Amazon News & Updates
Last updated October 25, 2026
Amazon is sued in California after surveillance video shows a delivery driver punching a 71-year-old man over a parking spot
Amazon joins the YouTube Shopping affiliate program, letting US creators tag its products in Shorts, videos, and livestreams
A California judge tentatively denies Bonta’s request to bar Amazon from price fixing ahead of the state’s January trial
Amazon asks FBA sellers to bid per unit for eligibility in its two-hour sub-Same Day delivery network in 2,300 metro areas
Amazon wins preliminary approval of a $309.5M settlement with shoppers who returned items and were never refunded for them
Amazon expects Canadian package volume to grow more than 40% by 2029 and is expanding fulfillment there through the tariff war
Amazon delivery contractor Brittany Hudson gets 16 years for a fake-vendor scheme that moved $9.4M out of the company in 2022
Amazon will close Mechanical Turk on September 30, ending the microtask platform Bezos called artificial artificial intelligence
Amazon buys DuckLabs and its DuckDB team, who say a bootstrapped company had become the bottleneck for the open-source database
DTC brands are shifting to Amazon as Google’s AI results cut organic traffic and Meta and Google ad prices keep climbing
Amazon’s Zoox starts charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas under NHTSA caps on fleet size, road speed, and the weather
Amazon is designing fully automated delivery stations in a project called Tetromino, with $530 million planned through 2029
Amazon to expand drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns this year
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Twitch and Amazon face a class action over training Amazon’s AI on streams that every channel was opted into by default
Elon Musk renews his attack on Delta for picking Amazon Leo over Starlink, a service that won’t reach its planes until 2028
Amazon asks 11 Ninth Circuit judges to rehear its Perplexity case after the panel ruled users, not Comet, access its site
Amazon Prime Air drone drops a customer’s package into a backyard hot tub outside Houston in a video spreading on social media
Amazon raises prices overnight on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero devices, blaming higher memory and storage component costs
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