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Businesses around Amazon HQ are bustling, a year after tech giant’s return-to-office mandate

During the sunny, summer lunchtime rush around Amazon’s Seattle headquarters campus one day last week, it almost looked and felt… Read More

Environmental groups target Amazon’s climate efforts with Prime Day protest at Seattle HQ

Environmental protesters in Seattle seized on Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday to once again call out the… Read More

Seven years later, longtime Echo Spot user sizes up the first revamp of Amazon’s tiny Alexa device

Amazon’s original Echo Spot has been sitting on the back corner of the desk in my home office for seven… Read More

Costco raises membership fees — is Amazon Prime next?

Costco membership fees will increase for the first time in seven years, the retail giant announced Wednesday. Customers in the… Read More

Amazon’s investment in Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus is its latest foray into fashion

Will Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus help Amazon find its fashion fit? That’s the question after the news last… Read More

Amazon discontinues Astro for Business robot security guard to focus on Astro home robot

Astro is leaving its job to spend more time with family. Amazon informed customers and employees Wednesday morning that it… Read More

Jeff Bezos selling $5B worth of Amazon shares as company’s stock hits all-time high

Jeff Bezos is selling 25 million Amazon shares worth $5 billion, according to a regulatory filing on the day the… Read More

Amazon hires founders from well-funded enterprise AI startup Adept to boost tech giant’s ‘AGI’ team

Amazon is amping up its AI efforts by hiring executives from Adept, a San Francisco-based startup building “agents” that automate… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon team up to launch Xbox cloud gaming app on Fire TV devices

Microsoft and Amazon announced Thursday that they are partnering to bring the Xbox gaming app to two models of Fire… Read More

Amazon Prime Day set for July 16-17, as annual sales event falls into predictable schedule

Amazon seems to have figured out a consistent approach to scheduling Amazon Prime Day, with the 10th installment in the… Read More

Report: Amazon developing AI chatbot that would compete with ChatGPT and others

Amazon is developing its own consumer-focused AI chatbot that would compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and could be revealed later this… Read More

Amazon Labor Union partners with Teamsters to boost warehouse worker representation

Workers in the Amazon Labor Union voted Tuesday to join Teamsters, partnering with one of the largest U.S. unions in… Read More

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Cybersecurity in the age of AI: A conversation with Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: It was a big week for cybersecurity for Seattle’s cloud giants, albeit in very… Read More

Amazon CEO’s advice to computer science grads: take risks, keep learning, write your own story

In a speech peppered with mentions of his own sports failings and achievements, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy offered up some… Read More

Amazon adding $1.4B to its affordable housing fund in Seattle and other regions

Amazon is adding $1.4 billion to its Housing Equity Fund and has pledged to preserve and create an additional 14,000… Read More

Amazon shutting down warehouse near Seattle, will offer new roles to employees

Amazon is closing a warehouse in Tukwila, Wash., just south of Seattle. The company confirmed the closure after we spotted… Read More

Amazon’s departing cloud chief: Gen AI can be ‘one of the biggest opportunities AWS has ever seen’

Three years after returning to Amazon Web Services to lead the cloud giant through one of the most challenging and… Read More

Adam Selipsky, the exit interview: Amazon Web Services CEO on AI, competition, and the future

Adam Selipsky spoke with GeekWire this week at Amazon Web Services headquarters in Seattle in an interview prior to his… Read More

Amazon plans major expansion of drone deliveries after winning key FAA approval

Amazon says it will expand the range of its drone deliveries and the footprint of its drone network across the… Read More

Amazon rolls out AI-powered search features for Fire TV

Amazon is using natural language technology to give Fire TV users a new way to search for shows and movies.… Read More

Amazon makes Grubhub food delivery perk for Prime members an ongoing offer

Amazon is getting its grub on permanently. Extending a food delivery perk that was originally good for a year, Amazon… Read More

Amazon shareholder proposals on warehouse and union issues lead voting but fail to pass

Amazon shareholder resolutions related to warehouse working conditions and the company’s response to labor unions garnered the most support among… Read More

Amazon shareholders reject all 14 proposals on issues related to climate, AI, working conditions

Investors representing a majority of Amazon’s shares voted against all 14 outside proposals submitted for the annual meeting of shareholders… Read More

How Amazon’s new cloud chief Matt Garman will approach the big challenges ahead

Three executives from Amazon Web Services were meeting with a top CIA tech leader, trying to come up with a… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky steps down; senior exec Matt Garman named AWS CEO

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down from the role, three years after returning to the company to… Read More

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network sets up logistics site and training program

Amazon says it’s establishing a logistics facility in Everett, Wash., and partnering with a technical college in Kirkland, Wash., to… Read More

Amazon rolls out fleet of heavy-duty electric trucks to decarbonize more of its transportation network

Amazon is bulking up its fleet of electric vehicles beyond the delivery vans that many customers are accustomed to seeing… Read More

Podcast

Amazon vs. Trader Joe’s; Bill Gates still a force at Microsoft; Inside the Binance founder’s sentencing

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s efforts to compete with Trader Joe’s, and the related tactics revealed… Read More

Anthropic courts Claude AI users (and devs?) with billboard across the street from Meta in Seattle

Driving home from the Technology Alliance annual lunch in Seattle today, we were momentarily distracted by the big orange billboard… Read More

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy discusses unions on CNBC

Here’s where the Amazon CEO’s comments on unions crossed the line, according to NLRB judge

It was legal for Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to say that unionization would make it tougher for employees to have… Read More