X-energy · 2026-10-19 · partnership
X-energy and AEP announced a joint development agreement to evaluate a proposed 960 MW Xe-100 reactor project in Sullivan County, Indiana. Amazon will provide certain development funding. The project remains subject to feasibility work and future approvals.
About Amazon · 2026-10-15 · product
Amazon introduced two Bee personal AI devices: the Bee Frontier wearable, available now for $74.99 with up to seven days of battery life, and the Bee Eclipse, which attaches magnetically to a phone and will be available soon starting at $99.99. A Bee Pro subscription at $11.99 per month adds integrations with Amazon.com and Alexa+.
Bloomberg · 2026-10-11 · partnership
Amazon.com is in negotiations to acquire artificial intelligence startup Decart AI in a deal that could be valued at around $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported; the purchase could be wrapped up soon if the negotiations don't collapse, the Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. In September, Anthropic decided against acquiring Decart after holding talks to buy it for about $6 billion and performing due diligence.
Reuters · 2026-10-09 · personnel
Amazon confirmed to Reuters that Daniel Rausch, vice president of Alexa and Echo, will step away from the unit next month and be replaced by Aidan Marcuss, currently vice president of Fire TV, advertising and the Amazon appstore. The change came a day after Amazon announced its first tablets featuring the Alexa voice assistant.
The White House · 2026-10-08 · partnership
The White House announced $2.4B in super intelligence for science tools and compute credits for the Genesis Mission Consortium from eleven industry partners. Commitments include NVIDIA ($1B), AMD ($500M), OpenAI ($200M), $150M each from Anthropic and Google, and $50M each from AWS, Crusoe and Micron, among others.
CNBC · 2026-10-08 · personnel
Amazon confirmed it cut a small number of jobs, primarily in its Stores unit, which oversees its main e-commerce website; a person familiar with the matter said fewer than 1,000 white-collar workers were let go. Employees in the US, India and the UK were among those affected. The cuts are the latest in a series of small reductions since a larger round of 30,000 job cuts that began last year and continued into January.
PR Newswire · 2026-10-07 · regulation
Duke Energy's two North Carolina utilities reached a settlement with the North Carolina Public Staff, with Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft among the other parties, requiring large-load customers of 50 megawatts or more with 80% load factor to make nonrefundable upfront payments for grid facilities serving only them. The agreement is subject to approval by the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
Anthropic · 2026-10-07 · product
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest and cheapest small model, saying it costs around 75% less to run on average than Haiku 4.5, and halved the price of Claude Sonnet 5.5's cache reads. The model is available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
PR Newswire · 2026-09-30 · partnership
Synopsys signed a multi-year, $1B+ agreement with Amazon to accelerate the engineering of Amazon custom chips and AWS infrastructure using Synopsys' silicon IP and AI-powered engineering software. The deal moves Synopsys' silicon IP business toward a license-plus-royalty model, with Amazon as its lead customer.
Graph change: added supplier edge Synopsys → Amazon because of this article.
Constellation Energy · 2026-09-30 · partnership
Constellation and Amazon announced a long-term agreement supporting investment in the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Maryland, enabling more than $3 billion of infrastructure investment and about 190 megawatts of new capacity coming online between 2030 and 2032. The expansion is supported by a 20-year agreement that includes 690 megawatts of power.
About Amazon · 2026-09-23 · product
Amazon added persistent memory and automated workflows to its Seller Assistant and launched a plugin that brings Seller Assistant into Amazon Quick and, in beta, Anthropic's Claude.
About Amazon · 2026-09-22 · regulation
AWS said it is the first cloud provider approved for use by all NATO member nations to handle information at the NATO RESTRICTED level. NATO, its defense industry partners and member nations can now use approved AWS services for such workloads in any AWS Region located in a NATO member nation.
About Amazon · 2026-09-22 · partnership
Amazon Leo partnered with Uztelecom to provide satellite connectivity in remote and hard-to-reach regions of Uzbekistan, with Uztelecom affiliate UZ-SAT serving as an authorized distributor of Amazon Leo.
GeekWire · 2026-09-21 · product
Amazon said it cut off Meta's Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on customers' behalf after unsuccessfully asking Meta to exclude the site, saying Meta did not notify it, the agent does not identify itself and it appears to capture and store customer credentials; Amazon said it is in direct conversation with Meta.
SEC EDGAR · 2026-09-16 · partnership
Generac issued an Amazon subsidiary a warrant to acquire up to 1,693,745 Generac shares at $200.9266 each, with 307,954 shares vesting immediately and the rest vesting in tranches tied to Amazon's payments for backup power generators for its data centers, up to a total of $8 billion. Generac and Amazon also executed a long-term supply agreement, with initial deliveries of backup generators expected to total $2.4 billion in 2027 and 2028.
Salesforce · 2026-09-16 · partnership
Salesforce announced new Missionforce AI capabilities for government agencies and a new Missionforce partnership with OpenAI to bring OpenAI's models to secure government environments. Through Salesforce Government Cloud, OpenAI's frontier models will integrate with Public Sector Solutions through Amazon Bedrock, and Missionforce applications and workflows will also be available through ChatGPT.
Stocktwits · 2026-09-12 · partnership
NiSource announced agreements with Alphabet and Amazon, sending its shares higher after hours. The deals tie utility supply to the two hyperscalers' data-center buildouts.
CNBC · 2026-09-09 · personnel
Amazon appointed Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant and former Google Cloud executive, to its board of directors.
Reuters · 2026-09-09 · funding
Amazon raised close to $6 billion in its first-ever sterling-denominated bond sale, according to a lead manager. The issue adds to the debt Amazon has been raising to fund its data center capital spending.
About Amazon · 2026-09-09 · partnership
Amazon and contract manufacturer Wiwynn are expanding their Texas manufacturing facility, adding nearly 1,000 jobs. The site builds data center hardware for Amazon's AI infrastructure buildout.
