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Amazon setzt mehr um als erwartet, doch die Prognose lässt Anleger zweifeln
Amazon wächst wieder stärker als zuvor, doch die Börse erwartet mehr Profite aus den KI-Investitionen. Da auch der Ausblick verhalten ist, fällt die Aktie.

Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 17.5% YoY to $30.9B, vs. $30.8B est., and AWS operating income up 8.8% YoY to $10.2B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/amazon-amzn-q2-earnings-report-2025.html

Amazon issues gloomy profit outlook
The earnings report gives investors a fresh look at how Amazon is navigating tariff-related uncertainty.

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 410236 nodes and 3356824 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

Amazon reports Q2 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $15.7B, vs. $14.9B est., and subscription services revenue up 12% YoY to $12.2B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/amazon-amzn-q2-earnings-report-2025.html

Amazon issues gloomy profit outlook
The earnings report gives investors a fresh look at how Amazon is navigating tariff-related uncertainty.

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/26/tippping-points-amazon-rainforest-climate-scie…

Amazon rarely publicly discusses take down or incident response actions, which I'd guess makes this noteworthy:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-disrupts-watering-hole-campaign-by-russias-apt29/

Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 | Amazon Web Services
Amazon’s threat intelligence team has identified and disrupted a watering hole campaign conducted by APT29 (also known as Midnight Blizzard), a threat actor associated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Our investigation uncovered an opportunistic watering hole campaign using compromised websites to redirect visitors to malicious infrastructure designed to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices […]

Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fable-amaz

Amazon-backed Showrunner courts Hollywood for AI streamer: pitch deck
Fable Studio got Amazon backing for its AI streaming platform, Showrunner. Here's its pitch to Hollywood studios.

Amazon Recalls Amazon Basics Premium Foam Eurotop Mattresses Due to Fire Hazard; Violates Federal Standard for Mattress Flammability; Sold on Amazon
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wbmw5r5a2j7txv72ggne2uoe/post/3lvbfdgmydc2x

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fable-amaz

Amazon-backed Showrunner courts Hollywood for AI streamer: pitch deck
Fable Studio got Amazon backing for its AI streaming platform, Showrunner. Here's its pitch to Hollywood studios.

Eventually, AI-generated audiences will purchase NFTs offered by AI-generated programs using AI-generated money...
Amazon Invests In 'Netflix of AI' Start-Up Fable, Which Lets You Make Your Own TV Shows
https://slashdot.org/story/444998

Amazon Invests In 'Netflix of AI' Start-Up Fable, Which Lets You Make Your Own TV Shows - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Variety: Edward Saatchi isn't totally sure people will flock to Showrunner, the new AI-generated TV show service his company is launching publicly this week. But he has a vote of confidence from Amazon, which has invested in Fable, Saatchi's San Francisco-bas...

Neue Filme und Serien bei Netflix, Disney und Amazon Prime im September 2025
Disney zeigt im September die Realverfilmung von "Lilo & Stitch". Bei Netflix startet die Serie "Black Rabbit" und Bei Amazon Prime Video läuft "Shot Caller".

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/in-ecuadors-amazon-big-oil-exploits-indigenous-communities-in-the-absence-of-the-state/

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state
This story is published in partnership with the Ecuadorian independent media outlet GK. Sitting in a small gray motorboat, Rosa Aranda dips her fingers in the Villano River as she lists the communities she plans to visit over the coming days: Piwiri, Kamunwi and Yutzuyaku. Aranda, 45 years old with long, thick black hair, is […]

Anybody learning drums on something like this?

#UPS: Your order is 3 states away as of 1 hour ago.
#Amazon: Your order will be delivered today.
Me: 😐

Die neue Nintendo Switch2 ist jetzt seit 3 Wochen auf dem Markt und obwohl sie in der Zeit die erfolgreichste Konsole aller Zeiten ist und inzwischen vermutlich über 5 Mio. verkauft wurden ist sie jetzt lieferbar. Amazon würde sie Morgen verschicken und Mediamarkt bietet einen Lieferung bis zum 08.07.2025 an. Das ist für mich als Logistiker echt beindruckend und sowas schafft sonst nur Apple!
#nintendo

You mean to tell me the folks carrying out the genocide of the indigenous Brown people whose land they occupy are racist? No, never!
#israel #racism #ChrisSmalls

