
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.
Use the header search or filters below.

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

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.

A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.

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

Amended agreement clears the way for OpenAI models to run on Amazon Bedrock.

OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while Microsoft gets more cash in a revenue-share agreement.
Amazon's podcasting business seems to have transformed over the past six months.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
Amazon-backed X-energy was able to raise around 20% more money in its IPO as demand for nuclear power surges.
Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.

“It’s working!“: Amazon emails with vendors show pattern of disappearing deals.

Anthropic secures 5 gigawatts of Amazon’s custom silicon as Claude demand soars.
The agreement comes just as Einride is finalizing a merger with blank-check company Legato Merger Corp. to go public.

The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store.

AWS released Agent Registry in preview as part of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, providing a centralized catalog for discovering, governing, and reusing AI agents, tools, and MCP servers across organizations. The registry indexes agents regardless of where they run and supports both MCP and A2A protocols natively. Microsoft, Google Cloud, and the ACP Registry offer competing solutions. By Steef-Jan Wig

Amazon announces $11.6B merger with Globalstar and satellite deal with Apple.
Amazon on Tuesday agreed to buy satellite company Globalstar, known for powering Apple's "Emergency SOS" feature, for $11.57 billion in cash.

Though Amazon has faced issues with warehouse safety, the company said that the death was not work related.

AWS launched a standalone Sustainability console with API access, configurable CSV exports, and Scope 1-3 emissions data by service and Region. The console decouples emissions reporting from billing permissions. AWS CTO Werner Vogels framed carbon as an architectural metric belonging alongside latency, cost, and error rates in the observability stack. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Flipkart's ongoing expansion beyond major cities and heavy discounting is raising risks for India's quick commerce startups, analysts say.
Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.

Amazon told Kindle owners this week that it's ending support for all e-readers released in 2012 or earlier, making them virtually unable to load any new content.

Post-2013 Kindles will continue to work, even if they no longer receive updates.

The new model will be used by a small number of high-profile companies to engage in defensive cybersecurity work.
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.

The e-commerce giant called the surcharge "temporary" but couldn't give a date for when the policy would be retired.

Amazon denies violation, says SpaceX caused conflict by lowering Starlink satellites.