Amazon’s new podcast strategy: Monetize everything
Amazon’s podcasting business seems to have transformed over the past six months.
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TechCrunch Mobility: Elon’s admission
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Nuclear startup X-energy raises $1B in data center-driven IPO
Amazon-backed X-energy was able to raise around 20% more money in its IPO as demand for nuclear power surges.
In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon’s homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.
Amazon Music partners with Bandsintown for concert listings
Users will be able to see live events of an artist on their Amazon Music profile
Amazon taps Sweden’s Einride for its electric big rigs
The agreement comes just as Einride is finalizing a merger with blank-check company Legato Merger Corp. to go public.
Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It’s investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.
Here’s how Amazon’s price fixing allegedly drove up prices everywhere
On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta revealed the evidence of alleged price-fixing by Amazon. The state filed a request to the Supreme Court in February for a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon’s behavior while the lawsuit it originally filed in 2022 proceeds, and is now making that 16-page document available, “largely unredacted.” It lays […]
A giant cell tower is going to space this weekend
This weekend’s scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous. Success would signal an end to SpaceX’s monopoly on reusable orbital launch vehicles, and set up a three-way race to make that “No Service” indicator on your phone disappear forever. On Sunday morning, Jeff Bezos’ massive New Glenn rocket is scheduled to launch with the […]
Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO
Nuclear startup X-energy hit the road today to sell prospective investors on its initial public offering.