Amazon
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Business
Amazon Is Fined Nearly $6 Million Over Warehouse Work Quotas
California officials cited failures to disclose productivity requirements at two locations. The company said it would appeal.
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Business
U.S. Antitrust Case Against Google Is Just the Start
As the Justice Department’s case against Google nears an end, the federal government has more suits in the pipeline trying to rein in Big Tech.
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World
Amazon Reports $143.3 Billion in Revenue for First Quarter of 2024
The company also reported that profit more than tripled, to $10.4 billion, topping Wall Street expectations.
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World
Amazon Adds $2.75 Billion to Its Stake in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic
The latest investment brings Amazon’s total stake in the San Francisco company to $4 billion.
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World
Rains Are Scarce in the Amazon. Instead, Megafires Are Raging.
Hundreds of square miles of the rainforest have burned as countries in the region battle a record number of fires fueled by extreme weather.
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Arts
The Pianist Amaro Freitas Takes His Jazz Somewhere New: The Amazon
For his latest album, “Y’Y,” the Brazilian composer looked to inspirations in nature and experiments with prepared pianos.
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Business
Amazon Argues Labor Board Is Unconstitutional
The company made the novel claim, echoing arguments by SpaceX and Trader Joe’s, in a legal filing while fighting a case.
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World
Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
Amazon has been racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging in the push to take advantage of artificial intelligence.
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Politics
Amazon Prepares for First Launch of Project Kuiper Satellites
The two prototype spacecraft will test systems to be used in a planned megaconstellation to provide internet service from orbit that will eventually compete with SpaceX’s Starlink service.
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World
The Flaw in the Case Against Amazon
Americans buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. But Americans also just buy a lot of stuff. This presents a problem for anyone contending that Amazon acts as a monopoly: The company is huge, but depending on how you measure its place in the vastness of ...