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Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Seattle. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, the company operates the worlds largest online retailer, Amazon Web Services cloud platform, and a robotics-driven logistics network. Thro...
AWS Embeds Superblocks Vibe-Coding Inside Enterprise Private Clouds — Aug 8, 2026 — AWS and Superblocks have launched a multi-year collaboration letting enterprises deploy AI-assisted internal apps entirely inside their own AWS virtua...Amazon Breaks Ground On $48M Robotics Sorting Warehouse In Georgetown, Texas — Aug 8, 2026 — Amazon will break ground August 24, 2026 on a 248,687 sq ft robotics-equipped Sub Same Day sorting site in Georgetown, its fourth Austin-area warehous...Amazon Completes $50 Billion OpenAI Investment, Wires Final $35B in July SEC Filing — Aug 3, 2026 — Amazon disclosed in a July 31 SEC filing that it has wired the final $35 billion tranche of the $50 billion OpenAI stake announced in February — cemen...EU AI Act Enforcement Powers Over GPAI Providers Go Live August 2 — Aug 3, 2026 — The European Commission's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI providers activate August 2, 2026, unlocking fines of up to 3% of global turnover...TSMC Builds EMIB-Like Advanced Packaging With Kinsus To Ease CoWoS Chokehold — Jul 31, 2026 — Taiwan's TSMC has quietly begun engineering an EMIB-style embedded-bridge packaging platform with substrate maker Kinsus, admitting Intel's approach c...Amazon Q2 2026 Revenue Tops $200B As AWS Grows 37% — Jul 31, 2026 — Amazon crossed $200 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time as AWS accelerated to 37% growth, its fastest in 18 quarters, while a $53.4 billio...Zoox Wins First-Ever NHTSA Commercial Exemption For Purpose-Built Robotaxi — Jul 30, 2026 — The Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle developer becomes the first company allowed to charge riders in a car with no steering wheel or pedals, with an in...Amazon Preps $48M Robotics-Equipped Sorting Warehouse In Georgetown, Texas — Jul 24, 2026 — Amazon will break ground August 30 on a 248,687-square-foot robotics-equipped sorting warehouse in Georgetown, Texas, adding another automated node to...Ultra Robotics OP1 Hits 30% Order-Fill At Brooklyn 3PL Highline Commerce — Jul 24, 2026 — Brooklyn 3PL Highline Commerce says Ultra Robotics' wall-powered Operator OP1 fleet now fills up to 30% of client e-commerce orders 24/7 — the first c...Meta Poaches AWS Compute Chief Dave Brown To Anchor Meta Compute Data Center Push — Jul 20, 2026 — Meta is hiring Dave Brown, the departing AWS senior vice president who ran Amazon's EC2 and AI services business, to help lead its $125-$145 billion a...Zoox Recalls 105 Robotaxis After Vehicle Enters Emergency Smoke Scene — Jul 17, 2026 — Amazon-owned Zoox will recall all 105 of its autonomous robotaxis with a software update after a driverless vehicle entered a Las Vegas fire scene obs...Zoox Unveils Production-Intent Robotaxi Ahead Of 100-Per-Week Ramp In Hayward — Jul 17, 2026 — Amazon-owned Zoox has unveiled a production-intent robotaxi with cabin and exterior updates informed by 500,000 riders, targeting up to 100 vehicles p...Electrovaya Locks In Amazon Deal With Warrants For $280M In Battery Purchases — Jul 16, 2026 — Nasdaq- and TSX-listed Electrovaya signed a commercial agreement with Amazon on July 15 covering deployment of its Infinity Battery Technology in Amaz...Trase Lands $107M Seed to Push Agentic AI Into Regulated Industries — Jul 11, 2026 — Trase closed a $107M seed round led by ARCH Venture Partners to expand its agentic operating system for healthcare and defense, following a live deplo...Amazon Prime Air Lands in Baton Rouge, Louisiana's First Drone Delivery City — Jul 10, 2026 — Amazon Prime Air has switched on MK30 drone delivery in Baton Rouge, making Louisiana the ninth U.S. state to get automated Amazon drops as the networ...Amazon Confirms Omaha Prime Air Drone Delivery From Papillion Warehouse — Jul 9, 2026 — Amazon has confirmed Papillion, Nebraska as the next Prime Air launch market, teeing up MK30 drone deliveries within a 7-8 mile radius as the FAA's en...Amazon Leo Hits 396 Satellites, Green-Lights Commercial Broadband Service — Jul 5, 2026 — Amazon says its Leo satellite network has crossed the 396-spacecraft threshold needed to begin limited commercial internet service, opening a paid Sta...AWS Puts $1B Into Forward Deployed AI Engineers to Own the Agent Rollout — Jul 5, 2026 — Amazon Web Services launched a $1 billion Forward Deployed AI Engineers unit on June 30, sending engineers inside customer companies to build and hand...Microsoft Launches $2.5B Frontier Company to Embed AI Inside Clients — Jul 5, 2026 — Microsoft unveiled Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion, 6,000-person AI deployment unit that will embed engineers inside enterprises to build and run age...Claude Fable 5 Restored Worldwide After US Lifts Export Controls — Jul 4, 2026 — Anthropic's frontier model Claude Fable 5 returned to users worldwide on July 1 after the US Commerce Department lifted the emergency export controls...