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On October 15, Musk responded to a post on X. The post claimed that Amazon is blocking the Grok robot from placing orders and suggested that Musk launch X Shop. Musk stated that perhaps a company should be founded to compete with Amazon.

According to The Wall Street Journal, sources say that Amazon (AMZN.O) is in talks to acquire the artificial intelligence startup Decart.

Market news reports that Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) cloud businesses will face stricter scrutiny from the European Union.

According to the Financial Times, Amazon (AMZN.O) is seeking to sell $8 billion worth of Nvidia (NVDA.O) chips to investors.

Meta's personal AI assistant Muse has been accused of reading users' private iMessages without permission and providing false explanations about how it accesses this information. Technology columnist Jason Aten installed the assistant on his iPhone and Mac when Muse launched on September 8 and explicitly refused to grant it access to personal data such as information and calendars.A few days later, Muse sent Aten a notification suggesting he write a column about the new iPhone that he had just discussed with his podcast partner, also mentioning a deadline reminder from the editor. Aten asked Muse how it knew this, and it replied that the Mac application only forwards notification previews and does not involve the content of messages. In reality, Muse had synchronized over 187,000 records from the local private information database on the Mac, an operation that requires full disk access permissions on macOS.David Singleton, head of Meta's superintelligent lab, responded on Threads that this feature requires users to actively choose to opt-in. Aten denied ever turning on that switch and stated that Meta had not answered related questions. Amazon has banned Muse from shopping on its site, stating that the assistant did not indicate its AI identity while browsing and seemed capable of capturing and storing user credentials. Since its launch, Muse has been downloaded over 2.5 million times, with its promotion emphasizing user control over access.

Documents disclosed on Tuesday local time show that accounts under Trump completed 1,156 securities transactions in July, with a total scale ranging from 79 million to 270 million dollars, buying at least 43.6 million dollars and selling at least 35.6 million dollars, indicating a large-scale portfolio adjustment.On July 20, the account sold between 5 million to 25 million dollars of Microsoft and Amazon stocks, marking the largest single transaction of the month. On the same day, it sold between 1 million to 5 million dollars of Oracle stocks and bought between 500,010 to 1 million dollars of Nvidia stocks. Three days later, the account slightly replenished its positions in Microsoft and Amazon. Additionally, Trump also traded related assets of SpaceX and Tesla under Musk that month.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, renowned financial advisor and founder of Edelman Financial Engines, Ric Edelman, stated on Bitcoin Magazine TV that buying Bitcoin now is like buying Amazon in 1999, and he predicts that the price of this leading cryptocurrency will reach at least $500,000 before 2030.Edelman noted that in 1999, people were still debating whether to invest in Amazon, but now there is no debate, and everyone owns it. He believes Bitcoin will follow the same trajectory in the future. He also mentioned that if everyone in the world allocated 1% of their assets to Bitcoin, the corresponding price would be $500,000, and he claims his prediction is actually conservative, as the final price could exceed $500,000 and the timeline could be earlier than 2030.Edelman is a long-time Bitcoin advocate, and he revealed that when he introduced Bitcoin to his peers in the financial services industry in 2013, he was often booed off stage. Today, most people in traditional finance at least acknowledge that the asset "has established a foothold." The article also mentioned that Bitcoin's recent price is about $76,522, up 1% in the past 24 hours, achieving its best performance in years in August, but still far below the historical high of $126,080 set in October.

Amazon announced that it will raise the minimum starting hourly wage for core operations employees in the U.S. (delivery drivers and fulfillment center employees) to $20, with an average hourly wage approaching $24, and a $1 increase for eligible employees.Udit Madan, Amazon's Senior Vice President, stated in the company blog: After accounting for the value of industry-leading benefits, the average total compensation exceeds $32 per hour. This pay raise investment exceeds $1.5 billion.New benefits include Day 1 Financial low-cost banking system, eligibility for First Tech Federal Credit Union membership, a 20% in-store discount at Whole Foods Market, and a 10% discount on Amazon grocery orders. Existing benefits include free Prime membership, prepaid education programs, and healthcare coverage.

According to Gate market data, Generac's stock rose 33.1% in pre-market trading, as the company signed an $8 billion data center supply agreement with Amazon.

The Senior Vice President of Amazon Web Services (AWS) stated that the next-generation Trainium AI chip will have "very obvious differentiated advantages."

The world's largest smartphone processor manufacturer Qualcomm announced that it has signed an agreement with Amazon to develop the latter as a data center chip customer. This collaboration will span "multiple generations" of products, and both parties will develop custom silicon chips to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) artificial intelligence infrastructure.According to the agreement, Amazon has the right to acquire up to $4 billion in Qualcomm shares. The two sides will also collaborate on developing chips for running AI services, as well as chips for connecting computer components.

Amazon (AMZN.O) announced that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has now landed on Amazon Bedrock.

According to Gate market data, Qualcomm surged over 7% in pre-market trading, as it is reported that it has reached a multi-generational product collaboration agreement with Amazon.

The supply chain reports that Amazon, a leading North American cloud service provider under AWS, has recently expanded the delivery of AI server cabinets, with strong shipping momentum from partners such as TSMC, World Advanced, Wistron, and Hon Hai. Amazon has recently revised its capital expenditure for this year, increasing the original estimate from $200 billion to $220 billion, primarily for AI infrastructure, including data centers, servers, and network equipment.Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is optimistic that the demand for AI computing power will continue to exceed supply until 2027, and he has even seen strong demand for 2028. AWS's AI business and self-developed chip scale have grown to $25 billion, maintaining triple-digit percentage growth. Annapurna Labs' customized ASIC chips are mostly produced by TSMC using advanced 3-nanometer processes.World Advanced is an important partner for AWS's self-developed AI chips and is optimistic that its quarterly revenue and profits will reach new highs this season, with continued growth expected in the fourth quarter. The demand for 3-nanometer AI accelerators is better than previously assessed, and designs can be finalized before the end of the year. AWS's ASIC AI cabinets are assembled by Wistron, which also supplies switch trays, while Hon Hai is involved in CPU trays. Hon Hai's rotating CEO, Liu Young-way, stated that this year's ASIC project has made new progress, setting a target for ASIC server market share at over 40%.

Amazon and NVIDIA announced that Amazon will deploy approximately 2 million high-end NVIDIA chips in 2027 and 2028 for training and running artificial intelligence models. Additionally, Amazon stated in March this year that it would install 1 million NVIDIA chips in AWS data centers. The chips involved in this transaction include Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra graphics cards.

NVIDIA's Chief Financial Officer stated that NVIDIA is expanding its partnership with Amazon Web Services.

Amazon officially announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the data infrastructure company DuckLabs. The transaction is expected to be completed after meeting customary closing conditions. Upon completion of the acquisition, the DuckLabs team will join Amazon Web Services (AWS). DuckLabs is the development company behind the open-source analytical database DuckDB.AWS stated that both parties have been collaborating since 2024, and this acquisition aims to combine DuckLabs' technical capabilities in database engineering to further enhance the speed, usability, and cost efficiency of AWS data analytics services. DuckDB co-founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt will continue to lead the team after joining AWS and will be responsible for the technical development direction of the open-source project. Amazon emphasized that this transaction does not include the acquisition of the DuckDB open-source project itself; DuckDB will continue to be maintained by the independent DuckDB Foundation and will remain freely available under the MIT license. Amazon stated that the DuckDB user experience will not change before and after the transaction, and the project will continue to operate as open source. In the future, AWS will further announce specific plans for the integration of DuckLabs with AWS business.

SpaceXAI announced the launch of Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock.