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Finance

Can the Magnificent Seven Ride Again?

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After serving as the driving force for a blistering market rise, the so-called Magnificent Seven have taken an epic stumble in 2025.

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Big Tech

A Small Union Win Casts a Big Shadow Over Amazon

Prosecutors for the NLRB concluded that a group of 84 unionized Amazon drivers in Palmdale, California are employed by Amazon.

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Artificial Intelligence

The UK Investigates Amazon’s Partnership with Anthropic

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is probing whether Amazon’s $4 billion partnership with Anthropic might break antitrust rules.

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Consumer

Temu Faces a Supplier Revolt

Suppliers are upset Temu is swapping to a more Amazon-esque supplier model and trying to drive prices ever-downward.

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CIO Upside

Google Patent Makes Cloud Infrastructure Simpler

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Patenting this kind of tech could benefit Google in more ways than one.

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Big Tech

Silicon Valley Gears Up for Crucial Earnings Week

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta all report earnings this week. Wall Street is dying for any hint that heavy investment in AI is paying off.

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Big Tech

Who has Liability in the Shifting World of e-commerce?

Amazon has largely dodged liability for the products sold on their virtual shelves. But could the legal tides be shifting?

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Patent Drop

Amazon Explainability Patent Could Bring Responsible AI to AWS

Amazon wants to keep its AI models on a leash.

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Industrials

Amazon’s Internet Satellite Venture Achieves Liftoff in Challenge to Musk’s Starlink

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While Kuiper won’t generate revenue for a while, Amazon is still using its enormous influence to position itself for some corporate Star Wars.

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Patent Drop

Amazon Patent May Help Models Unlearn Biases, Inaccuracies

And Amazon wants to help machine learning models unlearn bad data.

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Consumer

Amazon Sets up a Rival to Shein and Temu

Amazon’s setting up a discounted shop that will fly products to consumers from China. It’s meant to copy Shein and Temu’s business models.

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Media & Entertainment

Does TV News Have a Home in the Streaming Era?

Big Tech loves movies, TV shows, and live sports. So why has it shown remarkably little appetite for the TV news business?

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Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s New AI Voice Model Makes Convos Feel Mighty Real

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Amazon’s head AGI scientist told TechCrunch that Nova Sonic is top-of-class when it comes to conversational flow.

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