Farhad (@faab64@freefree.ps)
Attached: 1 image US Activist Chris Smalls Assaulted by Israeli Forces While Held Hostage After Gaza Aid Mission Chris Smalls, co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union and part of the #Handala Gaza aid mission, was reportedly assaulted by seven Israeli officers while held hostage after the ship was intercepted and taken to Ashdod. He was choked and kicked, with visible injuries to his neck and back, treatment not applied to other hostages. #Gaza #FreedomFlotilla @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel@a.g…

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/26/tippping-points-amazon-rainforest-climate-s…

Amazon says it has deployed over 1M robots in its warehouses, its most ever and close to its human workforce, with 75% of global deliveries aided by robotics (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-warehouse-

If you are part of a book club, like maybe an accessibility book club, remember that there are far better choices than Amazon for your book.
For example, this book can come from your local independent seller or benefit a support fund:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/…

Amazon Music Unlimited: Abonnenten bekommen ein Hörbuch pro Monat
Abonnenten von Amazon Music Unlimited können künftig ein Audible-Hörbuch pro Monat hören. Damit folgt Amazon dem Spotify-Vorbild.

I think I may have got this giant roll of 2” (I think) flexible pipe….. for free?
I don’t have a receipt for it. All I have is the tracking number. The Amazon order is cancelled so there is no info there. My credit card has two $0 transactions on the date it was ordered.
I was not expecting it to show up. I need to confirm that it is actually 2” but either way, I guess…
…umm… 🎁 🐴
#amazon #pondlife

The motorcycle cover that I bought from Amazon 12 months ago failed so catastrophically that the motorcycle emerged from the hole that developed on it.

Lauren Sanchez, in preparation for her Venice wedding, is carrying an Eiffel Tower purse that likely costs more than your monthly salary.
Jeff Bezos’s yacht Koru’s purchase price could supply insulin for 856,666 diabetics or feed roughly 1,285,000 people for an entire year.
The Bezos/Sanchez $10 million wedding is just the tip of the selfish iceberg that is the Amazon empire, -- known for grinding warehouse workers into the ground with surveillance practices, extreme time manag…

Why Venetians want Jeff Bezos to choke on his wedding cake
Taya Graham breaks down what Bezos’s luxurious fete reveals about the massive wealth imbalance in the United States.

Sources: Amazon is paying $20M to $25M a year to use NYT's editorial content in a multi-year deal for its AI platforms, which is ~1% of NYT's total 2024 revenue (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/amazon-

📰 Täglich von 6 bis 23 Uhr findest Du hier und auf @… kostenlose News zu vielen Themen. Leider muss ich die Hosting-Rechnungen seit Jahren allein zahlen. Ich will die Amazon-Partnerlinks loswerden, aber das geht nur mit Eurer finanziellen Hilfe.
Bitte unterstütze meine Arbeit mit einer Steady-Mitgliedschaft:

KlimaCrew
Ich informiere über Zukunftsthemen, um Menschen vor Risiken zu warnen und Fortschritte sichtbar zu machen.

It is hard to comprehend how screwed up is HP's "Instant Ink" program.
Although one can remove a printer from the program, one can not remove the printer - it hangs around on HP's webpages and it emits notifications (even if unplugged) like a zombie.
There seems to be no way to sign up a new printer (assuming I wanted to sign up) except via a smart phone.
(A set of new cartridges for the new printer costs more than I paid Amazon for the entire new printer,…

Amazon in Germany has Synchronicity now! That's one time-travel movie I've always wanted to see as it has been held up as one of the genre's best.
Well, one thing's clear immediately: they loved Bladerunner. Music, city, night, rain...
#scifimovies

Microsoft und Amazon machen "Wolfenstein" zur Prime-Serie
Die Shooter-Reihe "Wolfenstein" wird als Serie umgesetzt. Wie bei "Fallout" arbeitet Microsoft dafür mit Amazon zusammen.
http…

> "AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114760351207463338

Self Hosting is not the answer.
"I realized how privileged I am to have the skills required for digital sovereignty. I realized how unattainable, unsustainable, and unrealistic self-hosting is as a mass solution to the problems we face. I realized that self-reliance isn't freedom — it's the luxury of retreating from a system that others can't escape."

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
Hey friends 👋, A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers. Thankfully, I still have access to my library because I saw this video by Jared Henderson warning of the change and downloaded all

I have mixed feelings about this.
a - first Bond film not under the control of the Broccolis.
b - But its Amazon.
c - But its Villeneuve.

