Amazon
Amazon is dramatically reshaping its grocery business in 2026 by closing all of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go physical stores and redirecting investments into grocery delivery services and expansion of its Whole Foods Market chain. The decision, announced on January 27, reflects a strategic pivot toward formats and channels
Amazon
Amazon is stepping into the programmable optics arena by investing in Lumotive, a Redmond, Washington–based startup pioneering solid-state optical beamforming with its patented Light Control Metasurface (LCM™) chips. The company announced the successful close of a $45 million Series B financing round led by Gates Frontier and MetaVC
SpaceX
In an unexpected turn, Amazon’s satellite-internet venture, Project Kuiper, is teaming up with its rival, SpaceX. Despite fierce competition with Elon Musk’s Starlink, Amazon inked a three-launch contract with SpaceX in December 2023 to deploy some of its Kuiper satellites via Falcon 9 rockets. Racing Against