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President and CEO of Amazon, overseeing its e-commerce, AWS cloud, and devices businesses after succeeding founder Jeff Bezos in 2021.
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Amazon is blocking Meta's Muse agent with a Conditions of Use popup and a bot wall, ten days after the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear its Perplexity case. Agent builders now have to plan for stores that refuse entry through their own terms, whatever the user asked for.
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Amazon is exploring moving about $8 billion of installed Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips into a mostly debt-funded vehicle that would lease them back. Amazon has already bought that hardware, so the deal would first hand it back cash for spending already done.
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Prime Air's sixfold expansion is a real escalation of the last-mile fight with Walmart. It is also still a rounding error on Amazon's parcel volume, and the economics remain unproven.
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Amazon repriced Echo, Kindle, Fire TV and eero overnight and blamed memory costs. The models it left alone hold more memory than the ones it raised.
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Six months after strikes damaged facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, AWS says resources held only in Bahrain cannot be restored. Its resiliency guidance leaves cross-region copies to the customer to configure.
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Meta's Muse agent reached the top of Apple's free app chart by doing users' shopping for them, and Amazon shut it out of its store on contract grounds, a theory Amazon already lost a ruling on against Perplexity.
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Amazon's robots.txt now disallows ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot, and in ZDNET's tests the shopping agent sent a buyer to Walmart, eBay and a retailer called Soaplicity instead of Amazon listings.
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New disallow rules for ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot went into Amazon's robots.txt without an announcement. Amazon earns roughly $56 billion a year from advertising that bills only while shoppers are on its own pages.
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The new money is $5 billion today and up to $20 billion tied to commercial milestones Amazon did not define, against a ten-year Anthropic commitment to spend more than $100 billion on AWS silicon.
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The agreement secures up to 5 gigawatts and ties Claude's training to Amazon's chip roadmap through Trainium4, with nearly 1GW due online by the end of 2026 while paid-tier users still hit peak-hour limits.
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Instinct and Meta's Muse are shipping to consumers, but the retailers holding the price and product feeds have their own plans, and the only conversion figure on the record is Walmart's unhappy one.
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The $60.9bn of AI orders equals 64% of the $95bn backlog Dell carried out the door, so the book is fresh rather than deep, and the raised $192bn guide needs the quarters still to come to grow faster than 70%.
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AWS supplied $6.4bn of the group's $8.3bn increase in quarterly operating income. Over the same twelve months, Amazon's net capital spending reached $169bn, the same figure as AWS's annualized revenue.
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An internal forecast reviewed by Business Insider puts Amazon's own network at 88.7% of its US packages by 2029, ahead of the company's earlier plan. What UPS and USPS still carry stays roughly flat while Amazon's own volume absorbs the growth.
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Meta, Amazon and Alphabet are now paying for data centres with bonds, equity and asset-manager ventures. S&P says leverage is not blowing up; Moody's says the buildout already threatens credit quality.
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The company says it absorbed DRAM and NAND increases for as long as it could. If the cheapest hardware vendor is repricing overnight, a bill of materials with silicon in it should not wait for renewal.
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Orders grew about 2.9x since November while the store count grew 1.7x. The other 1.7x is each store doing more work, which is what density actually buys.
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Walmart's Indian arm has roughly tripled Minutes' daily orders since November, and its dark stores are already about as productive as Instamart's. Third place is now contestable.
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Fortune argues that as frontier models converge, advantage goes to whoever funds and runs infrastructure most cheaply. That makes capital structure the variable investors have to underwrite.
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