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The Swedish government promised on Friday to fight the sale of childlike sex dolls online.

A major outage affecting Cloudflare’s Global Network has led to widespread internet disruptions, impacting popular platforms like Elon Musk’s X, ChatGPT,and even Downdetector, the first place people look to understand internet outages.

Perplexity AI, the company behind the AI-powered browser Comet, has accused Amazon of “bullying” after receiving a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Perplexity prevent users from utilizing Comet to make purchases on the e-commerce platform.

IBM is set to cut thousands of jobs in November and December as part of a workforce rebalancing strategy aimed at repositioning the company in the era of AI. The cuts come just months after the company claimed it is “focused on American jobs” with plans to invest in manufacturing.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has attributed his company’s decision to slash 14,000 jobs to issues with “culture” rather than prior overhiring or AI, despite warning over the Summer that AI-driven job cuts would be coming.

Amazon’s stock price surged more than 10 percent on Friday morning following the release of its latest earnings report, which highlighted the impressive growth of its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS caused a significant portion of the internet to crash just over a week ago, causing concern for current and potential customers alike.

Google’s YouTube is restructuring its products team in a major shift towards AI, offering voluntary buyout packages with severance to its U.S.-based employees.

Amazon plans to eliminate approximately 14,000 corporate positions in the coming months, as CEO Andy Jassy turns to AI to streamline the company’s workforce and reduce expenses. Jassy worked the company’s employees that AI-driven job reductions would be coming soon.

Amazon is preparing to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday as it looks to rein in expenses after pandemic-era overhiring, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Reuters.

The widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 caused an unexpected disruption for owners of Eight Sleep’s high-end “Pod” smart beds, leaving many stuck with overheating or unresponsive mattresses. This is just the latest evidence that plugging everything in your house into the “Internet of Things” is a really bad idea.

A massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday caused widespread disruptions to numerous popular websites, apps, and online services used by millions of people around the world. Although service was fully restored by the end of the day, details about exactly why AWS failed, knocking everything from school service provider Canvas to popular video game Fortnite offline, remain sparse.

A widespread outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused significant disruptions to numerous popular websites and services on Monday, showcasing the global reliance on cloud infrastructure. Although the outage seems to be fixed as the day begins on the East Coast, lingering outages continue to be reported.

Leftist rocker Neil Young has pulled his music from Amazon and is calling for a boycott because, he says, the online retail giant supports Donald Trump’s government.

Amazon MGM Studios has released the first official image and title for the feature length film promising the world a never before seen behind-the-scenes look at the life of First Lady Melania Trump as she prepares to return to the White House to begin the important work of the administration.

Authorities are investigating a claim by a Maine resident who said she found 250 unmarked absentee ballots in an Amazon package delivered to her home last week, ahead of the state’s November 4 elections.

Gigi Sohn, the failed Democratic FCC nominee who was considered too radical even by Democrats, is criticizing Trump administration reforms to the $42.5 billion BEAD broadband program while reportedly working with some Republican state officials to undermine changes that remove DEI mandates and opened the program to satellite internet providers.

Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations that the company “tricked and trapped” consumers into signing up for Prime memberships and hindered their attempts to cancel the subscription. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said, “The Trump-Vance FTC is committed to fighting back when companies try to cheat ordinary Americans out of their hard-earned pay.”

The FTC and Amazon are headed to trial over the government’s accusations that the tech giant deceives consumers into signing up for its Prime subscription service and makes it difficult for them to cancel their memberships.

A book titled The Shooting of Charlie Kirk was posted for sale on Amazon with an apparent publish date of September 9, 2025 — one day before the Turning Point USA founder was assassinated — which the e-commerce giant blamed on “a technical issue” causing the wrong date of publication. The Company later removed the book for not adhering to “content guidelines.

Users have sued Amazon Prime Video for removing media from their library after being purchased, accusing the company of fraudulent advertising. 

The founder of a powerful artificial intelligence system that could be set to replace human workers in the entertainment industry is predicting a “radically different” world for content creation thanks to the introduction of AI tools.

President Donald Trump announced a new health technology program that would “easily” allow patients to share their records from “one doctor to another,” adding that it will also “make it simple” for patients to access their health records.

The Trump administration is broadening its search for partners to build the Golden Dome missile defense system, looking beyond SpaceX to companies like Amazon’s Project Kuiper and traditional defense contractors, as the relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk grows increasingly strained.

Amazon’s gamble to extend its annual Prime Day summer sale from two to four has gotten off to a rocky start, with sales plunging 41 percent on the first day compared to last year.

Amazon’s big “Prime Day” sale runs from July 8 to 11 this year, arriving at the height of President Donald Trump’s tariff crusade.

Amazon may soon be utilizing more robots than human in its warehouses as the number of deployed bots has nearly reached the e-commerce giant’s number of human warehouse employees.

Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, said Monday that newly enacted tariffs on Chinese goods have not led to meaningful price increases on the company’s platform, joining a growing body of evidence suggesting that recent trade measures have not produced the

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stated in a memo to employees this week that the company expects AI to reduce its workforce in the coming years, affecting both white-collar and warehouse workers.

Specialist police investigating after ultra-left claimed responsibility for burning dozens of Amazon and telecom company trucks in Berlin.

The shopping sites Temu and Amazon are selling “No Kings” t-shirts as leftists plan to carry out demonstrations against President Donald Trump on Saturday.

Several major tech companies are helping fund the festivities surrounding President Trump’s upcoming military parade in Washington, DC, this weekend.

A conservative legal and policy center has asked President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Amazon over its race-based sellers program called the “Black Business Accelerator.”

The tech world is shocked as Builder.ai, once a highly valued AI startup, faces bankruptcy amid revelations that its AI was actually a team of Indian workers.

Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy has revealed that the company has not seen significant changes in average selling prices or consumer spending habits based on Donald Trump’s tariff policy. His statements at Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting serves as another nail in the coffin for warnings of economic doom spouted by hysterical Trump haters.

Amazon has announced that it will now offer prescription pet medications through its online store, providing an option for pet owners willing to trust the e-commerce with the health of their furry friends.

President Donald Trump’s goal to mass deport millions of illegal aliens from the United States will require better technology at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), akin to technology used in the private sector at Amazon or FedEx, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons says.