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Odyssey ML closed a $310 million Series B led by Amazon at a $1.45 billion valuation, betting that the next AI frontier is machines that reason about the physical world — not just language.
Standard Bots closed a $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, becoming America's largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots with customers including Amazon, Lockheed Martin, and the U.S. Army.
Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus has crossed 250 million users — and sellers who haven't adapted for AI-powered discovery face a structural disadvantage heading into Prime Day 2026.
Amazon MGM Studios has greenlit three Prime Video animated series using its GenAI Creators' Fund — including projects from Jorge R. Gutierrez and BuzzFeed Studios — marking the clearest signal yet that AI-assisted animation production is now a core studio business model.
68% of consumers used AI-enabled shopping tools in the past three months. Amazon and Walmart are racing to control the AI interface — the decision layer — that mediates every purchase those consumers make.
Nearly half of online shoppers now use AI during purchase journeys, and ChatGPT's share of product research has jumped from 2% to 30% in two years. Amazon and Walmart are fighting to control the AI system that determines what consumers see, consider, and ultimately buy.
Amazon is licensing Alexa for Shopping technology to competing retailers via a new AWS product, with Kate Spade the first customer using an AI gift concierge built on Anthropic's Claude Haiku.
Jeff Bezos publicly dismissed AI bubble concerns on CNBC, arguing that even a bubble-driven buildout creates lasting infrastructure value — while revealing he is backing a $6.2 billion physical-world AI startup.
A new global forecast pegs the smart home market at $95.83 billion in 2026, with AI voice assistants and predictive automation driving growth as Google, Apple, and Amazon deepen their ecosystem grip.
Generative AI is powering a new fraud: fake small business storefronts with AI-generated founder personas charging artisan premiums for factory goods.
Retailers embracing agentic AI risk ceding direct customer access and first-party data ownership to the platforms hosting those agents — a structural threat most are not taking seriously enough.
An AI decision layer controlled by Amazon, Walmart, and Google is increasingly determining what consumers buy before they step into a store—putting $1 trillion in annual commerce at stake.
Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon report Q1 2026 earnings today with a combined $600B AI infrastructure commitment under scrutiny — the biggest AI ROI test of the year.
Google is investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic at a $350 billion valuation — the largest single AI bet by either Google or Amazon, bringing combined backing to $65 billion alongside Amazon.
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a restricted consortium giving Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Google limited access to Claude Mythos — the AI model it is withholding from the public.