What Did Amazon Do This Week? [FREE ISSUE]
A varied week indeed for everyone's favourite cardboard abuser.
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Abridged version due to apartment move. Business as usual next week. A busy, and varied, week for Amazon including the launch of Haul in the UK which should be popular thanks to economic conditions.
Haul, Amazon’s Temu-style budget shopping experience, launched in the UK and could become a core funnel for cost-conscious buyers. The UK’s digital services tax survived trade negotiations and remains a cost on big tech including Amazon.
In platform news, Amazon disabled book purchases on Kindle’s iOS app again to dodge Apple’s fees. Internally, Andy Jassy marked his Amazon tenure with a corporate culture post. Jeff Bezos led a funding round in Toloka and backed a retail-facing tech fund aimed at individual investors.
A new AWS report, shocking exactly no-one, found generative AI has overtaken cybersecurity as a top tech budget priority. Amazon touted a robotics breakthrough with warehouse bots that can detect touch, while Zoox issued a vehicle recall due to braking faults. AWS also committed $4 billion to cloud infrastructure in Chile.
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