Amazon launches same-day delivery of meat, eggs, produce in more than 1,000 cities
cnbc - The service is launching in more than 1,000 U.S. cities and towns, with plans to expand to at least 2,300 locations by the end of this year.
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Amazon Hits 100-Satellite Milestone After SpaceX Kuiper Launch
Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Amazon's Project Kuiper reaches 100 satellites after fourth launch aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 as it races to deliver global low-latency internet.The post Amazon Hits 100-Satellite Milestone After SpaceX Kuiper Launch first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
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McDonald's Pokémon Card Giveaway Ends Early Amid Restaurant Chaos, Scalping and Widespread Food Waste, as Fans Buy Dozens of Happy Meals Only to Dump Uneaten Burgers
Tom Phillips / ign - McDonald's has announced the early end of a Happy Meal Pokémon card promotion in Japan, after the chain was swamped by fans buying dozens of burgers to extract the packs found within them.
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OpenAI Releases Lower-Cost Models to Rival DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral
Jon Swartz / techstrong - OpenAI on Tuesday released two text-only models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, as lower-cost options for developers, researchers, companies, and governments. The open-weight language models, the first from OpenAI since it introduced GPT-2 in 2019, comes a…
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Amazon shuts down Wondery podcast studio, cuts 110 jobs
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - Despite securing big names in the business, the company is now shifting its strategy in an effort to better compete with rivals like Spotify and YouTube.
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Amazon CEO wants to put ads in your Alexa+ conversations
Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - Amazon is spending a fortune on AI infrastructure and CEO Andy Jassy sees a new way to pay for it with Alexa+.
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Amazon Posts Higher Sales, Profit
Sean McLain / wsj - The sales and profit results beat Wall Street’s expectations.
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Amazon to Pay NYT Up to $25 Million for AI Licensing
PYMNTS / pymnts - Amazon’s artificial intelligence licensing deal with The New York Times reportedly carries an eight-figure annual price tag. [contact-form-7] The tech giant will pay the news company between $20 million and $25 million per year for content to train its AI…
Back to Top / Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 11234 / 3 stories in 7 months
Apple's M4 MacBook Pro Gets New All-Time Low Prices on Amazon
Mitchel Broussard / macrumors - Today we're tracking a collection of discounts on Apple's M4 MacBook Pro at Amazon, including as much as $437 off select models of the computer. Most of these deals represent new all-time low prices on each model, and Best Buy is matching them in many cas…
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Apple's M4 Macbook Air plunges to its lowest ever price in the ultimate back to school deal — Amazon's $799 price tag trounces Apple's official deal program
tomshardware - Grab an M4 MacBook Air for just $799, or a 15-inch model for $999
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Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands
Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. [...]
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Fallout Director Is Producing A Wolfenstein Series For Amazon
Zack Zwiezen / kotaku - Nazis, watch out. Wolfenstein is coming to the small screen with some help from the same people (and the same production company) behind Amazon’s hit live-action adaptation of Fallout. Read more...
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New on Prime Video Canada: August 2025
Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Amazon has revealed all of the movies and shows coming to its Prime Video service in Canada in August 2025. Highlights include The Pickup starring Eddie Murphy, The Upload Season 4 starring Toronto’s Robbie Amell and The Terminal List: Dark Wolf starring …
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Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped
Tim Anderson / theregister - Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS 'security theater' The official Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was compromised to include a prompt to wipe the user's home directory and delete all their AWS resources.…
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Amazon is launching a cheaper color Kindle
Jay Peters / theverge - After launching the Kindle Colorsoft last year — its first Kindle with a color screen — Amazon is adding two new iterations of the e-reader to its lineup today: a cheaper Colorsoft with 16GB of storage for $249.99 and a kids-focused bundle for $269.99. Th…
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AWS closes China AI research center, citing boilerplate 'business priorities'
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Nvidia's Jensen Huang just had a win with his argument that the world needs China’s AI brains, now this Amazon Web Services has closed its AI lab in Shanghai, China.…
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Amazon Acquires AI Wearable Startup Bee
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Amazon acquires Bee, the startup behind an 'always-on' listening AI wearable, intensifying the AI hardware race and raising significant privacy questions.The post Amazon Acquires AI Wearable Startup Bee appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Amazon's big bet on AI agents comes into focus at AWS Summit
techspot - At AWS Summit, Amazon's cloud computing division addressed these challenges head-on, unveiling a broad range of offerings that include development and deployment tools for agents, as well as a new marketplace where customers can purchase ready-made agent …
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Amazon AWS Cloud Unit Suffers Major Job Cuts Amid Layoffs
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit has reportedly laid off hundreds of employees as part of an ongoing restructuring effort. The significant reduction in workforce reflects broader industry challenges and signals a strategic recalibration in response to a rapidly evolving digital landscape, as companies tighten resources and reexamine operational priorities.
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AWS debuts Bedrock AgentCore to move AI agents from pilot to production
Chad Wilson / siliconangle - Amazon Web Services Inc. is accelerating the shift from artificial intelligence pilots to production with the launch of AWS Bedrock AgentCore, a new runtime built to deploy AI agents at scale with memory, orchestration and enterprise-grade security. As en…
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