Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings from Tuesday showed that August 21 was an especially busy day in terms of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock insider trading, as six senior members of the personnel dumped a total of over $15 million worth of equity.
Plus: Canada plans retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% on U.S. imports; Persian Gulf shipping insurance costs surge higher.
Amazon plans to expand fulfillment and same-day delivery in Canada. Amazon was already changing some sourcing decisions to avoid tariffs.
Amazon announced it's shuttering Mechanical Turk, a platform that matches workers with small digital tasks, on Sept. 30. The platform launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers.
By dominating the high-margin enterprise sector, Anthropic has become the leading AI lab ahead of its late 2026 public market debut.
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) has spent much of 2026 in the shadow of flashier AI names, but the Q2 print made clear that Andy Jassy is running one of the highest-velocity AI franchises in the market.
The AI boom is changing the economics of technology far beyond the data center.
Co-hosts Andrew Sather and Stephen Morris on The Investing for Beginners Podcast recently walked through a three-tier framework for finding the best ideas in the AI value chain and ranked names by the margin of safety they see: “When you have a new industry, a new disruption
New York City has a love-hate relationship with Amazon and the delivery vehicles that litter the city. The latest chapter of this romantic drama is picking up heat, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani has officially backed a bill aimed largely at Amazon.
Amazon is upgraded to a buy as AWS growth accelerates and valuation becomes attractive. Q2 net sales grew 20% to $200.6B, with AWS posting its fastest growth in 18 quarters at 37%. Heavy CapEx is justified by robust cloud demand; Trainium adoption seems to be driving margin expansion.
Amazon is developing an automated delivery-station concept that could process packages at about 2.5 times the rate of the company's existing delivery stations, Seeking Alpha reported Monday (Aug. 24), citing a paywalled article by Business Insider.