AWS says almost 90% of Amazon’s early AI agent prototypes never shipped
AWS says almost 90% of Amazon’s early AI agent prototypes never shipped

Almost 90% of the AI agent prototypes Amazon teams built two years ago never reached production, AWS vice president of agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian said. Amazon was then starting to invest heavily in agents. Sivasubramanian spoke on Wednesday at Hu…

Amazon to invest $3bn in Indian quick commerce by 2030, Reuters reports
Amazon to invest $3bn in Indian quick commerce by 2030, Reuters reports

Amazon will spend $3bn to grow its quick-commerce business in India by 2030, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing two people who know the plans directly. Quick commerce is the term for app orders that reach shoppers within minutes. Amazon declined to c…

If Amazon doesn’t know how to eliminate carbon emissions, then who does?

Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world. How much responsibility does it have to meet its net zero pledge?

Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick
Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick

“Our vision was that they would never have to log into Seller Central. We would just bring it to them where they work,” Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon’s vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, told GeekWire. Amazon announced on Wednesda…

AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance
AWS becomes the first cloud provider cleared for NATO Restricted work across the alliance

Amazon Web Services has become the first cloud service provider to gain approval to handle NATO-restricted information in all of the alliance’s member states, and the path to this approval went not through NATO’s own offices but through Madrid. AWS has…

Amazon wants to help the Colorado River, but we still don’t know how much water the company uses 
Amazon wants to help the Colorado River, but we still don’t know how much water the company uses 

Amazon plans to spend $20 million on water conservation projects along the Colorado River, a crucial but dwindling water supply for 40 million people in the Western US. The initiative comes as Amazon and other tech companies face mounting scrutiny over how much water their data centers use. Amazon has a goal of becoming water […]

Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com

Muse isn’t welcome as a shopper anymore.

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse and accuses Perplexity of misleading a court
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse and accuses Perplexity of misleading a court

Amazon fought AI shopping agents on two fronts on Monday. It blocked Muse, Meta’s new AI assistant, from Amazon.com. It also filed an amended complaint against Perplexity, accusing the company of misleading a federal appeals court. The block came first…

Amazon puts another $1.9bn into its delivery partner programme for 2027
Amazon puts another $1.9bn into its delivery partner programme for 2027

“Specifics will vary by DSP and geography, as each DSP determines how best to invest in their business and teams,” Amazon wrote on Monday. That sentence sits four lines below the headline figure, which is that drivers will earn a national average of ne…

Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent

Meta’s Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that “continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon’s Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed.” According to GeekWire, Meta didn’t notify Amazon that […]