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Amazon said Monday (April 6) that it has reached a new deal with the United States Postal Service (USPS) in which the postal agency will continue to make 80% of the package ...

Perplexity went to a federal appeals court on Wednesday (April 1) seeking to overturn an injunction that bars its artificial intelligence (AI) shopping agent, Comet, from accessing Amazon, according to ...

Sellers using Amazon’s shipping services will be required to pay a fuel and logistics-related surcharge, the company said in a Thursday (April 2) post on Amazon Seller Central. The surcharge will amount to 3.5% and will be calculated on ...

For small businesses, access to credit is, in many cases, available. The problem is that many of the products offered do not reflect how those businesses operate. PYMNTS Intelligence, in tandem ...

Walmart Mexico is deploying Vusion’s EdgeSense connected store platform across its Walmart Express stores and then its Walmart Supercenters. The EdgeSense platform includes intelligent shelf infrastructure, computer vision, artificial intelligence, electronic ...

Amazon has inked an agreement with Delta to bring faster Wi-Fi to the airline’s flights. The partnership, announced Tuesday (March 31), will see Amazon install its Leo satellite technology on hundreds of Delta Air Lines planes, ...

The upcoming changes driven by artificial intelligence (AI) played a role in the decision of Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey to step down from his role, Quincey told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” ...

The traditional eCommerce funnel ended at checkout. Once a consumer clicked “buy,” the retailer’s job was to deliver the product quickly and accurately. That framework pushed retail competition toward a familiar ...

Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a firm that designs and assembles humanoid robots that can be used around people and are likely to be marketed to consumers. The acquisition was announced in posts ...

Amazon has expanded its free returns program to 10,000-plus U.S. drop-off points. The eCommerce giant announced Wednesday (March 25) that this expansion means that 80% of its U.S. customers now have ...

Amazon expanded its Health AI agent from the One Medical app to Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app, and Perplexity launched Perplexity Health, a suite of personal health data connectors. The ...

The most endangered species in retail isn’t brick-and-mortar. It’s the mid-market shopper share of wallet. Findings in the March edition of the PYMNTS Intelligence “Share of Wallet: Amazon vs. Walmart” report ...

Amazon is developing a smartphone that will integrate artificial intelligence capabilities and sync with the company’s voice assistant Alexa, Reuters reported Friday (March 20), citing unnamed sources. Known internally as “Transformer,” ...

Amazon has acquired RIVR, a company that uses physical artificial intelligence and wheeled-legged robots to automate doorstep delivery. RIVR CEO and Co-Founder Marko Bjelonic announced the acquisition in a Thursday (March ...

Amazon has brought Alexa+ to the U.K., the first European country to receive the AI voice assistant. Alexa+ is now available across Great Britain as part of an early access program, ...

Walmart has secured U.S. patents for two systems that would use machine learning to inform the company’s pricing, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (March 18). One patent is for a “system and ...

Amazon’s status as the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest customer could be about to change. The tech giant has begun to scale back the volume of packages it ships via the postal service (USPS) with ...

More than a year ago, I asked AI to help me buy a toaster. Not to browse. I knew exactly what I wanted, down to the brand, and I gave ...

A court of appeals blocked a lower court’s order that would have prevented Perplexity’s artificial intelligence shopping agents from visiting Amazon’s website, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 17). The lower court’s order ...

Amazon says it has begun offering one-hour and three-hour delivery options in the U.S. The new service, announced Tuesday (March 17), comes as the eCommerce giant looks to fend off competition in the delivery ...

In the long contest between Amazon and Walmart, strategy has rarely been static. The headlines this week show that while Walmart is investing in supply chain automation, with 23 of its ...

Flipkart, one of India’s biggest eCommerce platforms, is preparing for a potential initial public offering (IPO) in Mumbai that could take place this year or early next year, Bloomberg reported ...

Amazon is making it easier for merchants to participate in Shop Direct, its program that helps customers find and buy products that are not sold in its own store. The company ...

Retail used to compete primarily on assortment, price and convenience. Increasingly, it competes on infrastructure and positioning. In a consumer environment defined by uncertainty driven by persistent inflation pressures, cautious spending ...

Amazon has introduced an artificial intelligence-powered feature for merchants who sell through its marketplace. Called the Canvas experience, it is now available at no additional cost to all sellers in ...

Target is reportedly facing criticism from a group of investors unhappy with its management’s decisions. That’s according to a report Friday (Feb. 27) from Reuters, which noted that this push is ...

OpenAI on Friday (Feb. 27) confirmed it has raised $110 billion in new funding from Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, in one of the largest private capital raises in technology history, ...

When it comes to the Amazon-Walmart competition, grocery has become a key battleground. Why? It’s the closest thing U.S. retail has to a weekly subscription. Win the cart, and you ...

Amazon’s proposed $50 billion investment in OpenAI reportedly has some conditions attached. As The Information reported Wednesday (Feb. 25), sources in contact with OpenAI executives say the decision to invest could ...

A U.K. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday (Feb. 26) that two lawsuits alleging that Amazon abused its dominant position in the market can proceed, according to updates posted by the ...

Amazon will invest $12 billion in data center campuses in Louisiana that will support its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies, the company said in a Monday (Feb. 23) ...

Walmart has introduced a new data insights platform for its retail suppliers. Scintilla In-Store is an off-shoot of the company’s Scintilla platform, and is designed to “reduce out-of-stocks, streamline execution, and ...

Last year, the Competition and Markets Authority, the United Kingdom’s antitrust watchdog, chose former Amazon executive Doug Gurr as its interim chair. Now, the CMA wants Gurr in the top leadership ...

Talk about raining on the parade. New Walmart CEO John Furner’s first earnings call was dampened by the news Thursday morning (Feb. 19) that it had been surpassed by Amazon ...

How much will Anthropic pay the world’s cloud leaders to run its artificial intelligence model? An analysis of the company’s forecasts published Wednesday (Feb. 18) by The Information shows that the company expects it will ...

Fifty years ago, Susan was one of more than a hundred million Americans who drove to a shopping mall an average of once a week to buy things. By 1976, ...

Amazon and Microsoft are reportedly pushing into a new part of the AI world: arranging deals with news publishers. That’s according to a report Monday (Feb. 16) from the Wall Street ...

Is artificial intelligence going to disrupt broad swaths of the economy? Or are tech giants like Amazon, Google and Meta funneling hundreds of billions into the sector with no sign ...

What used to be a retail war between Amazon and Walmart is now a platform war over who embeds themselves deepest into consumers’ daily routines. Over the past week alone, a ...

Amazon is enhancing its health-related offerings by expanding the geographic range of its same-day prescription delivery service and by launching a beta feature that helps patients understand their lab results. Amazon ...

Amazon is in discussions with publishing executives about launching a marketplace that would allow publishers to sell their content directly to companies building artificial intelligence products, according to The Information. The ...

Pay by bank’s practical test has been whether it can scale beyond utilities, gaming and bill pay into everyday commerce. With Amazon’s Tuesday (Feb. 10) introduction of its Pay by Bank ...

New tax laws around research and capital investment reduced Amazon’s U.S. corporate income taxes by more than half in 2025, even as the company’s profits rose, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Feb. ...

Amazon’s Q4 earnings call on Thursday (Feb. 5) produced the number everyone repeated: CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon expects to invest about $200 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, “predominantly ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Fundamental has teamed with Amazon and raised $255 million.  The company, which has developed a “large tabular model” (LTM) to glean predictions from enterprise data, said Thursday (Feb. ...