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    Amazon

    Amazon is an American multinational conglomerate. It works in e-commerce, retail, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment and artificial intelligence. Jeff Bezos founded it in 1994 as an online book marketplace.

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    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Andy Jassy

    Leadership

    Andy Jassy, President and Chief Executive Officer. Andy Jassy is the president and chief executive officer of Amazon.

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    Loudoun CountyRead the story$65 million

    Key facts

    Founded
    July 5, 1994, in Bellevue, Washingtonsource
    Founder
    Jeff Bezossource
    Went public
    May 1997source
    Acquired Audible
    about $300 million, March 2008source
    Chief executive
    President and chief executive officer since July 2021source

    WYDE coverage of Amazon

    WYDE Newsroom has published 9 articles about Amazon, from Apr 2, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026. Amazon is the subject of 4 stories, a donor in 2 stories and an investor in 2 stories. The most recent is Amazon Moves to Drop GW Campus Data Center Plan for 25 Acres Valued at $65 Million.

    Philanthropy

    Amazon Moves to Drop GW Campus Data Center Plan for 25 Acres Valued at $65 Million

    Under a preliminary agreement announced October 20, 2026, Amazon agreed to convey about 25 acres to Loudoun County. The other 97 acres would be rezoned, with housing as the predominant use.

    Oct 24, 2026 · 4 min read · Donor

    WYDE Weekly

    Revolut and Block Cleared US Bank Charters, AI Proved Fermat and Navier-Stokes, and the CLARITY Act Hits the Senate Monday. Over 65,400 Meals.

    Revolut and Block clear OCC bank paths, Wyoming puts its stablecoin reserves onchain, AI checks proofs of Fermat and Navier-Stokes, the CLARITY Act hits the Senate, and creators can now get paid to end hunger.

    Sep 12, 2026 · 5 min read · Critic

    AI

    Ninth Circuit Overturns Amazon's Block on Perplexity's AI Shopping Agent, Ruling Users Do the Accessing

    A three-judge panel vacated the injunction that kept Perplexity's Comet assistant off Amazon, finding the user, not the AI company, accesses Amazon's servers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

    Sep 10, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    Crypto & DeFi

    Amazon Japan Delivery Partner AZ-COM Maruwa Will Pay 2,300 Drivers in Yen Stablecoin JPYC

    Tokyo-listed AZ-COM Maruwa, a delivery partner for Amazon Japan, will pay about 2,300 truck drivers and subcontractors in the regulated yen stablecoin JPYC, the first large-scale corporate stablecoin payroll in Japan.

    Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    AI

    Square Lets Restaurants Take Orders Directly From ChatGPT and Claude

    Square's new ChatGPT app and Claude plugin let diners discover and order from restaurants inside AI assistants, with no marketplace commission and no setup for eligible US sellers.

    Jul 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    AI

    Claude Fable 5 Returns After a 19-Day Government-Ordered Shutdown

    The Commerce Department lifted the first export controls ever applied to a deployed AI model, and Anthropic restored Fable 5 worldwide on July 1 with stronger safeguards and a proposed industry standard for judging jailbreaks.

    Jul 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

    AI

    Raimondo and Holcomb Launch RAISE US, a $1 Billion AI Workforce Nonprofit

    RAISE US, a nonpartisan nonprofit led by Gina Raimondo and Eric Holcomb, has secured over $500 million toward a $1 billion goal to retrain American workers for the AI economy, with Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation as anchor partners.

    Jun 27, 2026 · 2 min read · Donor

    Crypto & DeFi

    Tether Leads $1.4 Billion NEURA Robotics Round as Robots Get Crypto Wallets

    Stablecoin issuer Tether led NEURA Robotics' Series C of up to $1.4 billion, the largest full-stack robotics round ever, embedding crypto wallets into machines.

    Jun 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Investor

    AI

    OpenAI Raised $122 Billion on Monday. SNAP Cut Refugees Off Food Aid on Tuesday.

    OpenAI raised $122 billion on March 31. SNAP cut refugees off food aid on April 1. Two infrastructure bets in opposite directions in 24 hours.

    Apr 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Investor

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