22 stories on Amazon since Apr 29, 2026, newest first.
Amazon keeps 2026 capital spending at $220 billion as AWS sales rise 39.3% to $46 billion. Negative free cash flow exposes the price of AI capacity.
Amazon is in talks to acquire Decart for $7 billion, a world simulation startup Anthropic rejected at $6B, reshaping the AI compute race.
US utilities warned Amazon its Mississippi AI data centers face disconnection during peak demand, exposing how AI power growth breaks the grid.
Amazon and Constellation Energy sign a 20-year, 690 MW nuclear deal at Calvert Cliffs, backing $3 billion in Maryland investment for AI data centers.
Zoox begins paid rides in Las Vegas today without a steering wheel, the first US approval for a human-control-free commercial robotaxi.
xAI Grok 4.3 achieves sub-1% hallucination while costing 2-5x less than GPT-4o Reasoning, now available on Amazon Bedrock with configurable reasoning effort.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged Anthropic's Fable 5 to Trump officials, triggering the export ban that shut down both of Anthropic's most advanced AI models.
Amazon's multibillion-dollar Corning fiber pact creates 1,000 North Carolina jobs and signals optical cable as AI infrastructure's real bottleneck.
Amazon's next-gen Proteus warehouse robot now takes plain-English commands, part of a $11.6B European push as it hires 25,000 and automates fulfillment.
Amazon MGM Studios and AWS launched the GenAI Creators' Fund and greenlit three AI animated series for Prime Video, built on the new Project Nara platform.
Amazon launches a free 24/7 Health AI agent for all US customers and gives 200 million Prime members five free One Medical video visits a year.
Amazon opens its AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant to outside retailers, with Kate Spade first to deploy a gift concierge built on Bedrock AgentCore.
Amazon's warehouse fleet just passed 1 million robots as its DeepFleet AI cut travel time 10% and Sequoia sped inventory handling 75% across its network.
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft will spend a combined $725 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, up 77% from 2025, straining the global power grid.
Amazon retired Rufus after 300 million users, replacing it with Alexa for Shopping, an agentic AI that tracks prices and buys from third-party retailers.
Amazon launched AI agent stablecoin payments via Coinbase and Stripe, tapping a $317B market where 2025 on-chain volume already surpassed Visa and Mastercard.
OpenAI models and Codex are now on Amazon Bedrock, ending the de facto Azure exclusivity that shaped enterprise AI deployment strategy.
In a single April deal, Anthropic locked in $5B from Amazon, pledged $100B to AWS, and revealed annualized revenue surpassing $30B, officially overtaking OpenAI.
Sage and AWS launched autonomous finance agents for AP, payroll, and compliance for 3.2 million SMB customers on April 29, 2026, via Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
Amazon's new "Join the Chat" feature lets shoppers ask real-time questions to an AI audio host during product summaries, marking the most significant shift in e-commerce discovery since customer reviews.
Amazon Quick launches as AWS brings GPT-5.5, Codex, and OpenAI Managed Agents to Bedrock via a $38B deal, ending Microsoft's seven-year exclusive lock on OpenAI models.
OpenAI ends its 7-year cloud exclusivity with Microsoft, freeing models to ship on AWS and Google Cloud as Amazon seals a $50B investment deal