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Bezos edges closer to a £4.5bn Liverpool stakeFenway Sports Group has confirmed talks over a strategic minority investment led by Amit Bhatia, son-in-law of steel billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, but has stopped short of naming Jeff Bezos as a buye…Amazon's off-grid data centre could become America's biggest polluterRegulatory filings show the Pecos County, Texas gas plant backing Amazon's new data centre campus is permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year, which would make it the single largest source o…Amazon just told you the AI spending war has no ceilingAmazon is lifting its 2026 AI infrastructure budget to roughly $220bn, a figure that dwarfs what most FTSE 100 companies are worth combined. This is a wager that whoever owns the most compute capac…AWS growth reaccelerating is the number that moved Amazon's stockCloud revenue growth ticking back up after several quarters of deceleration is what actually justifies the $220bn capex figure sitting alongside it in the same earnings release. Wall Street had bee…Amazon and Walmart's AI shopping bots are quietly burying 'Made in USA'If AI shopping assistants are systematically deprioritising domestic manufacturing labels in product recommendations, that's a policy problem hiding inside a UX decision, not a technical glitch. Th…Bezos cracked the Trump code and Blue Origin is the proofJeff Bezos has spent the past eighteen months methodically repositioning himself as an acceptable recipient of federal largesse, and the contract flow to Blue Origin confirms the strategy is workin…Amazon Prime Day is live and the deals are real, but the framing is notPrime Day 2026 is running now, and the robotics, smart home, and consumer electronics discounts are genuine on a handful of SKUs. The bulk of the 'deals' are products whose prices were quietly rais…Jeff Bezos values a two-year-old UK materials AI start-up at $2.6bnCuspAI, a Cambridge-based company applying generative AI to materials discovery, has closed a $400 million round anchored by Bezos, quadrupling its prior valuation to approximately $2.6 billion for…Amazon rebuilds shopping around AI, claims 60% higher conversionsAmazon is betting its entire retail interface on conversational commerce. Rufus, the AI assistant now used by 250 million customers, delivers 60% higher purchase rates than traditional search, the …Big Tech's $650bn AI spending spree triggers investor revoltThe arithmetic is brutal: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft will collectively burn through $650 billion in 2026, mostly on AI infrastructure that generates no immediate revenue. Meta hiked its …Amazon commits $200bn to AI infrastructure in cloud arms raceAmazon raised quarterly capex to $31.4 billion, implying an annualized pace exceeding $118 billion as AWS chases AI demand. The company plans $200 billion for data centers and specialized chips, in…Amazon backs X-Energy's $1bn nuclear IPO as tech giants chase powerNuclear startups are suddenly bankable as hyperscale data centers devour electricity faster than grids can supply it. X-Energy raised $1.02bn in its public debut with Amazon leading the charge, bet…Amazon commits $100bn to Anthropic in compute warsAmazon just wrote the biggest AI infrastructure cheque on record. The $100 billion deal with Anthropic guarantees compute capacity through 2030 and positions Amazon Web Services as the primary clou…Blue Origin grounding delays Amazon's Starlink challengeAmazon's Project Kuiper satellite internet plans hit a wall after Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket was grounded following last week's launch anomaly. The company needs 1,600 satellites in orbit by Ju…