I'm conflicted.
#movies #bond #jamesbond

Happy Birthday, #Amazon! Früher kaufte ich Bücher lokal, heute kauft Amazon alles – sogar meine Aufmerksamkeit. Der Dash-Button für’s Gewissen fehlt aber noch. Es bleibt: Wer Vielfalt will, muss gelegentlich auf „Prime-Komfort“ verzichten. Dank an Jörg Schieb für den Denkanstoß!
30 Jahre Amazon: Wie ein Online-Buchladen die Welt veränderte - Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI

30 Jahre Amazon: Wie ein Online-Buchladen die Welt veränderte - Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
30 Jahre Amazon: Wie ein Online-Buchladen die Welt veränderte

Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250730548163/en/
http://www.

🫘 Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/soy-crops-squeeze-amazon-park-with-11000-year-old-rock-paintings-in-brazil/

Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil
Remarkable discoveries in an Amazon cave rewrote human history, but it remains largely unknown as farmers advance closely.

New Brazil development law risks Amazon deforestation, UN expert warns #Brazil

New Brazil development law risks Amazon deforestation - UN expert
A new environmental licensing law has been criticised by environmentalists as Brazil prepares for COP30.

1/2: Eeek!
https://blog.google/products/chrome/store-reviews/
Just me, or is this a horrifying prospect? The SEO wars and the Amazon homepage have taught us that businesses will do anything - ANYTHING, ethics be damned, to game their online reputations. This …

Chrome is helping you shop smarter and safer with store reviews.
We’re introducing store reviews to Google Chrome in the U.S. to make your online shopping experience safer and more efficient. This feature uses data from Google Shopping and other popular review websites to provide people with helpful insights when shopping on e-commerce sites.Just click the icon to the left of the web address and you can access an AI-generated summary of reviews. The description will cover topics like customer service, product quality, shipping, pricing and returns, helping…

Bridging Cloud Convenience and Protocol Transparency: A Hybrid Architecture for Ethereum Node Operations on Amazon Managed Blockchain
S M Mostaq Hossain, Amani Altarawneh, Maanak Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18774

Bridging Cloud Convenience and Protocol Transparency: A Hybrid Architecture for Ethereum Node Operations on Amazon Managed Blockchain
As blockchain technologies are increasingly adopted in enterprise and research domains, the need for secure, scalable, and performance-transparent node infrastructure has become critical. While self-hosted Ethereum nodes offer operational control, they often lack elasticity and require complex maintenance. This paper presents a hybrid, service-oriented architecture for deploying and monitoring Ethereum full nodes using Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB), integrated with EC2-based observability, IA…

"Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities"
by Corey Quinn
Big oof. This is a great breakdown of what happened and why it's concerning — and especially so because we're not hearing the details from Amazon.
https://www.la…

Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $167.7B, operating income up 31% YoY to $19.2B, and net income up 35% YoY to $18.2B (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250730548163/en/

Quantum-Classical Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo with Matchgate Shadows on Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
Luning Zhao, Joshua J. Goings, Willie Aboumrad, Andrew Arrasmith, Lazaro Calderin, Spencer Churchill, Dor Gabay, Thea Harvey-Brown, Melanie Hiles, Magda Kaja, Matthew Keesan, Karolina Kulesz, Andrii Maksymov, Mei Maruo, Mauricio Mu\~noz, Bas Nijholt, Rebekah Schiller, Yvette de Sereville, Amy Smidutz, Felix Tripier, Grace Yao, Trishal Zaveri, Coleman Collins, Martin Roetteler, …

Quantum-Classical Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo with Matchgate Shadows on Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
We demonstrate an end-to-end workflow to model chemical reaction barriers with the quantum-classical auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QC-AFQMC) algorithm with quantum tomography using matchgate shadows. The workflow operates within an accelerated quantum supercomputing environment with the IonQ Forte quantum computer and NVIDIA GPUs on Amazon Web Services. We present several algorithmic innovations and an efficient GPU-accelerated execution, which achieves a several orders of magnitude spee…

Well this is interesting...
#Linux

Linux Foundation Opens the Door to DocumentDB
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will both work on the open source, document-oriented database system, per the annoucement at Open Source Summit Europe.

Volkswagen faces historic $30 million compensation for Amazon labor abuses in Brazil
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/volkswagen-faces-historic-30-million-223709051.html

James Bond: Amazon lässt Dune-Regisseur neuen Film drehen
Amazon arbeitet an einem neuen "James Bond"-Film. Regisseur ist Denis Villeneuve, der unter anderem die "Dune"-Filme gedreht hat.

