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By Blake Brittain Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its AI-powered agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform.
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its AI-powered agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform. In a novel legal dispute, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Amazon was unlikely to succeed on its claim that Perplexity's AI agents violated a federal computer-hacking law. The ruling is the first by a federal appeals court to address whether AI agents acting on behalf of users can legally access online platforms, a question with broad implications for the fast-growing field of agentic AI tools that can browse, shop and transact across the web.
The lawsuit alleges Amazon violated federal and state antitrust laws through its Delivery Service Partner program, arguing the company exercises unlawful “monopsony,” or a dominant buyer’s ability to dictate prices and terms-over the small businesses that deliver Amazon packages and the drivers they employ.
Short sellers piled into Microsoft and Amazon at historically stretched levels before earnings, and the beats that followed set off a covering scramble that has powered both stocks for weeks. Now the question is whether the rally has legs or whether the easiest gains are already gone.
Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Oracle Corp, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future payments under leases that have not yet begun, mostly for data centres needed to power the artificial intelligence boom. The commitments show that a substantial part of Big Tech's AI spending spree has already been locked in, without yet appearing as debt-like lease liabilities on company balance sheets. The total is nearly four times the roughly $285 billion of lease liabilities already recognised on the companies' balance sheets, according to company filings compiled by Reuters.
The state's attorney general filed the federal antitrust lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Amazon of holding down pay for drivers in its Delivery Service Partner program
(Update with New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport's statement on the lawsuit in the penult
Aug 4 (Reuters) - New Jersey sued Amazon.com on Tuesday, accusing the online retailer of abusing its market power over independent delivery drivers, court records showed.
Hims and Hers has 2.6 million subscribers, a battered stock price, and a CEO buying shares instead of signaling an exit. That combination puts a very specific list of giants on alert, and only one of them is a clean fit.
Next year, sales are expected to grow by 59% to $80 billion with earnings surging by more than 80% to $13.87.
The Wall Street Journal reports on the impact the AI build-out and the AI-fueled stock rally is having on the U.S. economy. Together they helped account for roughly a third of recent U.S. economic growth, according to a report by Oxford Economics. “We have never seen a growth rate this high,” John-David Lovelock, a distinguished VP analyst at Gartner told the WSJ Leadership Institute.
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Here's a look at the Magnificent Seven tech stocks, which are on quite a roll. The megacap stocks have added about $800 billion in market cap today alone, adding to about $1.1 trillion over the past two trading sessions, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
Investing.com -- Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud division is seeing customers move from training AI models to integrating them into business operations through a process called inference, according to the unit's chief executive.
Amazon Web Services posted $42.2 billion in second-quarter revenue, topping analyst expectations by more than $1.6 billion
In 2018, Jeff Bezos stood in front of Amazon employees at an all-hands meeting in Seattle and told them the company would one day go bankrupt. That quote resurfaced widely in late July 2026, almost exactly as Bezos appeared in a Fortune interview telling investors that Amazon's chip business is on ...
Meta missed earnings, Apple beat and still sold off, and Amazon rallied on its strongest cloud growth in years. Three very different post-earnings stories now point to three very different decisions for investors sitting on the sidelines.
(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $3 trillion in market value for the first time, becoming only the fifth company to ever reach the milestone.Most Read from BloombergTrump Says US to Hold Off Iran Attack If Deal AgreedAlibaba Adds to China AI Breakthroughs With New Qwen Model Saudi Prince Concerned Over Trump’s Iran Strike Plan: AxiosTrump Says Iran Talks to Begin Monday After Scrapping AttackStocks Join Bonds Higher as US-Iran Hopes Sink Oil: Markets WrapThe e-commerce and cloud-computin
Recent earnings reports by the so-called hyperscalers have driven expectations even higher for their collective AI spending plans. Goldman Sachs credit strategists estimate that approximately $400 billion in highly rated investment-grade bonds could be issued directly by hyperscalers globally in 2027. A group of investment-grade hyperscalers tracked by Barclays credit strategists includes Alphabet Amazon.com Meta Platforms Microsoft Oracle and SpaceX. The spread offered by these companies’ bonds over benchmark Treasurys has widened by almost a quarter percentage point over the past month through July 30, according to tracking by Barclays.
Wall Street just drove a harsh line through the artificial intelligence trade. Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL)added nearly $1.5 trillion in combined market value during earnings week, according to CNBC. Microsoft gained more than $600 billion, while Amazon and Alphabet each ...
Amazon (AMZN) stock blasted off post-earnings as Wall Street celebrated evidence that its whopping artificial intelligence (AI) spending was producing a measurable payoff. For the most part, investors were bracing for another quarter marred by fears of capital expenditure and questions about ...
Meta Platforms reported its second-quarter earnings with one issue dominating investor attention: the soaring cost of its artificial-intelligence expansion. Meta is not alone. Amazon raised its expected 2026 capital spending to approximately $220 billion, while Microsoft expects to invest around ...
Amazon (AMZN) stock closed the July 31 trading session up 15.32% at $271.58, as it soared following the release of its second quarter (Q2) 2026 earnings report on July 30. The stock is up 17.66% year-to-date as of Saturday morning, August 1. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about ...
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