Once a modest online seller of books, Amazon is now one of the largest companies in the world, and its former CEO, Jeff Bezos, is the world’s most wealthy person. We track developments, both of Bezos and Amazon, its growth as a video producer, the popular Prime service, as well as its own hardware, which includes the Amazon Kindle e-reader, Amazon Kindle Fire tablets, and Amazon Fire TV streaming boxes.
Rollout of Amazon’s Fire TV OS redesignannounced at CES begins today for US customers. The update hits the Fire TV Stick 4K Plus, 4K Max (2nd gen), and Omni mini-LED TVs first, expanding to other products later.
The security camera maker’s Search Party feature, advertised during the Super Bowl, has sparked a surveillance backlash.
AfterRing announced that it had canceled integration with Flock Safety, the law enforcement technology company criticized forconnections to ICE (a claim it denies) has releasedit’s own statement andblog post:
Over the past several months, Flock and Ring explored whether their respective platforms could responsibly complement one another in support of public safety. Throughout those discussions, Flock engaged extensively with customers, public officials, and community stakeholders to understand expectations around accountability, transparency, and lawful use.
Based on that engagement, Flock and Ring have chosen to cancel the planned integration.
Ring’s Super Bowl adfocused on how its cameras could be networked to find a missing dog, but for a lot of people, it highlighted the surveillance power hiding in those devices. Now Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has sent a letter to Amazon saying, “Get this creepy technology away from our homes.”
You canread it in full here, but here’s a snippet:
TheSearch Party ad showedJamie Siminoff’s vision of what connected cameras can do, and it seems to suggest they willonly use that power to find lost dogs.
Amazon’s drones have had a…let’ssay,rockyhistory. On Wednesday, onehit the side of a building in Richardson, Texas, before falling to the ground in smoke. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, and damage to the building wasminimal, according to Amazon.
Hemsworth’s latest action scene isn’t in anAvengers movie, buta stand-off with Amazon’s AI assistant, which he fears is planning elaborate ways to kill him. Maybe Ultron is still fresh in theThor actor’s mind. It’s far from the only ad for AIin this year’s Super Bowl.
CEO Andy Jassy told investors that the investment will go toward accomodating the “very high demand” for AI workloads on AWS. Amazon reported earning $213.39 billion in the last quarter of 2025, with AWS making up $35.58 billion.
WhileTop Gear has spent years trying to replace Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond with mainstream celebrities, Amazon is instead appeasing British broadcasting execs’ obsession with online content creators. TheGrand Tour season 7 presenters areviral trainspotter Francis Bourgeois, alongside James Engelsman and Thomas Holland, who run theThrottle House YouTube channel.
AtNiemenLab, Laura Hazard Owen shows how Jeff Bezos’ statements have changed sincepurchasing it in 2013. Fromcuriosity at the start and “genuine” but corny bits like#democracydiesindarkness, to theabandoned endorsement of Kamala Harris in 2024 and last year’scancellation-drivingchanges.
Today,sweeping layoffs of 300-plus sliced its sports desk, international reporters, tech reporters (including its Amazon reporter), and others. Former EICMarty Baron called it one of “the darkest days in the history of one of the world’s greatest news organizations.”
The partnership will allow AT&T touse Amazon Leo — the ecommerce giant’s low Earth orbit satellite network — to deliver fixed broadband services to businesses. Amazon launched itsgigabit-speed Leo Ultra antenna last November, but it’s only available for commercial use for now.
Ahead of the finale forFallout season 2 next week, Amazon has started dropping episodes of the first seasonon YouTube so you can get a taste of the post-apocalyptic series for free. That finale, meanwhile, will be available a little early,streaming at 9PM ET on February 3rd.
Amazon announced in October that it would beditching MMOs and cranking out party games, and now Hartmann is departing,Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports. We spoke with Hartmannin 2021 about Amazon’s gaming strategy at the time;things have changed since then.
Theclosure of its physical Amazon Go and Fresh stores also bringsan end to the Amazon One palm ID service by June 3rd for retail locations, includingover 500 Whole Foods stores, with all biometric data deleted. Amazon One will continue to function at healthcare facilities “until further notice.”
Thepreviously-rumored cuts followan accidental calendar invite sent last night. They come after14,000 corporate jobs were cut in October, attributed partially to advances in AI. Thislatest round of layoffs is less than 5 percent of Amazon’s 350,000 corporate workforce.
We’ve been working to strengthen our organization by reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy. While many teams finalized their organizational changes in October, other teams did not complete that work until now.
If you’re wondering what kind of access agold-and-Gorilla-Glass statue, a$1 million donation, andendlessfawning buys you, well, it gets aspecial advanced screening of a state-sanctionedpropaganda documentary film about the First Lady. Okay, it buysmore than that, this is just a nice bonus.
They could start as early as Tuesday,Reuters reports. The cuts would follow Amazon laying off 14,000 corporate jobslast October.
Thenew trailer for Amazon MGM’s live-actionMasters of the Universefilm starring Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man and Jared Leto as Skeletor raises a few questions, like, why does this exist? Who is it for? Will anyone actually see the movie when it hits theaters on June 5th?