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…

Trump administration announces new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. This initiative aims to make accessing health records and monitoring wellness easier. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is expected to discuss this at an event with leaders from companies like Google and Amazon. The system will focus on diabetes, weight management, and digital tools for patient check-ins. While officials say patients must opt in and data will be secure,…

Sources: Amazon is paying $20M to $25M a year to use NYT's editorial content in a multi-year deal for its AI platforms, which is ~1% of NYT's total 2024 revenue (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

NBCUniversal and Amazon reach distribution deals for Prime Video, Peacock, Fire TV, and Xfinity X1, including offering Peacock Premium Plus on Prime Video (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/amazon-nbcu-peacock-availa…

Amazon, NBCU Make Peacock Available Via Prime Video Sign-Up
Amazon, NBCU Make Peacock Available Via Prime Video Sign-Up

Neue Filme und Serien bei Netflix, Disney und Amazon Prime im September 2025
Disney zeigt im September die Realverfilmung von "Lilo & Stitch". Bei Netflix startet die Serie "Black Rabbit" und Bei Amazon Prime Video läuft "Shot Caller".

😱 #Amazon übernimmt das Start-up #Bee, das ein tragbares Gerät entwickelt hat, das Gespräche mithört, transkribiert und als persönliche KI-Zusammenfassung aufbereitet.
Für 49,99 Dollar bietet Bee damit eine Art „Gedächtnisprotokoll“ am Handgelenk.
Die Nutzer können der KI Zugriff auf Kalender…

Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
Amazon is acquiring Bee, an AI startup that created a wrist-based device that listens to everything you say and creates AI-generated transcripts.

Check out I Don't Write About Girls by Marcin feat. Ichika Nito on Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0D5DCLF4L?trackAsin=B0D5DCLF4M&do=play&ts=1750437613&ref=dm_sh_4hj6HTTKIHglFy…

Source: Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after noticing third-party merchants were selling games in the US at prices below Nintendo's rates (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Amazon says Prime Video in India caters to "subscription-ready" customers while Amazon MX Player is aimed at those transitioning from traditional media (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/amazon-india-st…

Amazon Preps Sets India Streaming Push With Prime Video, MX Player
Amazon targets India's diverse streaming market with Prime Video for premium subscribers and MX Player for mobile users.

👾 Invasion intensifies on Karipuna Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/invasion-intensifies-on-karipuna-indigenous-land-in-the-brazilian-amazon/

Invasion intensifies on Karipuna Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon
Illegal invasions in the Karipuna Indigenous Territory in the northwest of the Brazilian Amazon have started to advance again, Karipuna leaders told Mongabay following an alert by global nonprofit Survival International. “This year has been very difficult because there are a lot of people on our territory,” André Karipuna, the chief of the Karipuna people, […]

PitchBook: US VC investment in AI startups rose 33% QoQ to $65B in Q1, up 550% from the quarter prior to ChatGPT's 2022 release (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/ai-spending-openai-amazon-meta.html…

A.I. Frenzy Escalates as OpenAI, Amazon and Meta Supersize Spending
Companies like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta have supersized their spending on artificial intelligence, with no signs of slowing down.

Switch2 bei Amazon wieder lieferbar.
Sie war über eine Woche bei Nintendo bzw. Amazon mit Mario Kart ausverkauft. Seit heute ist sie aber wieder lieferbar.
Dagegen ist bei Madiamarlt die ganze Zeit ein Liefertermin Anfang August angegeben. Sieht so aus, als wenn Nintendo doch lieber selber verkauft als über Mediamarkt 🧐
https://am…

Alte Platten in neuen Kleidern: Betrug auch bei externen Festplatten
Auf Amazon sind UnionSine-Festplatten ein Bestseller. Eine Untersuchung zeigt: In neuen Gehäusen stecken teilweise alte, gebrauchte HDDs.

Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauš-Mirim! https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1305/brazil-protect-the-mangroves-and-tropical-forests-of-taua-mirim

#petition Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of Maranhão are threatened by infrastructure, industrial, and agricultural projects. Please support our petition.

Amazon bringt etwas günstigeren Kindle Colorsoft mit leichten Abstrichen
Amazon macht aus dem Kindle Colorsoft eine Serie. Jetzt gibt es den farbigen E-Book-Reader auch günstiger mit weniger Speicher sowie ein Modell für Kinder.

