Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

PhonePe and Google Pay command 80% of India’s UPI instant payments network. Rivals are set to meet with regulators to lobby for restrictions.

Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending

The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it’s also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said.

Amazon now lets you have a real conversation with AI while shopping for products

Shopping on Amazon just got a lot more conversational. The company has launched Join the chat, a new interactive feature inside its existing Hear the highlights experience. If you have not come across Hear the highlights before, it is an AI-powered aud…

Finally, Amazon fixes the one thing that made reading on Kindle Colorsoft painful after dark

Amazon’s latest update finally delivers system-wide Dark Mode to the Kindle Colorsoft and Scribe Colorsoft, covering every surface of the device with per-section customisation.

Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.
Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.

Amazon Web Services announced a set of AI-powered business applications on Tuesday that move the company from selling cloud infrastructure to selling the software that runs on it, a strategic shift that puts Amazon in direct competition with Microsoft,…

Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages

Amazon’s new “Join the chat” feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.

OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.
OpenAI’s models are now available everywhere. The question is whether everywhere is enough.

Amazon Web Services will begin selling OpenAI’s models to its cloud customers, the company announced on Tuesday, one day after Microsoft agreed to end the exclusive reselling arrangement that had given Azure sole access to OpenAI’s technology for the f…

Amazon’s color screen Kindles are finally getting a system-wide dark mode
Amazon’s color screen Kindles are finally getting a system-wide dark mode

Most modern Kindle devices with a black and white E Ink screen offer an alternate inverted dark mode with white text against a black background across their entire user interface. Today Amazon has announced the same feature is coming to the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft that instead feature color E Ink screens, which […]

OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal

OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while Microsoft get more cash in a revenue-share agreement.

Amazon snaps up Oprah Winfrey’s podcast
Amazon snaps up Oprah Winfrey’s podcast

Oprah Winfrey’s video podcast, Book Club, and Favorite Things are headed to Amazon, according to reports from The New York Times and Variety. Starting in July, The Oprah Podcast will get new episodes twice per week, instead of once, debuting across Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Music, Audible, and Fire TV channels. The show will still […]