content Into Amazon's AI Training By Default

Twitch quietly opted every streamer into training Amazon's generative AI models, then rolled out an opt-out toggle only after streamers noticed and word spread on August 12. You now have to find a buried settings menu to stop Amazon from using your streams, VODs, clips, and chat logs to build AI products.

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us economy 6 Aug 10 4 min read

Mamdani Backs Bill Forcing Amazon to Directly Hire NYC Delivery Workers, Amazon Warns of Job Cuts

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing the Delivery Protection Act, which would make Amazon and similar companies directly employ last-mile delivery workers instead of using subcontractors. Amazon says the bill could push it to pull operations out of the city and put over 5,000 jobs at risk, while the Teamsters and City Hall say it's the only way to hold Amazon accountable for street safety and worker conditions.

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us tech 5 Aug 10 4 min read

AWS Bolts Its Security Tools Onto Rivals' AI Coding Products, Betting on a Zero-Day Surge

Amazon Web Services is wiring its Continuum vulnerability-scanning platform directly into OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code, tools built by its own competitors. The move is a bet that whoever controls the security layer wins the AI coding era, and it comes as AWS warns that a single Anthropic model found thousands of unpatched zero-days during testing.

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us energy 6 Aug 10 4 min read

Texas Utility Backs Abbott's Data Center Queue Pause, Says Amazon Nuclear Deal Unaffected

Vistra Corp told investors it supports Texas Governor Greg Abbott's push to audit and thin the ERCOT interconnection queue, even as the company reported Q2 adjusted EBITDA up 30% to $1.767 billion. Meanwhile PPL's data center joint venture with Blackstone locked up 5 GW of gas turbines and Siemens Energy's turbine backlog hit 69 GW, showing the grid buildout for AI data centers is straining supply chains nationwide.

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us tech 7 Aug 9 3 min read

Amazon's Zoox Gets Federal Green Light to Charge for Robotaxi Rides Starting August 10

NHTSA granted Zoox a two-year exemption allowing it to commercially operate up to 2,500 steering-wheel-free robotaxis, starting Monday, August 10. The exemption also opens a regulatory path for Tesla's Cybercab and any other automaker building vehicles without traditional driver controls. Uber, meanwhile, confirmed a $10 billion commitment to deploy 120,000 autonomous vehicles through its growing web of AV partnerships.

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us energy 8 Aug 8 3 min read

Amazon's Texas Data Center Plant Permitted to Emit 33 Million Tons of CO2 a Year

Amazon bought land in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center that would run on its own 35-turbine gas plant, permitted to release up to 33 million tons of CO2 annually, more than any power plant currently operating in the U.S. Amazon says it won't raise electricity costs for Texans and insists its 2040 net-zero pledge stands, even after its emissions rose 16% last year.

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us energy 7 Aug 8 4 min read

Amazon's Texas Gas Plant Permitted to Emit More CO2 Than the Nation's Largest Coal Plant

Amazon confirmed it acquired the GW Ranch site in Pecos County, Texas, where a 7.65 gigawatt gas plant with 35 turbines will power a new off-grid AI data center. The state permit allows up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year, more than any coal plant in the country, though companies rarely emit anywhere near their permitted ceiling.

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ua economy 7 Aug 8 4 min read

Ukraine Has Hit Nearly 20 Wildberries Warehouses Since July 18, Targeting Russia's Amazon

Ukraine's drone campaign has moved from oil refineries to online shopping, striking close to 20 warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia's dominant e-commerce platform. Kyiv says the sites move military gear alongside shampoo and vacuum cleaners. Moscow and the company deny it, but the fires and the billion-dollar damage bill are real.

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us tech 6 Aug 6 4 min read

Researchers Hijack OpenAI's Atlas Browser Into Spamming WhatsApp Contacts, Attempting Amazon Purchase

Security firm Zenity showed at Black Hat 2026 that OpenAI's Atlas browser could be tricked by hidden webpage instructions into messaging every contact in a user's WhatsApp Web account and into adding an item to an Amazon cart. OpenAI is retiring Atlas on August 9, but researchers say the underlying problem, AI agents blindly following instructions buried in untrusted web content, affects nearly every major AI browser tool on the market.

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us tech 6 Aug 5 4 min read

Amazon's Zoox to Start Charging for Robotaxi Rides in Las Vegas on August 10

After nearly a year of free rides and roughly 500,000 trips, Zoox will finally start billing passengers in Las Vegas starting Monday, August 10. The company got there through a federal safety exemption, not a technology breakthrough, and it still can't charge a dime anywhere else.

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us finance 5 Aug 5 3 min read Updated

Bezos Files to Sell $4 Billion in Amazon Stock the Day It Hits $3 Trillion

Jeff Bezos filed to sell 15 million Amazon shares worth about $4.07 billion, right after Amazon's market cap crossed $3 trillion for the first time. The sale was pre-scheduled under a trading plan from November 2025, not a reaction to the milestone, but the timing still spooked some investors and got CNBC's Jim Cramer to call it a buzzkill.

