Amazon News & Updates
Last updated October 25, 2026
Amazon India expands health and insurance coverage to 90,000 delivery associates with hospitalization and accident benefits
Amazon launches 30-minute “Amazon Now” delivery service across dozens of U.S. cities to compete with Instacart, DoorDash, and Walmart
Amazon employees reportedly inflate AI token counts on trivial tasks to climb internal “tokenmaxxing” usage leaderboards
Amazon opens its global logistics network to all businesses and upsets the entire supply chain market
#277 -WTO is deadlocked, Amazon opens its supply chain, & OpenAI launches an ads manager
AWS launches Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments in preview, built with Coinbase and Stripe to let AI agents transact autonomously
Microsoft executives in 2018 doubted OpenAI’s AI breakthroughs but feared losing the lab to Amazon, court emails reveal
Amazon launches first UK drone delivery service in Darlington with packages under 5 lbs delivered within a 7.5-mile radius
Prime Video integrates Amazon MX Player to create India’s largest streaming destination with free and paid content
Amazon plans to invest more than €15B in France over three years, creating more than 7,000 permanent jobs by 2028
Amazon Business launches same-day delivery of fresh groceries to business customers in more than 2,300 U.S. cities
Vori raises $22M Series B to help independent grocers compete with Walmart and Amazon with payments, inventory, and pricing
Amazon launches Amazon Supply Chain Services to open its logistics network to all businesses
Amazon expands built-in price history feature to show product prices across the past 365 days
Pentagon inks AI procurement deals with AWS, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX and Reflection AI, but not Anthropic
Anthropic stake markups drove $28.7B of Alphabet profit and $16.8B of Amazon’s last quarter
Amazon’s new AI podcast feature shilling products draws ridicule for hyping diaper rash cream and fake dog poop
Amazon and Meta to lobby India’s payments body over Google Pay and PhonePe dominance of UPI network
Amazon discusses “Apprentice” reboot for Prime Video with Donald Trump Jr. floated as potential host
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