The smart home was supposed to be open, but it’s becoming a toll booth

The smart home promised seamless convenience. What it increasingly delivers is a polished system of gatekeeping, where screens, speakers, and dashboards shape what gets seen, what gets used, and what keeps charging after the hardware is already paid for.

Walmart-owned Flipkart, Amazon are squeezing India’s quick commerce startups

Flipkart’s ongoing expansion beyond major cities and heavy discounting is raising risks for India’s quick commerce startups, analysts say.

Amazon Leo satellite internet is nearing launch, and it already has big customers to rival Starlink

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s long-awaited Leo satellite internet service is finally set to launch in mid-2026, with enterprise and government customers already signed on.

Amazon Luna axes third-party game purchases
Amazon Luna axes third-party game purchases

Amazon Luna announced a big change on Friday that will prevent players from purchasing third-party games and subscriptions. The cloud gaming service will remove previously purchased games on June 10th, 2026, though they’ll still be available to play on other platforms through the EA, GOG, or Ubisoft accounts players used when purchasing the title. In […]

Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign
Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign

In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-powered pet-matching tool on Amazon with Amazon Nova Reel-generated videos of individual shelt…

Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live
Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live

In short: Amazon’s satellite internet service, rebranded from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in November 2025, entered enterprise beta on April 8, 2026, with commercial availability targeted for mid-2026 per Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter. The se…

Your old Kindle is getting left behind in May. Here’s what you can do and keep it going

Amazon will end support for Kindle e-readers released in 2012 or earlier starting May 20, 2026. Here’s everything you need to know, and what you should do before the deadline hits.

Amazon’s chip business could be worth $50 billion, Jassy says, and he hints it may sell them externally
Amazon’s chip business could be worth $50 billion, Jassy says, and he hints it may sell them externally

In short: Andy Jassy’s annual letter to shareholders, published on 9 April 2026, reveals that Amazon’s custom chip business, covering Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro, generates more than $20 billion in annualised revenue growing at triple-digit rates yea…

Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter

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’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date
Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s space-internet service Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) will “launch in mid-2026.” I’m going to assume that means proper commercial availability since the company already announced the start of an “enterprise preview” at the end of 2025, when the service was supposed to originally launch. Unlike SpaceX’s Starlink […]