Amazon introduced Alexa for Shopping, an e-commerce bot that can answer queries and take actions on behalf of users

Alexa for Shopping is an 'agentic AI assistant' for Amazon purchases

The full Amazon experience is available on Echo Show 15 and 21.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times (via Ars Technica): Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently

Amazon is rolling out Amazon Now across the U.S., giving users the ability to get what they need in half an hour.

Save $300 on Apple's high-end M5 14-inch MacBook Pro with 32GB RAM at Amazon and B&H today, bringing the price down to an all-time low of $1,799

Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.

Amazon is the latest hyperscaler where employees have been caught inflating AI token consumption to hit internal usage targets

Order it now, blink a couple of times, and it might already be at your doorstep.

Amazon has been gradually speeding up its delivery windows, after getting customers hooked on two-day and next-day shipping

May I finish?" Someone in the crowd yelled, "AI SUCKS!" Her speech begins around the hour and 15 minute mark in the UCF livestream. [...] Before the industrial revolution comment, Caulfield praised Jeff Bezos for his passion and use of Amazon as a "stepping stone" to his real dream: spaceflight

Tech companies have continued to announce layoffs tied to AI, including recent cuts from Amazon, Meta and Oracle.

Major American cloud companies with data centers in the Persian Gulf "are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables that an Iraqi telecom has strung alongside crude-oil pipelines," reports RestofWorld.org: The data centers serve customers in more than 190 countries, processing transactions, storing files, and running applications for businesses and individuals from Latin America to South Asia. When Iranian drones struck Amazon's facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on March 1, the effects spread across the region

This week Amazon opened up its parcel shipping, fulfillment, and distribution "to businesses of all types and sizes." Any business can now ship, store, and deliver "using the same supply chain that supports Amazon," according to Monday's announcement of "Amazon Supply Chain Services." The move sent shares of UPS and FedEx "tumbling" Monday writes GeekWire

An anonymous reader shared this report from Futurism: In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors

Welcome to this week's recap. The Sony Xperia 1 VIII was prematurely listed on Amazon, revealing a very hefty price tag - 1,868.99 in Germany, 1,728 in the UK

We previously saw the Sony Xperia 1 VIII getting listed on Amazon ahead of schedule

A "thermal event" caused a loss of power at a data center in Virginia, leading to an AWS outage.

Beginning on May 7, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has had ripple effects throughout the internet.

As of May 8, Boox launched its new remote, the Tappy

Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50 this September, but you can still snag it for $449.99 at retailers like Amazon, Target, and Best Buy if you move fast.

AWS knows AI agents will be making payments for us in the future and the first step starts with agent-to-agent micropayments

Precise LinkedIn targeting via job title, industry and more is coming to B2B marketers within Amazon DSP

Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAIbut wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.

joshuark shares a report from Linux Magazine: Microsoft has issued a warning that a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 has been found in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability in question is tagged CVE-2026-31431 and, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), "This Linux Kernel Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres Vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise." The distributions affected are Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Amazon Linux

Prime members can also claim a code for Mafia II: Definitive Edition.

The tech giant says it hopes to slowly expand the service as the demand for ultra-fast deliveries grows.

Participate in our audio survey to potentially grant a Mashable Readers' Choice Award to the headphones/earbuds, speakers, and soundbars you use.

The Sony Xperia 1 VIII suffered a mild leak last month, revealing quite a bit of its design. More recently its gotten a more substantial leak, and seemingly from a relatively official source – listings on Amazon UK and Germany

Get the lowest price ever on AirPods Max 2 over-ear headphones. AirPods Max 2 are now $40 off at Amazon and Walmart , as both retailers compete for your business this week

The creator of camelcamelcamel, a free Amazon price tracker, has launched an identical tool for Walmart products called camelmart.

Xperia 1 VIII leaks in early listing, reveals shocking price tag.

HBO Max is no longer supported on older Fire TV devices that run version 5 of the Fire OS

The upcoming Sony Xperia 1 VIII has just been mistakenly listed by Amazon in both Germany and the UK

A sweeping Pentagon push to integrate AI into military systems includes nearly every major tech player except Anthropic, exposing a growing divide over how far such technology should go

Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper Amazon Web Services has let AI agents loose in its cloudy WorkSpaces virtual PCs.

Additionally, the 512GB upgrade is $1,200. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra $300 off Read our review 12/256GB - $1,000 at Amazon US 12/512GB - $1,200 at Amazon US For comparison, if you bought the S26 Ultra on Saturday, you would have paid $1,100 or $1,300, respectively

Amazon Photos just got a big redesign and natural language search.

This is the upgraded smart assistant's debut on a non-Amazon device.

