Industry The Web Amazon says USPS 'walked away at the eleventh hour' from delivery deal talks The fallout could not come at a worse time for a cash-strapped Postal Service By Rob Thubron, March 19, 2026, 7:46 AM 19 comments
AI Microsoft Microsoft is threatening to sue Amazon and OpenAI over a $50 billion cloud hosting deal Redmond believes the deal violates its exclusive Azure agreements with OpenAI By Kishalaya Kundu, March 18, 2026, 3:43 PM 7 comments
AI Industry Amazon's Jassy now sees AWS hitting $600 billion a year on AI tailwinds The CEO is doubling his prior forecast, betting aggressive infrastructure spending will unlock the next decade of cloud growth By Skye Jacobs, March 18, 2026, 10:23 AM
The Web Industry Amazon adds 1-hour and 3-hour delivery options, but convenience comes at a premium New paid delivery tiers are rolling out to more than 2,000 US cities and towns By Rob Thubron, March 17, 2026, 8:24 AM
Industry Electronics Amazon's latest round of layoffs hits its robotics unit The layoffs land weeks after Amazon shelved its Blue Jay delivery robot By Rob Thubron, March 5, 2026, 9:36 AM 9 comments
AI Industry OpenAI lands record $110 billion investment backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and SoftBank Sovereign funds and tech giants anchor historic AI capital raise By Skye Jacobs, March 1, 2026, 9:07 AM 14 comments
Industry Security Amazon's wishlist update could expose users' home addresses Amazon might want to reconsider By Alfonso Maruccia, February 26, 2026, 2:43 PM
Hardware Tech Culture PC builder orders one DDR5 kit, receives 10 worth $3,000 by mistake He plans to sell the extra kits below today's sky-high DDR5 prices By Rob Thubron, February 26, 2026, 9:36 AM 12 comments
The Web AI Amazon says AWS AI tools were involved in two outages, but calls it "coincidence" Engineers question the wisdom of granting autonomy to coding agents By Skye Jacobs, February 20, 2026, 9:06 AM 10 comments
Electronics Industry Amazon quietly cancels Blue Jay warehouse robot months after debut The company is redirecting its most advanced AI robotics project into a next-generation logistics system By Skye Jacobs, February 18, 2026, 8:29 AM
Hardware The Web Amazon sold 60% fewer CPUs than a year ago, pointing to a stalled PC refresh cycle "Obsolete" CPUs like the Ryzen 5800X and Ryzen 3600 are up YoY By Daniel Sims, February 14, 2026, 12:15 PM 32 comments
Hardware Industry Trump administration considers linking chip tariff exemptions to TSMC's US investment expansion TSMC's US bet may shield Amazon, Google, Microsoft from new chip tariffs By Skye Jacobs, February 10, 2026, 7:53 AM
AI Industry The new corporate alibi: AI is the go-to excuse for mass layoffs "AI washing" is reshaping how companies explain job cuts By Skye Jacobs, February 3, 2026, 12:45 AM 19 comments
Industry Amazon confirms 16,000 more layoffs, bringing total cuts since October to 30,000 CEO Andy Jassy previously said AI will reduce the need for some roles By Rob Thubron, January 28, 2026, 7:31 AM
The Web Tech Culture Stranger Things and NFL pushed streaming to record highs on Christmas Day More than half of US TV viewing moved to streaming on Christmas Day By Rob Thubron, January 22, 2026, 7:47 AM
Hardware The Web Nvidia RTX 5080 Amazon scam sees RTX 5060 Ti passed off as the $1,400 card The fake card was identified by its single 8-pin power connector By Rob Thubron, January 21, 2026, 6:16 AM
Tech Culture AI Data centers are now the fastest-growing part of US construction Amazon, Google, and Oracle continue to bankroll enormous projects despite inflation and tariffs By Skye Jacobs, January 20, 2026, 6:10 AM
Gaming Software "Games should never die": Rust dev offers $25M to save Amazon's MMO New World Amazon's big MMO experiment is coming to an end, unless... By Skye Jacobs, January 18, 2026, 2:29 PM 21 comments
AI The Web Wikipedia is now getting paid by Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and other AI companies The internet's largest free encyclopedia is adapting to the AI era By Skye Jacobs, January 16, 2026, 12:05 PM 29 comments
AI Industry Will AI frenzy give rise to the cloud PC? Jeff Bezos thinks so Local computing machines are going to become museum exhibits, Amazon boss said By Alfonso Maruccia, January 15, 2026, 9:56 AM 25 comments
Gaming Tech Culture Amazon casts Ragnarök veteran Ryan Hurst as Kratos in God of War show Hurst voiced Thor in God of War Ragnarök By Rob Thubron, January 15, 2026, 5:18 AM
AI Software Amazon Prime members are being auto-upgraded to Alexa+ whether they want it or not Alexa+ can be easily rolled back, though By Rob Thubron, January 13, 2026, 11:27 AM 14 comments
Software Amazon updates Fire TV with a cleaner UI, 20 app pins, and Alexa+ Following Google's lead By Rob Thubron, January 6, 2026, 7:13 AM
Hardware Industry The people building humanoid robots say the hype is running ahead of reality Humanoid robots can walk and run – doing useful work is another story By Skye Jacobs, December 29, 2025, 2:13 PM 8 comments
Hardware The Web AMD's 5-year-old Ryzen CPUs are popular again because RAM is too expensive The DDR5 crunch brings back the Ryzen 7 5800X, and even the Ryzen 5 3600 By Daniel Sims, December 26, 2025, 5:21 PM 17 comments