Most stocks fell on Wall Street following a disappointing update on inflation.
A new federal rule would make it easier for companies to use drones over longer distances out of sight of the operator without having to go through a cumbersome waiver process.
President Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation’s ability to power it.
Two of the biggest touring artists right now are headlining this fall's Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park.
Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has signed a landmark agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink to limit the use of its satellite internet service in illegal mining and other criminal operations in the Amazon.
Greenpeace has joined the smattering of protests in Venice against the upcoming wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.
The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, following a visit this week by Indigenous leaders from Ecuador who urged lawmakers to help stop oil expansion in their territories.
Amazon is gearing up to make as many as 10,000 robotaxis annually at a sprawling plant near Silicon Valley as it prepares to challenge self-driving cab leader Waymo.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy anticipates generative artificial intelligence will reduce its corporate workforce in the next few years as the online giant begins to increase its usage of the technology.
Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from environmental and Indigenous groups.
Colombia’s deforestation dropped 33% in early 2025 compared to last year, with significant reductions in Amazon national parks.
Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of millions of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.
Amazon is expanding its cloud computing infrastructure and artificial intelligence activities into a rural North Carolina county.
In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future.
A civil court in Peru has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected area of the Amazon.
Google is partnering with Elementl Power on three project sites for advanced nuclear energy amid the rapidly growing demand for artificial intelligence, the companies said Wednesday.
Amazon posted higher first-quarter profit and sales that beat analysts’ projections, underscoring the online behemoth’s hold on shoppers looking for low prices and a wide selection in an uncertain economy.
Amazon is not planning to display added tariff costs next to product prices on its site — despite a report that sparked speculation the e-commerce giant would soon show the new import charges, as well as fiery comments from President Donald Trump’s White House denouncing such a move.
UPS is looking to slash about 20,000 jobs and close more than 70 facilities as it drastically reduces the amount of Amazon shipments it handles.
A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found responsible for illegal wildfires or deforestation.
As Big Tech kicks off its quarterly earnings season this week, the industry’s bellwether companies have been thrust into a cauldron of uncertainty and turmoil that they didn’t anticipate when Donald Trump re-entered the White House less than 100 days ago.
With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand their rights to traditional lands as part of the solution to the world’s climate crisis.
In an unexpected upset, the Jason Statham thriller “A Working Man” has taken the No_ 1 spot at the box office, besting the rapidly declining performance of “Snow White.”.
Amazon is suing the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for finding the e-commerce giant legally responsible for the recalls of hundreds of thousands of products sold on its site.
Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud.
The Federal Trade Commission has walked back comments that a lack of resources is interfering with the agency’s ability to be ready for a September trial over Amazon’s Prime program.
Amazon on Wednesday unveiled a generative-AI infused Alexa that it says will allow the popular voice assistant to have more personality, check a user’s tone and even plan romantic dates.
In a James Bond shakeup that stirred the film industry, MGM Amazon announced that the studio has taken the creative reins of the 007 franchise after decades of family control.
Amazon has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle charges that the e-commerce company subsidized its labor costs by taking tips its delivery drivers received from customers.
Amazon-owned Whole Foods is asking the National Labor Relations Board to set aside the results of a union election that led to a labor win.
Nine months ahead of the 2025 U.N. climate conference known as COP30, prices for lodging are alarming those who want to attend the event in Belem, Brazil’s Amazonian host city.
Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Pennsylvania have voted to unionize, becoming the first group of employees to pull off a labor win at the Amazon-owned grocery store chain.
Joining companies such as John Deere and Walmart, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is getting rid of its diversity, equity and inclusion program, a company spokesperson confirmed on Friday.
Have you ever had an Amazon package go missing, never to show up at your front door? Well, there might be an answer as to what happened to that box.
Researchers and watchdog groups say the emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools that allow people to efficiently produce detailed and novel online reviews has put merchants, service providers and consumers in uncharted territory.
Santa Claus has braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to the children of a small village near the Brazilian city of Manaus.
Amazon delivery drivers and Starbucks baristas are on strike in a handful of U.S. cities as they seek to exert pressure on the two major companies to recognize them as unionized employees or to meet demands for an inaugural labor contract.
Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union are on strike for a second day at seven of the company’s delivery hubs just days before Christmas.
In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, big tech chiefs have joined a parade of business and world leaders in trying to improve their standing with President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January.
Donald Trump is hosting Apple CEO Tim Cook for a Friday evening dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
Dozens of environmental nonprofits issued a manifesto Thursday condemning new laws in Brazilian states that threaten to dismantle the Amazon soy moratorium.
The next United Nations climate conference will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation has turned the surrounding rainforest from a vital carbon sink into a significant carbon source.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he is “optimistic” about President-elect Donald Trump’s second term and expressed some excitement about potential regulatory cutbacks in the coming years.
The European Union has agreed to delay by a year the introduction of new rules to ban the sale of products that lead to massive deforestation.
The District of Columbia is alleging in a lawsuit that Amazon secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents of two predominantly Black neighborhoods in the city.
It’s that time of year again for you to hide your stuff (or gifts) from porch pirates. But there are preventative measures you can take to ensure thieves don't cancel your Christmas.
Consumers in the U.S. are scouring the internet for online deals as they look to make the most of the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon on Cyber Monday.
Amazon has introduced a handful of robots in its warehouses that the e-commerce giant says will improve efficiency and reduce employee injuries.
Many Shipibo-Konibo craftswomen migrated from their Indigenous communities in the Amazon to Peru's capital, Lima, in the past few decades.
Amazon is investing an additional $4 billion in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic as major technology companies rush to fund generative AI.
Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international banks’ support for Amazon oil activities they say harm their ancestral rainforests.
Attorneys for Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX have argued in a federal appeals court that the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional.
Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to set foot the Amazon rainforest.
Amazon has launched a low-cost online storefront featuring electronics, apparel and other products priced at under $20.
Amazon workers in Alabama will have the opportunity decide whether to unionize for the third time in three years.
According to official monitoring, Amazon rainforest loss in Brazil dropped by one-third compared to the previous year, according to official monitoring.
Brazilian police have indicted a Colombian fish trader as the person who planned the slayings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon in 2022, they announced Monday.
It’s one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too.
In 2006, environmental nonprofits and some of the world’s largest soybean traders came together in a landmark “soy moratorium” to stop the sale of soy grown on illegally deforested land in Brazil's Amazon.
Amazon led U.S. stock indexes higher, while a surprisingly weak jobs report marred by some unusual occurrences cemented bets on Wall Street for another cut to interest rates next week.
Drops for Big Tech companies including Microsoft and Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms led Wall Street lower.
A man is currently wanted, accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of customer’s Amazon packages right from the warehouse while he worked as a contracted driver for a third-party company.
Longtime NBC News anchor Brian Williams is returning to the screen on election night, only this time he'll be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.
A federal judge said the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with its landmark antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.
Amazon has removed a memoir from its site that purports to detail an abusive relationship between late actor Kim Porter and hip-hop mogul Sean ”Diddy” An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to removal of “Kim's Lost Words: A journey for justice, from the other side.
Britain’s competition watchdog has cleared Amazon’s partnership with artificial intelligence company Anthropic because the $4 billion deal didn’t qualify for further scrutiny.
A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples expert and a British journalist in the Amazon, ruling there wasn’t sufficient evidence to try him.
Kroger and Albertsons have made their final argument in federal court in support of their proposed merger.
Amazon is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week starting next year, reverting to its pre-pandemic policy.
Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria.
