Internal messages: Amazon steers teams to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production, prompting criticism as ~1,500 employees push for Claude Code
- Amazon internally promotes Kiro over third-party AI coding tools including Claude Code. — Some employees have criticized …
Memo: Amazon appeared to mistakenly alert some AWS staff about planned layoffs in an email invite to a January 28 “Project Dawn” meeting on company efficiency
- Some Amazon employees got a worrying calendar invitation on Tuesday. — The invitation discussed upcoming job cuts and …
Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025
I want to let you know that we're making additional organizational changes across Amazon that will impact some of our teammates.
Ring reinstated its mission to “make neighborhoods safer” and reintroduced video sharing with police in April, as its founder led an overhaul since his return
- Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has led a broad overhaul of the company since his return in April.
Amazon plans to end support for its videoconferencing tool Chime on February 20, 2026; report: Amazon is adopting Zoom as its standard app for internal meetings
cc @quinnypig.com [embedded post] Emil Protalinski / @emilprotalinski : Amazon acquires Zoom in 3, 2, 1... [embedded post] Patrick / @itspatrickpl : Did not even know that this ex...
Sources and documents detail headwinds slowing Amazon's data center buildout: electricity and water supply issues, zoning problems, labor shortages, and more
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Sources: Amazon plans a paid, new AI-powered Alexa by June 2024, tentatively called Alexa Plus, but internal politics and technical issues plague the project
Meeting: Andy Jassy told employees who refuse to return to the office “at least three days a week” that “it's probably not going to work out for you at Amazon”
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees who disagree with the return-to-office mandate that it's “not going to work out for you.”
The US FTC files a lawsuit alleging Amazon used “dark patterns” to steer customers to enroll in Prime without consent and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel
Amazon reports Q3 advertising services revenue grew 25% YoY to $9.55B, vs. $9.48B est., and subscription services revenue grew 9% YoY to $8.9B
- Amazon reported third-quarter results on Thursday that missed analysts' estimates. — It also gave a disappointing sales forecast for the fourth quarter.
Amazon confirms Gregg Zehr, who led the Lab126 R&D unit, and Tom Taylor, SVP for Alexa, are retiring after over a decade, the latest to depart under Andy Jassy
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Amazon unveils the $140 Halo Rise, a bedside sleep tracker that uses contactless sensors, coming later in 2022 with a free six-month Amazon Halo subscription
Filing: Amazon accuses the FTC of harassing its top executives, including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, as part of its investigation into Prime membership
Amazon allegedly unfairly complicates the process for customers who want to cancel Prime—is “harassment” per Amazon https://arstechnica.com/... Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang : Amazon...
Filing: Amazon accuses the FTC of harassing its top executives, including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, as part of its investigation into Prime membership
Ecommerce group hits out at US regulator's tactics in probe into Prime membership scheme — Amazon has accused the US Federal Trade Commission … Source: FTC.gov .
Amazon breaks out advertising services revenue for the first time: $9.7B for Q4, up 32% YoY, and $31.2B for FY 2021; subscription services grew 15% to $8.1B
arguably a coop fee/tax on 3rd party merchants who sell on Amazon — accounted for a third of all revenue. And by itself ads is a $30B/yr business $amzn https://twitter.com/... Matt...
Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 9% YoY to $137.4B, net income up 98% to $14.3B, AWS revenue up 40% to $17.8B, and FY 2021 revenue up 22% to $469.8B; stock up 10%+
SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) February 3, 2022—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021.
Internal doc: Amazon held talks with Starbucks to put its cashierless tech in a co-branded coffee shop, at one point aiming for a Q4 2020 launch
Sources: Amazon will launch its own TV featuring Alexa and no third-party manufacturer branding in the US, possibly as soon as October
and that could be big Andrew / Phandroid : The first Amazon self-branded TV could be arriving as early as October Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Amazon expected to release own Alexa-powe...
Sources: Amazon will launch its own TV featuring Alexa and no third-party manufacturer branding in the US, possibly as soon as October
- Amazon is planning to roll out its own Amazon-branded TV, Insider has learned. — A US launch is targeted for as soon as October.