Amazon News & Updates
Last updated October 25, 2026
Amazon, Walmart, & Target announce their October sales events
Amazon to build 1,000+ same-day delivery facilities by 2031, according to leaked documents
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse from shopping on its marketplace, one week after launch, and everyone saw it coming
Amazon takes warrants for up to $340M of Generac stock in a backup generator deal that sends Generac shares up over 40%
Amazon Web Services says customer data is permanently lost in Bahrain and the UAE after Iranian strikes on its data centers
Amazon will pay expanded Prime refunds under a revised federal court order that raises the per-consumer cap from $51 to $200
Amazon launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi and Hinglish support, free for Prime members and ₹2,000 a month without it
Google Home opens to third-party AI agents like Claude and OpenClaw, beating Apple Home and Amazon Alexa to the feature
Amazon plans more than 1,000 same-day fulfillment sites by 2031 to move inventory within 10 miles of most Prime members
Amazon raises US operations starting pay to $20 an hour and adds employee grocery discounts at Whole Foods and Amazon.com
Amazon cuts the share of North American packages shipped in single-use plastic from 65% to 37% by switching to stretchy paper
Amazon sets Prime Big Deal Days for October 6-7 and lets Alexa for Shopping auto-buy deals once they hit a shopper’s price
Target schedules its Target Circle Deal Days for October 6 and 7, the same two days as Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale
Amazon adds on-demand short-form news clips to Prime Video, free to all US viewers whether or not they subscribe to Prime
Amazon suspends its use of cargo carrier 21 Air after the Miami crash of an Amazon-branded 767 killed five on the ground
Amazon employee dies after collapsing on the job at a Goodyear, Arizona warehouse, with the cause of death undetermined
Amazon workers on SNAP and Medicaid nearly tripled since 2020 while the company’s annual profit climbed to $77.7 billion
Amazon Prime Video lets you shop items from the exact scene you’re watching, but it’s missing one big thing
Amazon puts its advertisers in ChatGPT, but still not its catalog
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