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• [New] Pinterest committed $4 billion to Amazon Web Services through 2031, its largest-ever infrastructure deal, to power the AI models behind 80 billion monthly searches where roughly half of all search activity is commercial. TIKR.com
• [New] Amazon said it will invest an additional $13 billion in India, expanding its cloud, AI, and digital infrastructure footprint in one of the world's most important technology markets. Tech Startups - Tech News, Tech Trends & Startup Fundin
• [New] Cloud operators such as Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta are together expected to spend close to $700 billion in capital expenditures in 2026 as they expand AI infrastructure. GlobeNewswire
• [New] Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta alone plan to allocate $725 billion to capital expenditures in 2026 - up 77% from last year's $410 billion. Forbes
• [New] Amazon has secured Civil Aviation Authority permission to begin same-day drone parcel deliveries in Britain, and the CAA's Future of Flight roadmap targets routine Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations by 2027 - the regulatory key to UK deliveries and long-range inspections over towns and villages. North London Drone Surveys
• [New] Despite the Iran war and spiking inflation, capital spending by hyperscalers like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms, is expected to increase 63% to $670 billion in 2026. Forbes
• [New] If rivals like Amazon or Google follow Meta's pivot and announce their own PPAs for nuclear, geothermal, or other firm power sources, it will confirm an industry-wide strategic shift away from intermittent renewable-only strategies for powering AI. EnkiAI - Find the right insight
• [New] The new Amazon Ads MCP Server is built on the Model Content Protocol, an open standard that will allow AI platforms to communicate with external tools. Ignite Visibility
• [New] On delivery, Amazon Now, already live in parts of London with 30-minute delivery on groceries and essentials, will expand to Manchester and Birmingham in 2026. About Amazon
• [New] In February, it agreed a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar deal with Amazon Web Services to supply compute infrastructure for cloud and AI, and it expects data-centre revenue well above $500 mn (€435 mn) in 2026 and beyond $1bn (€0.87bn) in 2027. Euronews
• [New] Amazon reached the halfway mark on its goal to bring 100,000 electric delivery vans to the road by 2030. US About Amazon
• [New] Amazon is committing $1 billion to Career Choice by 2030, a centerpiece of the $2.5 billion Future Ready 2030 initiative. US About Amazon
• [New] Amazon is investing more than €10 billion to expand and modernize European fulfillment centers with new robotics and will add 25,000 more jobs. US About Amazon
• [New] AI agents will dominate internet searches, commerce and activity by 2035, disrupting the core business models of Google, Amazon and Facebook. CoinDesk
• [New] Google, Amazon and Facebook are terrified because AI agents will not behave like humans when confronted with ads. CoinDesk
• If SpaceX can seamlessly route inference requests from Earth to orbital clusters via the existing Starlink laser-mesh constellation, xAI will possess a structural cost advantage that no terrestrial competitor (Amazon, Microsoft, Google) can replicate. Klover.ai - Klover.ai
• Pinterest signs $4 billion Amazon deal for cloud services Pinterest will pay AWS $4 billion through 2031 - its largest-ever deal - tapping Amazon's custom Graviton and Trainium chips to scale its AI, particularly visual search, as it fights to keep up with TikTok and Meta. Digiday
• Amazon Leo added satellites with another Atlas V launch, pushing its deployed total past 300, though it still faces a steep FCC milestone to reach roughly 1,600 satellites by late July and a realistic broad-availability timeline closer to 2027. Welcome To The 5Gstore Blog
• Amazon spent $44.20 billion on capex while signing OpenAI to roughly 2 GW of Trainium capacity starting in 2027 and Anthropic to up to 5 GW. 24/7 Wall St.
• Amazon Prime Day will be more complicated in 2026 as freight rates and fuel prices surge amid the ongoing war in Iran, raising costs for the global commerce giant during one of its busiest stretches of the year. Yahoo Finance
• Amazon, through AWS, expanded its long-term partnership with Pinterest via a planned $4 billion cloud services commitment through 2031, the largest infrastructure commitment in Pinterest's history. Stock Titan

Last updated: 28 June 2026