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us economy 7 Aug 4 4 min read

New Jersey Sues Amazon, Claims It Uses Monopsony Power Over Delivery Drivers

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed the first-ever state monopsony lawsuit against Amazon, alleging the company suppresses pay and working conditions for its third-party delivery drivers while blocking unionization. Amazon says the claims are flatly false and that delivery contractors run independent businesses. This is a legal fight worth watching closely, and it hinges on a legal theory that hasn't been tested by any state court before.

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us tech 5 Aug 4 4 min read

AWS Signs Multiyear Deal to Embed Vibe-Coding Startup Superblocks in Customer Private Clouds

Amazon Web Services and Superblocks announced a multiyear co-marketing agreement letting enterprises run AI app-building tools inside their own AWS environments instead of sending data to outside model providers. It is a small deal for a 50-person startup, but it signals AWS's bigger play: keep enterprise AI spending on its own cloud rather than losing it to OpenAI or Anthropic.

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us energy 6 Aug 1 3 min read

Colombia's Deforestation Rose 5% in 2025, Amazon Loss Stays High

Colombia's forest loss ticked up 5% in 2025 despite years of government pledges to fight it, according to AP News. The Amazon region remains the epicenter, with cattle ranching, coca cultivation and land grabbing driving the destruction.

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us finance 6 Aug 1 3 min read Updated

Amazon's Earnings Beat Sends Stock Up 15%, Dow Notches Fourth Straight Winning Month

Amazon crushed earnings expectations Friday, jumping as much as 15% and dragging the Nasdaq and S&P 500 higher with it, while Apple got punished for a services revenue miss. The real story underneath: bond yields are spiking hard, with the 30-year hitting levels not seen since 2007, and that's the thing actually worth watching, not one company's cloud numbers.

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us finance 8 Aug 1 4 min read

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet Add Nearly $1.5 Trillion in Market Value in One Week on AI Bets

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet added a combined $1.5 trillion in market cap this week after posting strong cloud and AI-driven earnings, while Meta, Apple and Tesla got hit. Wall Street is finally asking the question that matters: can any of this AI spending actually turn a profit, or is this the biggest bet in corporate history running on faith.

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us economy 6 Jul 31 3 min read

Laser Scans Reveal a Lost Amazon Civilization Built Tens of Thousands of Earthworks 2,000 Years Ago

A new lidar survey published in Nature found 396 previously unknown earthworks in the Brazilian Amazon, built by a civilization researchers call the Aquiry between 600 B.C. and A.D. 850. Researchers estimate the civilization may have included up to 3 million people at its peak and left behind as many as 30,000 structures across a region long assumed to be untouched wilderness.

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us economy 6 Jul 31 4 min read

Amazon Collected $600 Million in Trump Tariff Refunds, Will Return Some to Shoppers

Amazon told analysts Thursday it received about $600 million in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down Trump's IEEPA tariffs in February. The company says only customers where it can trace a direct pass-through will get automatic refunds; the rest of the money goes toward Amazon's general low-price push, not your wallet.

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us tech 8 Jul 31 4 min read Updated

Amazon Raises 2026 AI Spending to $220 Billion as AWS Growth Hits Five-Year High

Amazon posted second-quarter revenue of $200.6 billion and AWS growth of 36.7%, its fastest cloud acceleration since 2021, then hiked its 2026 capital spending forecast to $220 billion. Shares jumped double digits after hours. CEO Andy Jassy says demand still outstrips capacity, and that won't change through 2027 or, he says, even 2028.

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us tech 8 Jul 30 3 min read

Amazon Ties North Korean Hacking Group to Four Major Open-Source Software Compromises

Amazon researchers say a North Korea-linked hacking group compromised four widely used JavaScript packages, including one downloaded over 100 million times a week, by tricking trusted maintainers into publishing malicious updates. The findings show how a handful of infiltrated code libraries can hand hackers a back door into thousands of downstream companies at once.

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ua defense 7 Jul 29 3 min read

Ukraine Shifts Drone Strikes From Russian Oil to Russia's Amazon, Hitting Wildberries Warehouses

After months of hammering Russian refineries and energy sites, Ukraine's drones are now going after Wildberries, Russia's dominant online retailer, in an effort to choke supply chains and rattle small businesses. Moscow is already lining up state bank support to keep the company afloat, a sign the pressure is landing somewhere real.

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us finance 7 Jul 29 4 min read

Alphabet Fell 7% on Capex News. Now Microsoft, Meta and Amazon Face the Same Test This Week

Alphabet's stock dropped 7% last Thursday after it raised its 2026 AI spending forecast, and Wall Street is no longer rewarding hyperscalers just for spending more. Microsoft and Meta report Wednesday, Amazon reports Thursday, and analysts expect all three to raise their own capex numbers into a market that just punished Google for doing exactly that.

