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• [New] Amazon Web Services and OpenAI have signed a huge multi-year partnership worth $38 billion, with the possibility to grow even more until 2027 and later. Latest AI Tech News: Mid-November 2025 Updates
• [New] Amazon Web Services and HUMAIN said they will expand their strategic partnership to deploy up to 150,000 AI accelerators inside a major facility in Riyadh known as the Artificial Intelligence Zone.
• [New] Amazon-owned Zoox is expanding the testing cities of its custom-built bidirectional robotaxi, whereas Elon Musk's Tesla plans to launch its cybercab by 2026. Yahoo Finance
• [New] Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have all spent billions to support their AI initiatives - and all four told investors last week that they will increase spending even more in 2026. Fortune
• [New] Amazon plans a 75% automated workforce. The Ankler.
• [New] On Monday, OpenAI inked a deal to buy $38 billion worth of compute from Amazon and will immediately start to access Nvidia's graphics processing units. Fortune
• [New] Amazon plans to scale its NYC micromobility fleet by more than 250 new e-cargo bikes in 2025, supplied partly by Mubea. Micromobility
• [New] Amazon ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian through 2024, targeting 50% of deliveries with zero carbon by 2030. Energy Industry Insights from Avanza Energy
• [New] Amazon sees a significant opportunity for growth in its existing physical stores, which are centered on grocery - at least for now. Retail Dive
• [New] Comparable companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft report similar outcomes from adopting AI and then say they will achieve even better business outcomes by ramping their spending on AI infrastructure - which already top $10 billion a quarter - for the next few years. The Register
• Amazon plans to automate 75% of its operations using AI and robots, potentially saving $4 billion a year and reducing the need for about 160,000 warehouse jobs by 2027. Glen Eagle
• Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta will spend more than $400bn on data centers in 2026, on top of more than $350bn in 2025. Edge and Odds -
• OpenAI has signed a $38 billion deal with Amazon to purchase cloud-computing services, calling for immediate deployment of capacity via AWS by the end of 2026, with potential expansion into 2027 onwards. Agentic AI Weekly
• Amazon has announced more job cuts expected in 2026 as part of its AI strategy. ABC 12 WJRT-TV
• Hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon are projected to invest $320 billion in 2025 into AI-related technologies and infrastructure, a substantial 40% increase from the previous year. FinancialContent
• The top 4 American AI spenders alone (Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft) plan to spend $420 billion on infrastructure in 2026. Technocracy News
• Anthropic is already training and running inference for Claude on Project Rainier, and is expected to scale to more than one million Trainium2 chips across direct usage and Amazon Bedrock by the end of 2025. Amazon Web Services
• OpenAI has signed a multi-year, multi-billion dollar deal with Amazon Web Services, gaining access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs and new capacity coming online through 2026-2027. Medium
• Amazon plans up to 30,000 layoffs to streamline operations and prepare for AI-driven growth. investing.com
• Amazon is building consumer AR glasses to guide deliveries and scan products, turning retail into an AR-native use case that could beat social-first rollouts. Glass Almanac

Last updated: 23 November 2025