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Amazon is a multinational technology company based in Seattle that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. Founder Jeff Bezos serves as the company’s executive chair, and Andy Jassy has held the CEO role since 2021.

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The Flaw With Strategy’s Stock-Selling Merry-Go-Round

By Martin Peers · Dec 1, 2025 5:00pm PST

You can always rely on Michael Saylor and the folks at Strategy to blaze new trails in corporate finance. Take Strategy’s announcement today that it had raised $1.44 billion by selling shares to—get this—establish a “USD reserve” to pay the $689 million it owes annually in dividends on its stock and interest on its debt. Usually companies try to... You can always rely on Michael Saylor and the folks at Strategy to blaze new trails in corporate...

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As AWS Preps New AI Models, Relations With Anthropic Get Complicated

By Kevin McLaughlin · Dec 1, 2025 6:00am PST

There’s a lot about Amazon’s efforts to put itself in the middle of the AI frenzy that hasn’t gone to plan over the past couple years. Its attempt to develop Amazon AI models that can compete with the most cutting-edge technologies from OpenAI, Google and others is still a work in progress. To buy time to improve Amazon’s own models, its cloud... There’s a lot about Amazon’s efforts to put itself in the middle of the AI frenzy that hasn’t...

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ByteDance Challenges Alibaba’s Reign in China’s AI Cloud Market

By Juro Osawa · Dec 1, 2025 4:00am PST

ByteDance is best known in the U.S. as the owner of TikTok. In China, the tech giant is also becoming known as a major force in cloud computing—so much so that it is now threatening Alibaba Group, long the undisputed king of cloud services in China. In one sign of the intensifying rivalry, executives at Alibaba have started to focus on the... ByteDance is best known in the U.S. as the owner of TikTok. In China, the tech giant is also...

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Amazon Tests Ultrafast Delivery Offering

By Ann Gehan · Dec 1, 2025 1:01pm PST

Amazon is testing a new ultrafast delivery offering for groceries and other daily essentials in major urban areas in the U.S., a critical test of the e-commerce giant’s ambitions to sell more daily staples to consumers and supercharge its grocery business. In recent months, Amazon has approached large consumer packaged goods brands to ask them... Amazon is testing a new ultrafast delivery offering for groceries and other daily essentials in...

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Amazon’s AI Crackdown Hits More AI Search Startups

By Ann Gehan · Nov 28, 2025 6:00am PST · 2 comments

Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year, should be a big business event for AI-powered shopping search startup Dupe. People looking for a bargain can use Dupe to search for items across lots of shopping sites—including Amazon—either by typing in phrases to describe what they want or uploading a photo. Dupe says... Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year, should be a big business event for...

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Perplexity Takes On Amazon

By Martin Peers · Nov 4, 2025 5:00pm PST

Cue the violins. Perplexity on Tuesday accused Amazon of bullying it by demanding that the AI startup no longer allow its users to send their AI assistants to Amazon to buy stuff. The startup, which is an expert at public relations theatrics, published a long blog post entitled “Bullying Is Not Innovation,” in which it claimed to be “fighting... Cue the violins. Perplexity on Tuesday accused Amazon of bullying it by demanding that the AI...