The Xteink X4 ereader is the latest social media tech obsession, and it's emerging as a serious Kindle rival

Hackers are stealing access to legitimate AWS tools and using them to launch phishing campaigns

Today only, grab a $250 discount on Apple's M5 Pro 14-inch MacBook Pro, matching the lowest price on record for the 2026 laptop. Grab the lowest price on record today only for the M5 Pro MacBook Pro - Image credit: Apple Apple Authorized Reseller B&H Photo is beating Amazon's price today with a flash deal on the standard 2026 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 Pro chip, dropping the price to $1,949

Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) is Amazon's answer to FedEx, UPS shipping is now open to all

Surfshark has just launched a dedicated app for Amazon's newest Fire TV sticks running the Vega operating system, delivering faster streaming and robust protection against hackers

Amazon melancarkan Amazon Supply Chain Services (SCS), membuka keseluruhan rangkaian logistiknya kepada manamana perniagaan, termasuk yang tidak menjual produk mereka di laman Amazon

CEO Andy Jassy said Amazons massive AI spending reflects a once-in-a-generation opportunity and will ultimately reward investors.

That amount nets you the device with 128GB of storage. The problem with that pricing is that the same version of the device can currently be had at Amazon for just $589.90

The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.

Figuring out exactly which ones fall into that growing category is becoming more difficult just as the industry is starting to take this issue seriously. In only the past month or so, Amazon launched a feature that explains a product by generating a quasi-podcast, complete with co-hosts talking to each other and taking questions from users

GameStop has made an unsolicited $56 billion cash-and-stock offer to buy eBay (paywalled; alternative source), with CEO Ryan Cohen arguing he can turn the marketplace into a far larger Amazon competitor

The first to sign up are P&G, 3M, Lands' End and American Eagle.

Amazon once tried to pressure Nintendo to break the law, says former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aim

Amazon says that it will take months before it can return its Bahrain and UAE data center back to full operational status

"Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley's AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less," writes the Washington Post: Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon's cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East

The odd one out is Anthropic, which remains excluded after being labeled a supply-chain risk amid a dispute over military-use guardrails. Reuters reports: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), several of which already work with the Pentagon, will be integrated into its secret and top-secret network environments, providing more military access to their products for use on sensitive topics, the Pentagon said in a statement

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.

Apple retailers are embroiled in a MacBook Pro price war this weekend, offering a $200 discount on the 1TB M5 14-inch model with an upgrade to 24GB of memory. Save $200 on an upgraded M5 MacBook Pro 14-inch this weekend - Image credit: Apple You can pick up the 1TB 14-inch MacBook Pro with 24GB of RAM for $1,699 at Amazon and B&H Photo

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta plan to spend a combined $725 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, a 77% increase over last year's record $410 billion

They join Google, OpenAI and xAI.

Two launches this week delivered 61 more satellites to orbit for the Amazon Leo broadband network.

This marks Amazon's first streaming deal with a college team.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reported better-than-expected first-quarter cloud results, signaling an acceleration of AI demand

It's an expansion of the mobile app's "Hear the Highlights" feature.

AWS reports its best growth rate in 15 quarters, and at 28%, it's propping up total Amazon revenue by quite a margin

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta collectively plan to spend $725 billion on capex in 2026, up 77% from last year's record $410 billion

The stock's April rally set a high bar heading into Wednesday's print

The Trainium train keeps a-rollin' Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ..

The OnePlus Nord CE6 will have its first sale on May 8 at 12 PM local time, while the Nord CE6 Lite will become available on May 12 at 12 PM. Both of them will be offered through Amazon India, the official OnePlus India website, OnePlus stores, and other offline retail outlets in the country

Revenue in Amazon's cloud computing segment expanded 28% year over year, topping analysts' estimates.

Amazon Web Services now accounts for over 20% of its parent company's total revenue.

While OpenAI and Microsoft remain partners, the AI company has been rapidly pushing into Amazon's world

AWS is already a big investor in OpenAI Amazon Bedrock now gets access to more models after Microsoft loses exclusivity

No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers Interview Steve Tarcza, director of Amazon Stores, says his team StoreGen exists to help the retail giant's developers move faster and cut friction

Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft report quarterly results after the bell, and OpenAI is likely to be a big topic across the board

Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you OpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.

Sehari selepas tamatnya perjanjian eksklusif OpenAI bersama Microsoft, pagi ini AWS telah mengumumkan ketersediaan OpenAI menerusi perkhidmatan Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents

OpenAI's generative AI models are becoming available on Amazon's cloud a day after the AI company revamped its relationship with longtime partner Microsoft

Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market Amazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.