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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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Amazon’s Airplanes Move Cargo for U.S. Postal Service

By Paris Martineau · Jun 15, 2021 8:00am PDT
Over the past several years, Amazon has dramatically expanded its fleet of aircraft to help it ship Amazon orders to customers faster. The growth has been so dramatic that it has fueled speculation Amazon would eventually begin flying cargo from other companies, not just Amazon packages, on its jets, whose tail fins are emblazoned with its... Over the past several years, Amazon has dramatically expanded its fleet of aircraft to help it...
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy at a conference in March. Photo by Bloomberg
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Demand Soaring for Amazon AI Services? Not So Fast

By Kevin McLaughlin and Amir Efrati · Apr 5, 2019 6:32am PDT · 2 comments
Big cloud computing providers have said customers are clamoring for their artificial intelligence services, which help companies with everything from translating text into speech to automatically recognizing images to fraud detection. Just this week, an investment analyst raised his share price target for Amazon, the dominant player in cloud... Big cloud computing providers have said customers are clamoring for their artificial intelligence...
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Amazon’s AI Shopping Overhaul

By Martin Peers · May 13, 2026 5:00pm PDT · 1 comment
Remember Bard? It was the original name of Google’s AI chatbot, but the Gemini brand long ago replaced it. Just as you’ve likely forgotten that history, you’re not likely to remember Rufus in 12 months’ time, either. Rufus, the name of Amazon’s AI-powered shopping chatbot, got tossed on Wednesday and replaced with Amazon’s well-established Alexa... Remember Bard? It was the original name of Google’s AI chatbot, but the Gemini brand long ago...
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Apple’s CEO Switch; Amazon’s AI Hedge

By Martin Peers · Apr 20, 2026 5:00pm PDT
Happy talk. That’s what you get when CEOs pass the baton, and so it was with Apple’s long-anticipated announcement that Tim Cook would give up the top job, effective in September. “I love Apple with all of my being,” Cook said in the announcement (he’s sticking around as executive chair). “I am filled with optimism about what we can achieve in... Happy talk. That’s what you get when CEOs pass the baton, and so it was with Apple’s...
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Amazon’s AI Chat Ads Yield Data but Few Sales

By Catherine Perloff · Apr 1, 2026 6:02am PDT
The early batch of ads running on OpenAI’s ChatGPT has drawn a lot of attention in recent weeks. But marketers have also been trying out another new form of conversational ads offered by an existing advertising heavyweight: Amazon. Even there, marketers are only starting to get a read on how much traction these ads are getting. For Paladone, an... The early batch of ads running on OpenAI’s ChatGPT has drawn a lot of attention in recent weeks....