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Amazon battles freight inflation as shipping costs jump 11% in Q3

Amazon's logistics network absorbed higher fuel and linehaul costs in the third-quarter while delivering more than 1.5 billion items same-day or overnight. The post Amazon battles freight inflation as shipping costs jump 11% in Q3 appeared

Amazon says more than 400M customers have used Alexa for Shopping in the last 12 months

Customers who use Alexa for Shopping are spending 50% more than those who don’t, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said during the earnings call on Thursday.

Amazon Adds 100-Plus Capabilities to AI Shopping Assistant

Amazon has introduced several new capabilities for its Alexa for Shopping artificial intelligence assistant. “Our vision for Alexa for Shopping is to make every part of shopping as convenient as possible,” Rajiv Mehta, Amazon’s vice preside

How the UK Amazon Quick User Group grew in 2026

The UK Amazon Quick User Group's 2026 roundup: three quarterly meetups, 150+ attendees, and customer stories from Arriva, Carsa, and Propulse Lab on using agentic AI and Amazon Quick to turn data into faster decisions, higher satisfaction,

Building intent-driven UI testing with Amazon Nova Act

Epsilon's Agentic Platform team delivers UI testing as a managed, multi-tenant service built on Amazon Nova Act and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool. Tests are written in plain English and run on browsers managed by AWS, giving every p

How MoEngage turned over 400 APIs into agent tools with AgentCore Gateway

MoEngage turned roughly 400 private REST APIs across 7 AWS Regions into permission-scoped agent tools with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. No per-service MCP servers, no public endpoints, and no 400-tool context bloat. See how OpenAPI spe

Accelerate agentic AI with NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon EKS and SageMaker HyperPod EKS

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that pairs reasoning and tool use with multimodal understanding. This post explores its architecture and use cases, then shows how to deploy it on Amazon EKS, EKS Aut

Warner Bros. chases ‘Cat in the Hat’ across Amazon’s ad ecosystem

“Open to Fun” features a mobile minigame, an Alexa integration and placement across Twitch, Prime Video and IMDb.

Why sellers are pausing EU sales over the PPWR – and what to do instead

Nadezda Walz helps online sellers with packaging compliance (EPR, LUCID, PPWR) and is a former Amazon FBA seller herself. packaging-compliance.de. Today Nadezda share’s the challenges she’s see with PPWR and her advice for continuing to sel

Amazon introduces returnless refunds in Europe

Amazon is bringing its ‘no-return’ solution for sellers using Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) to Europe. When customers request a refund, they get their money back without having to return the item. FBA Returnless Resolutions, which has been ava

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Great Products × Effective Seeding × Strong Brand: Deconstructing Amazon's Growth Formula for Beauty Brands Going Global

Amazon video verification becomes routine—will your store be shut down if you don't pass?

From robot vacuums to AI glasses, Chinese smart hardware is blooming across multiple categories on Amazon Japan

Chinese smart hardware brands are accelerating their expansion into Japan, achieving multi-dimensional growth on Amazon Japan from mature categories to cutting-edge fields

A Foshan couple sells kitchen appliances on Amazon, earning 500 million yuan a year and sprinting toward an IPO

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Amazon Expands Shop Direct Catalog to Keep Shoppers Off AI Shopping Agents

Amazon is expanding its Shop Direct initiative, which lists products from brands that don’t sell on its site, in an effort to keep shoppers coming to its site rather than using outside personal artificial intelligence agents, The Informatio

US Foods Counts AI Gains in Seller Hours and Cases per Mile

A US Foods seller used to spend up to four hours preparing a proposal for a prospective restaurant, reading menus, spreadsheets and handwritten notes. A generative artificial intelligence tool now does that work, Amazon Web Services said in

Building an Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Stand up a governed, multi-account Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through the architecture and an open-source reference blueprint: the operating model, control plane, per-Workstream cells, separate inferenc

Accelerating software delivery with agentic QA automation using Amazon Nova Act – Part 3

As QA test automation spreads across an organization, organizing tests and controlling who owns them becomes the real work. Part 3 of the QA Studio series on Amazon Nova Act adds applications that organize tests and report health metrics, p

HAIARA Power Banks Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards; Sold on Amazon.com by Mitrytech

The power bank’s lithium battery can explode and ignite, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers.

Analysis: UPS – the cash line matters just as much as the earnings beat

With its planned cut in Amazon volume finished, UPS is growing the volume it wants, lifting revenue per parcel faster than cost and raising its outlook for the second quarter running, and the shares rose almost 6%. Forecasts for 2026 are co

Amazon’s AI Shopping Assistant Is Now Alexa for Shopping. Here’s What Enterprise Sellers Should Change

If all you heard was that Amazon swapped Rufus for Alexa, you missed the part that matters. The Amazon AI shopping assistant that took over on May 13, 2026 sits in the search bar every shopper already uses, and it changes what you pay for,

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3 designers pooled 30,000 yuan to start a business, and grew it to 1 billion yuan in annual sales

The manufacturing foundation of industrial belts is being repriced