Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty item is confirmed!” an email about my retainer cleaning tablets read. Shoppers have posted other iterations of the redacted emails as well: “Ordered: […]

Amazon’s $5m campaign against Mamdani’s delivery bill is the best argument for passing it
Amazon’s $5m campaign against Mamdani’s delivery bill is the best argument for passing it

Amazon is spending $5M to kill a single New York City bill, and the size of that cheque is the most honest story the company has said about the fight. The measure is the Delivery Protection Act, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and carrying a majority of…

Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.
Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.

Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. Permits allow the p…

Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.

An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country

To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to The New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, Texas, has received significant investment from Amazon and, […]

OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents
OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents

The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a single agent extension work across competing products…

Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10
Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10

Amazon’s Zoox will begin charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10, the company confirmed on Wednesday. Fares will be calculated from a base price plus distance and time, with destination fees for trips to and from the airport. Zoox said pr…

Ring upgraded its peephole doorbell camera to 2K
Ring upgraded its peephole doorbell camera to 2K

Ring has debuted a new version of its smart doorbell camera that’s designed to be easily installed as a replacement for a door’s peephole without drilling or running wires. The Peephole Cam 2K is a replacement for the brand’s Door View Cam that first debuted in 2019 and, alongside a sleeker design, it features a […]

Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban
Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

An AI agent can shop on Amazon whether Amazon likes it or not. A US appeals court has overturned an injunction that barred Perplexity’s shopping agent from the retailer, handing an early win to the software that browses and buys on people’s behalf. The…

Jeff Bezos files to sell roughly $4 billion in Amazon shares after stock hits $3 trillion
Jeff Bezos files to sell roughly $4 billion in Amazon shares after stock hits $3 trillion

Jeff Bezos has filed to sell 15 million shares of Amazon common stock, a stake worth roughly four billion dollars based on the company’s closing price on Monday. The filing, a Form 144 submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosed that…