Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees, the company’s second round of large-scale job reductions in three months as it fights to improve its standing in the battle for AI supremacy. In a blog post ...

STAMFORD — City police are warning residents to be vigilant after two men disguised as Amazon workers invaded a home on Dunn Avenue on Monday and assaulted the couple who lived there. In a post on ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — For nearly 20 years, Brazil’s largest soy producers assured buyers that their harvest — the world’s biggest — wasn’t grown on land cleared from Amazonian forests. The pledge, known as ...

Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses ...

Alexa+ is Amazon's generative AI upgrade to its Alexa virtual assistant. After months in an early access program, Amazon is debuting the Alexa.com website. Users can chat with Alexa+ on the site, just ...

Amazon’s AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant, now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web. On Monday, at the start of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the company announced the official launch of a new ...

Anyone can sign up and chat with Amazon’s new AI assistant in their browser. Anyone can sign up and chat with Amazon’s new AI assistant in their browser. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 ...

Anyone can now try Alexa+, Amazon’s generative AI assistant, through a free early access program at Alexa.com. The website frees the AI, which Amazon released via early access in February, from ...

That $139 Amazon Prime membership covers a lot more than most people ever use. Beyond fast shipping and Prime Video, it includes perks such as expanded photo storage, early access to deals, and ...

Artificial intelligence was responsible for almost 55,000 layoffs in the U.S. in 2025, per consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Major firms including Amazon and Salesforce cut thousands of ...

Israel Englander, Ken Griffin, and Steven Schonfeld -- hedge fund managers who beat the S&P 500 over the past three years -- sold Amazon and bought Rigetti in the third quarter. Amazon is effectively ...