Amazon Quick

Amazon is committing roughly US$3 billion to quick commerce, betting on ultra-fast delivery of groceries and everyday goods. Analysts are questioning what the investment will actually secure in a fiercely competitive market already crowded with players like Instacart, DoorDash, Gopuff and Walmart. The move signals Amazon's intent to deepen its same-day delivery push in the US, though returns remain unproven.

Taylor Swift has released the music video for her song “Patient Zero,” which is now available to watch on Apple Music, Amazon Music and Spotify. The drop has quickly become one of the most talked-about music stories online, with fans reacting across social media as the new visual arrives during another busy stretch for the singer.

Target Australia has partnered with Uber Eats to offer quick delivery of fashion and household items, following a similar deal by sibling retailer Bunnings. The move is being read as part of a broader retail push by Wesfarmers brands to counter Amazon's growing presence in Australia, while rival Kmart waits on its own delivery plans.

The Financial Times reports that Amazon plans to shift roughly $8 billion worth of chips off its balance sheet, according to Bloomberg's coverage of the story. The move involves semiconductor assets tied to the tech giant's operations, and the report has quickly drawn attention given its size and implications for how large cloud companies account for their hardware investments.

Amazon has passed the milestone of one million robots working across its operations worldwide. The machines move entire shelves of products, carry loads and pick up objects, with some models even able to sense their surroundings while working alongside human staff. The figure makes Amazon one of the largest robot operators on the planet and renews debate about automation replacing warehouse jobs.

Amazon's Prime Video is developing a TV series based on Marvel Comics' infamous Clone Saga Spider-Man storyline, which revolved around clones of Peter Parker and questions over who the real Spider-Man was. The storyline is one of Marvel's most controversial and convoluted comic arcs from the 1990s, making its adaptation news that has quickly drawn attention from comics fans and entertainment outlets.

Amazon Web Services is highlighting a new approach to contract intelligence, combining Amazon Quick and Bedrock AgentCore to automate the extraction of data from large portfolios of vendor contracts. The company says manual review does not scale and that retrieval-augmented chat tools fall short for portfolio-wide questions, so the platform targets structured, cross-contract analysis.

A cybersecurity researcher has flagged a suspicious website at the address amazon-arrived.com as likely phishing, warning that the domain mimics Amazon to deceive visitors. An automated analysis of the URL has been published via the URLDNA scanning service. The alert is being shared within the infosec community, where users are cautioning others not to click links or enter credentials on the site.

Amazon Web Services has introduced Strands Decider 2B, described as the first lightweight decision model designed to speed up agentic workflows. The small model is intended to help AI agents make decisions quickly and cheaply within automated pipelines. The announcement, reported by SiliconANGLE, positions AWS to compete in the fast-growing market for tooling that powers autonomous software agents.