• AMZN: Amazon invests $1B to embed AWS engineers in customer sites via a Forward Deployed Engineering unit to build and deploy AI systems for regulated sectors, scaling through partners.
  • Amazon is building a new transatlantic subsea fiber link between Ireland and the U.S., expanding network capacity to support its Ireland operations and AI-related connectivity for traders to monitor.
  • Amazon agreed to buy 1.95M nature-based carbon removal credits from a South Africa restoration project restoring 50,000 hectares, planting 180M spekboom, and aiming to create ~11,000 jobs by 2030.
  • Analyst Taurani said Amazon’s quick-commerce push, with Flipkart and Reliance, aims to retain existing shoppers. Quick commerce remains a small portion of Amazon’s overall e-commerce orders.
  • Amazon (AMZN) will pay $2.25M to settle FTC claims it missed FCRA deadlines for providing identity-theft application and transaction records; alleged lack of written request process until early 2025.