Amazon is asking some employees to move closer to the office Doubling down on its efforts to bring corporate and tech employees back to the office, Amazon is asking some workers… Read More
Play Podcast Amazon’s Alexa chief on the rise of ChatGPT, and why the comparison isn’t fair to either Play Why can’t Alexa users have sophisticated, nuanced voice interactions with Amazon’s assistant, similar to text-based conversations with OpenAI’s ChatGPT? That… Read More
Amazon to expand palm recognition technology to all 500+ U.S. Whole Foods stores Amazon says it will roll out its biometric palm-recognition technology to its more than 500 Whole Foods Markets stores in… Read More
Tech Moves: Amazon names new leader of Amazon Music; Zendesk hires Google vet as CMO — Amazon appointed Ryan Redington as GM of Amazon Music, leading the tech giant’s streaming audio business. Redington, a 15-year veteran… Read More
Play Podcast Amazon’s Alexa and the rapid evolution of AI: A conversation with Alexa chief Rohit Prasad Play Rohit Prasad grew up in the Star Trek era, fascinated by the idea of interacting with computers via voice. So… Read More
Rare corpse flower blooms in Amazon’s Spheres and thousands line up to snap a pic and take a sniff A line of people snaking through the Spheres on Wednesday and Thursday this week ended with a photo op on… Read More
Large graffiti painted on street outside Amazon’s Seattle HQ targets company as ‘Prime polluter’ Story updated with comment from Amazon. Amazon and CEO Andy Jassy were the targets of a large graffiti message painted… Read More
‘Largest sales day in Amazon’s history’: Customers bought 375M items during Prime Day Amazon released sales data for its annual Prime Day shopping event that took place July 11 and 12 this week.… Read More
Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.… Read More
Invite-only deals give Amazon Prime Day a new twist, with secretive selection process Interested in a 75% discount on a 43-inch 4K Amazon Fire TV, or a 15% price cut on a Motorola… Read More
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on making AI chips, Prime Video spend, speeding up shipping Amazon CEO Andy Jassy spoke with CNBC for a wide-ranging interview about AI, Prime Video, and more. Here were some… Read More
Amazon now has more than 5,000 electric delivery vehicles in the U.S. Amazon announced Thursday that it has more than 5,000 Rivian electric delivery vehicles on the road across more than 800… Read More
Amazon’s Sparrow is leaving the nest: Trailblazing warehouse robot is ready for a wider rollout SAN MARCOS, Texas — Just off Interstate 35, midway between San Antonio and Austin, the newest member of Amazon’s robotic… Read More
Amazon partners with Staples to add nearly 1,000 drop-off locations for customer returns Amazon is partnering with the office supply chain Staples to add another place where Amazon customers can drop off returns.… Read More
Amazon, Uber, and Lyft sue seller over rogue rideshare signs — here’s what he says in response Updated with additional details and statements from Amazon, Uber and Lyft. Uber and Lyft are joining forces with Amazon in… Read More
Amazon looks to boost generative AI projects with new $100M cloud initiative Amazon Web Services says it will invest $100 million in a new initiative to connect its machine learning and artificial… Read More
From vacant storefronts to vibrant hubs: Revisiting ‘third places’ for urban resilience In Seattle, city government and the Downtown Seattle Association continue to build on the “Amazon Great Return” through a variety… Read More
FTC sues Amazon, alleging it duped consumers into buying hard-to-cancel Prime subscriptions The Federal Trade Commission is suing Amazon for allegedly duping customers into signing up for subscriptions to its Prime service… Read More
Play Podcast Amazon vs. Walmart: Reporter and author Jason Del Rey on the ‘defining business clash’ of our era Play Amazon famously professes to obsess about customers, not competitors, but if the company really wants to focus its business, concentrating… Read More
Amazon will hold Prime Day 2023 on July 11-12, adding invite-only deals and ‘Buy with Prime’ sites Amazon will hold its 2023 Prime Day sales event on Tuesday, July 11, and Wednesday, July 12, the Seattle-based e-commerce… Read More
Amazon closes another Go convenience store in downtown Seattle; location was second to open Amazon closed another of its Amazon Go convenience stores in downtown Seattle, three months after it announced that eight of… Read More
Amazon officially opens first phase of HQ2 in Virginia with room for 14k employees Free bananas and dogs at the office — Amazon is officially open for business at its HQ2 in Arlington, Va.… Read More
Amazon asks industry and government to help fight fake reviews, as AI adds a new wrinkle A lawsuit filed by Amazon this week in Seattle illustrates the challenge of combatting fake reviews. The company is seeking… Read More
Amazon board member Patty Stonesifer named interim CEO of The Washington Post Patty Stonesifer, a longtime Amazon board member and former CEO of the Gates Foundation, was named interim CEO at The… Read More
Amazon Games’ latest publishing partnership is with NCSOFT for ‘Throne and Liberty’ The next release from Amazon Games’ publishing arm is a new massively-multiplayer online title from the developer behind Lineage, AION,… Read More
Report: Amazon may bring ad-supported tier to Prime Video Amazon is discussing plans to create an ad-supported tier to its Prime Video platform, according to a report from The… Read More
Inside Amazon’s Spheres: After five years, the plants and employees are living well together When the Spheres first opened on Amazon’s headquarters campus in Seattle, Jeff Bezos said the 40,000 plants inside the glass… Read More
Downtown Seattle activity hits new high since pandemic, buoyed by Amazon office mandate Foot traffic in downtown Seattle and around Amazon’s headquarters hit record highs in May, as measured since March 2020 when… Read More
Play Podcast Voices from the Amazon walkout: Why some employees are speaking out and pushing back Play Hundreds of Amazon employees walked out of the office in Seattle this week — gathering between the company’s towers while… Read More
How big was that Amazon walkout crowd? Paging Sean Spicer. The former White House press secretary made a quick name for himself at the outset of Donald… Read More