Pamela Alma Weymouth, Katharine Graham's granddaughter, says The Washington Post is at risk under Jeff Bezos and urges him to keep his promise to defend it (Pamela Alma Weymouth/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/t…

My Grandmother Stood Up to Nixon—Jeff Bezos Should Take Note 
Fifty-four years ago, Katharine Graham defended The Washington Post against presidential threats. Her granddaughter now fears its soul is being sold.

Amazon kauft Wearable-Startup Bee
Das Start-up Bee baut ein dauerhaft mithörendes KI-Wearable fürs Handgelenk. Jetzt will Amazon die Firma kaufen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Amazon-kauft-Wea

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period https://phys.org/news/2025-07-amazon-degradation-years-deforestation-falls.html

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period
The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in deforestation from 2022 to 2024. This "negative balance" in protecting the biome jeopardizes the international goals for combating the climate crisis that have been assumed by the country, which is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) this year.

The Trump administration says Apple, Google, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, and 60 companies have pledged to make data sharing seamless across health care systems (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-30/…

Project Kuiper: Amazon startet zweite Serie von Internetsatelliten
Amazon hat seine zweite Serie von Kuiper-Internetsatelliten ins All gebracht. Die Satellitenkonstellation soll Elon Musks Starlink Konkurrenz machen.

The UK's CMA finds that Microsoft's software licensing terms harm competition in the cloud market, may open a probe into Microsoft and Amazon in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/364036c5-524c-40ed-a9ad-cd2c969c211f

Microsoft's FY 2025 report excludes the names of rivals, breaking from a common industry practice; its last report designated 25 companies as competitors (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/microsoft-competitors-filings.html

Microsoft ends tradition of naming competitors in regulatory filings
Apple, Meta and Nvidia still mention their rivals in annual reports. It's a practice that Alphabet, Amazon and Tesla gave up years ago.

Dienstag: Amazon schickt weitere Satelliten ins All, Apple streitet mit der EU
Zweite Gruppe Kuiper-Internetsatelliten Apple mit EU in Disput IT-Attacke auf Polizei Googles Zusammenarbeit mit Lenovo Simulationen bestätigt

Walmart's Flipkart says about 200M Indian users engaged with social videos and livestreams promoting products on the platform in H1 2025, up from 75M a year ago (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles…

NBCUniversal and Amazon reach distribution deals for Prime Video, Peacock, Fire TV, and Xfinity X1, including offering Peacock Premium Plus on Prime Video (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/amazon-nbcu-peacock-availa…

The Amazon has lost an area larger than Spain in 40 years, report shows #Amazon

The Amazon has lost an area larger than Spain in 40 years, report shows
Some 52 million hectares of natural land have been lost in the Brazilian Amazon region since 1985—an area larger than Spain.

Amazon launches its second batch of 27 Kuiper satellites to low Earth orbit via a ULA rocket, taking the total in orbit to 54 of its planned 3,236 constellation (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/amazon-kuiper-satellites-musk-starlink.h…

Amazon launches second batch of Kuiper internet satellites, taking on Elon Musk's Starlink
Amazon has sent more Kuiper craft into space as it looks to deploy a satellite constellation that rivals Starlink, a service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

heise meets … Entwickle dich weiter oder stirb!
Auf dem WeAreDevelopers World Congress hatten wir das Vergnügen, eine lebende Legende höchstpersönlich vors Mikrofon zu bekommen: Amazon-CTO Werner Vogels.
https://www.

Amazon says it plans to bring same-day and next-day delivery to "tens of millions" of people who live in "more than 4,000" smaller US towns by the end of 2026 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691877/amazo

Amazon bringing same-day delivery to ‘millions’ of rural customers
Amazon announced that it was bringing same-day and next-day delivery to 4,000 small towns and rural communities by the end of 2026.

Donnerstag: Porsche ohne eigene Akkus, Amazon-Tablet mit Android statt Fire OS
Cellforce eingeschrumpft Amazon mit Android-Tablet QR-Tricks von Kriminellen Googles Pixel- und KI-Neuheiten Plattformen für Kubernetes #heiseshow

Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

While the Brazilian government is selling off the Amazon Rainforest to fossil fuel companies, banks like Banco Santander are bankrolling them to further destroy the Amazon. Without money, fossil fuel giants can’t drill. Sign the petition and tell Santander, stop destroying the Amazon! https://act.350.org/sign/Santander-ama

Tell Santander: Stop destroying the Amazon!
While the Brazilian government is selling off the Amazon Rainforest to fossil fuel companies, banks like Banco Santander are bankrolling them to further destroy the Amazon. Without money, fossil fuel giants can’t drill. Sign the petition and tell Santander, stop destroying the Amazon!