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us tech 5 Jul 28 4 min read

AI Startup Recursive Superintelligence Signs Roughly $400-Million Amazon Compute Deal — Reports Disagree on Exact Figure

Recursive Superintelligence, which emerged from stealth earlier this year with $650 million raised, has signed a multi-year Amazon Web Services compute contract that outlets have variously reported as $400 million and $410 million. CEO Richard Socher says it's the first of many such deals and promises tangible products by October. That's a lot of faith in a company barely six months old.

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us tech 6 Jul 28 3 min read

Amazon Files With FCC For 5,105-Satellite Network To Compete With SpaceX On Phone Connectivity

Amazon asked federal regulators for a license to build a 5,105-satellite constellation aimed at connecting directly to mobile phones, using spectrum from its recent Globalstar acquisition. The plan depends on rockets that don't fully exist yet, and even SpaceX's own carrier partner admits barely anyone uses this technology today.

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us tech 6 Jul 27 3 min read

Amazon Files for FCC Approval to Launch 5,105 Satellites for Direct-to-Phone Network by 2028

Amazon filed with the FCC on Saturday to build a satellite constellation nearly double the size of its current Kuiper network, aimed at beaming cell service straight to phones without a tower. It's Amazon's answer to Starlink's head start, built on spectrum from its pending $11.6 billion Globalstar buyout, and it's still years from actually working.

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ua defense 7 Jul 26 4 min read

Ukraine's Drone Campaign Hits Russia's Amazon, Wildberries, Nine Times in a Week, Killing at Least Nine

Since Kyiv's long-range strike campaign shifted from oil refineries to logistics networks last weekend, Ukrainian drones have hit at least nine Wildberries warehouses across Russia, from St. Petersburg to Crimea, killing at least nine people and destroying an estimated $2.2 billion in merchandise. Separately, Russia says a Ukrainian drone strike killed 12 civilians at a holiday camp in occupied Zaporizhzhia, a claim Kyiv has not addressed.

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us tech 4 Jul 25 4 min read

Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Amazon Over HBO Executive Poaching

Warner Bros. Discovery filed suit against Amazon, claiming the company deliberately induced HBO Max marketing chief Pia Barlow to break her contract 16 months early. The lawsuit also flags a failed attempt to lure away HBO's head of drama programming, showing this wasn't a one-off hire but an alleged pattern.

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us finance 8 Jul 24 4 min read

Moody's Warns AI Spending Boom Is Straining Balance Sheets at Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle and CoreWeave

Moody's Ratings says the $785 billion AI infrastructure spree this year, headed toward $1 trillion in 2027, is pushing hyperscalers into debt and off-balance-sheet leases at a scale the ratings firm calls unprecedented. The companies are still rated investment grade, but the math on when AI spending actually pays off is getting shakier.

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us tech 6 Jul 24 3 min read

AWS Outage in Oregon Knocks Out PSN, DoorDash, Reddit and Apple Pay for Hours

A connectivity failure in Amazon Web Services' US-West-2 region in Oregon started around 6:40 a.m. ET Friday and disrupted PlayStation Network, DoorDash, Reddit, Hulu and Apple Pay for hours. It's another reminder that huge swaths of the internet run through Amazon's servers, and when Amazon sneezes, everybody catches a cold.

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us tech 6 Jul 24 3 min read

Amazon Now Requires Sellers to Label AI-Generated People in Product Images After New York Law

Amazon told third-party sellers this week they must tag any product images or videos containing photorealistic AI-generated people, following a New York law requiring disclosure of synthetic performers in ads. The policy has real gaps, TV and movie characters are exempt, and Amazon hasn't said exactly when it'll show shoppers a label.

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us tech 4 Jul 24 3 min read

Amazon Folds Cloud-Gaming Service Luna Into Prime Video on Fire TV

Amazon added a Games tab to Prime Video on Fire TV devices, letting Prime subscribers stream titles like Fallout 4 and Hogwarts Legacy through its Luna cloud-gaming tech without leaving the video app. It's Amazon chasing Netflix's casual-gamer play instead of competing for hardcore gamers, and right now it's US and UK only.

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us health 7 Jul 22 4 min read

Amazon and TikTok Shop Sold "Sterling Silver" Jewelry That Was Actually Mostly Cadmium, Testing Finds

A Sunday Times investigation found a $4 Amazon ring listed as 925 sterling silver was over 92% cadmium, more than 9,000 times the UK legal limit, and a TikTok Shop bracelet tested at nearly 3,300 times over. Cadmium is a carcinogen with no comprehensive U.S. federal limit for adult jewelry, so this stuff is legal to sell here even though the UK would ban it at the border.

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us energy 6 Jul 21 4 min read

Amazon Fires Dropped 80% in 2025, Hitting Lowest Level Since Satellite Records Began

Brazil's Amazon burned 3.1 million hectares in 2025, down from a record 15.8 million in 2024, according to MapBiomas. The drop came from a delayed rainy season, less deforestation, and communities scared straight by 2024's disaster, not just government policy. Researchers warn a possible El Niño could reverse the trend fast.

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