Every Amazon story

47 stories tracking Amazon, ranked newest first, from TechSnif's permanent archive.

Company

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac ·

OpenAI debuts Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and Vercel are on its steering committee

OpenAI's GPT-5 turns one tomorrow, and the company is marking the week by looking beyond individual models.

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch ·

Amazon's Zoox will start charging for rides in Las Vegas from August 10, marking the launch of its commercial operations after offering free rides since 2025

Nearly a year ago, Zoox opened its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas. Now, it is ready to start charging for those rides.

Blake Brittain / Reuters ·

A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its AI-powered agentic shopping tools on Amazon's (AMZN.O) platform.

Jody Godoy / Reuters ·

New Jersey files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging it abuses its dominance to impose low pay and poor conditions on independent delivery drivers

New Jersey sued Amazon.com on Tuesday, accusing the online retailer of abusing its market power over independent delivery drivers.

Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg ·

Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them

Amazon.com Inc. has been sued by Australia's consumer watchdog for introducing advertising to its Prime Video streaming service …

Catherine Perloff / The Information ·

Amazon is weighing using OpenAI's and its own Nova models to cut costs after Anthropic raised prices for using its models in Amazon products

As Anthropic grows to become a leading AI model used by enterprises, it's been flexing its power with customers

Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·

AWS Summit: Amazon unveiled AWS Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, AWS Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more

Amazon Web Services is announcing a new set of AI agents for businesses, developers, and individual users …

Katie Tarasov / CNBC ·

Amazon announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar deal with Corning to produce optical fiber for its US data centers; Corning shares jump 8%+

Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fiber to power and connect its rapidly expanding U.S. data centers …

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg ·

FOIA docs reveal Amazon's extensive control over delivery drivers it insists are not employees, in a case the NLRB sought to settle on terms favorable to Amazon

The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon's control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon's former lawyer in charge.

Financial Times ·

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which exploded during testing on Thursday, was set to ferry 48 Amazon Leo satellites on Monday; Amazon paid Blue Origin $2.7B

Failure comes days before planned launch of internet satellites for Amazon

Todd Spangler / Variety ·

Amazon's Alexa+ now produces AI-generated "podcasts" on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI "co-hosts", using content from media outlets

The podcast sector suddenly may have a big new player: Amazon's Alexa+ AI-powered voice assistant.

Deborah Sophia / Reuters ·

Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, which lets companies use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver everything from raw materials to final products

Amazon.com (AMZN.O) said on Monday it was rolling out "Amazon Supply Chain Services", opening up its logistics network for other businesses to use.

Matt Day / Bloomberg ·

Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs

Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have struck a multibillion-dollar deal for the social-media giant to rent hundreds of thousands …

Politico ·

A look at EU efforts to cut reliance on US tech; study: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google hold ~70% of EU cloud and US vendors get 80% of enterprise software spend

Thanks to Trump, EU governments are trying to break their overreliance on U.S. technology. It won't be cheap or easy.

Ashley Capoot / CNBC ·

Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years

Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion that it's poured into the artificial intelligence startup …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·

Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, noting that it has a "proven track record" with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar

Amazon.com Inc.'s takeover of Globalstar Inc. is poised to benefit one of the company's biggest rivals in hardware devices: Apple Inc.

Hayden Field / The Verge ·

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is "grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google", which overstates its "run rate by roughly $8B"

OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday …

Michael Kan / PCMag ·

Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10

The Luna game-streaming service is getting an overhaul, with Amazon pulling the plug on game purchases and hosting third-party game stores and subscriptions.

Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·

Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year

Andy Jassy's new letter to Amazon shareholders is a data-heavy defense of the tech giant's biggest bets

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge ·

Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read

Starting May 20th, Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't have access to the Kindle Store.

Lauren Goode / Wired ·

How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services

Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in.

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology ·

Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones "hard down" in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be "unavailable for an extended period"

Amazon tells its employees to deprioritize these regions as the Iran war deals meaningful damage to its infrastructure in the Gulf.