Amazon's VP of Generative AI Vasi Philomin left for another company; VP of Amazon Elastic Block Store Rajesh Sheth assumed some of Philomin's responsibilities (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co…

Künstliche Intelligenz: Amazon will künftig mit weniger Mitarbeitern auskommen
Ansy Jassy, Chef von Amazon, glaubt, dass der Online-Händler in Zukunft mit weniger Mitarbeitern in den Büros auskommt. KI soll sie ersetzen können.

Amazon updates its color screen Kindle Colorsoft with a cheaper 16GB model for $250 and a kids-focused bundle with one year of Kids Plus for $270, available now (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712765/amazon-kindle-colorsoft-16-gb-kids

Amazon is launching a cheaper color Kindle
Amazon is launching two new iterations of the Kindle Colorsoft: a cheaper model and one available in a kids-focused bundle.

Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney , Hulu, and ESPN (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney, Amazon Ink Deal to Expand Advertising Partnership
The pact unlocks more opportunities for brands using Amazon's Deliver Service Partner to reach consumers watching Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN content.

Amazon: Prime-Abo für alle zwischen 18 und 22 deutlich günstiger
Amazon gewährt nun allen jungen Menschen zwischen 18 und 22 Jahren einen Nachlass auf das Prime-Abo: Sie zahlen nur noch 4,50 Euro pro Monat.

"Fallout": Amazon veröffentlicht Trailer zu Staffel 2
Zur Gamescom-Eröffnung hat Amazon einen ersten Trailer zur zweiten Staffel von "Fallout" veröffentlicht. Zu sehen ist Staffel 2 ab Dezember.
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Amazon is acquiring Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/711621/amazon-bee-ai-wearable-acquisition

Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
Amazon is acquiring Bee, an AI startup that created a wrist-based device that listens to everything you say and creates AI-generated transcripts.

Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can "steer" laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/amazon-backs-program…

Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive | TechCrunch
Lumotive reopened its February Series B round to add Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund and ITHCA Group, increasing the size of the round to $59 million.

Keine Switch 2 bei Amazon US: Offenbar Streit zwischen Nintendo und Amazon
In den USA kann man die Switch 2 nicht bei Amazon kaufen. Laut einem Bloomberg-Bericht liegt das am Krach zwischen Amazon und Nintendo – es geht um den Preis.

Sources: US suppliers are rebuffing Temu's efforts to undercut Amazon, saying Temu cannot undercut Amazon on branded product prices (Rafe Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f598af19-ae3b-4be5-b93b-6e5f6b2b5d06

Amazon launches at-home diagnostic services in six Indian cities in partnership with Orange Health Labs, marking its entry into India's diagnostics market (Menaka Doshi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Amazon soll Werbung bei Prime Video verdoppelt haben
Dreieinhalb Minuten pro Stunde: So viel Werbung zeigte Amazon bei Prime Video bislang. Doch mittlerweile ist offenbar fast doppelt so viel Werbung zu sehen.

Q&A with David Luan, head of Amazon's AGI research lab, on leaving Adept in a reverse acquihire deal, why he believes progress on AI models has slowed, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race
David Luan, the head of Amazon’s AGI lab, on GPT-5, agents, and the path to winning the AI race.

Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B in the UK in 2023 (Freya Jones/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says "no customer resources were impacted" (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-comma…

Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
2027 will Amazon "Spaceballs 2" ins Kino bringen

Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney , Hulu, and ESPN (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney, Amazon Ink Deal to Expand Advertising Partnership
The pact unlocks more opportunities for brands using Amazon's Deliver Service Partner to reach consumers watching Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN content.

VR-Brillen zum Kampfpreis auf Amazon: Welche Geräte lohnen sich?
Zum Prime Day lockt Amazon mit Rabatten auf drei aktuelle VR-Brillen – Meta Quest 3S, Pico 4 Ultra und Pimax Crystal Light. Wer sollte zuschlagen?

In a memo to employees, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI "will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains" over time (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-

Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Tuesday that the company expects artificial intelligence "will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains" over time.

Amazon reorganizes its healthcare business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure, following executive departures and its struggles in the market (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/amazon-reorganizes-i…

Amazon reorganizes health-care business in latest bid to crack multitrillion-dollar market
Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure in a market where it's spent billions of dollars on acquisitions.