Amazon News & Updates
Last updated October 23, 2026
Amazon takes food market share from supermarkets as its sales of fresh seafood, produce, and dairy jump after same-day expansion
3M gives Amazon warrants for up to 3.2M shares tied to $6B in purchases of its optical connectors and AI data center gear
Zalando hires former Amazon and Uber Freight executive Tom Christenson to run its B2B unit spanning Zeos, Tradebyte and Scayle
Walmart launches Agent Gateway so AI agents can shop for customers, while Amazon keeps blocking agents from buying on its site
Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 holiday workers, up 20% from last year, as overall seasonal retail hiring hits a low
Google open-sources TorchTPU so PyTorch AI apps can move onto its TPU chips without a rewrite, a day after Amazon’s TorchNeuron
Amazon releases TorchNeuron to move PyTorch AI apps onto its Trainium chips with one config change, taking aim at Nvidia’s CUDA
Amazon’s AI buildout has left it free cash flow negative for years to come, AWS executives said in an internal recorded meeting
Google search clicks cost 4% more in Q3 after a year of flat prices that followed Amazon’s Shopping ad exit, per Tinuiti
Amazon plans to invest €16B in Germany in 2027, with €4.8B of it going to expand its AWS Frankfurt cloud and AI region
Walmart bundles Walmart+ and Sam’s Club Plus into one $120 membership, undercutting Amazon Prime and Costco’s top tier
Heineken and Amazon pilot Pubscription, a Fire TV app in the UK that lists pubs by genre and gives users a free weekly beer
Amazon launches two Bee wearables that turn your conversations into summaries, and later, personalized ads
#300 – Universal Cart, Amazon’s listening, & Shopify welcomes all AI agents
Elon Musk floats starting an Amazon competitor after an X user says Amazon is blocking Grok bots from placing orders
Amazon plans to double its robotic arms this year as a study ties its robot warehouses to fewer severe but more strain injuries
Amazon launches Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse AI wearables that listen to conversations and can feed shopping recommendations
Amazon recalls nearly 113,000 bottles of its Basic Care extra strength acetaminophen after shoppers report discolored pills
Billion Dollar Boy Group acquires Creator Authority, a B2B creator marketing agency working with Amazon, Adobe, IBM, and HubSpot
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