Amazon

includes Amazon Web Services, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Amazon Echo, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Go, Amazon Q, Amazon Titan, Amazon Prime Day, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Haul, Amazon SageMaker and 16 more

160 statements across 69 episodes · 61 bullish · 44 bearish · 33 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2021 by Alex Kantrowitz · said 1,770 times in 175 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

Mentions by year, the whole family

brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (1191), M.G. Siegler (94), Ranjan Roy (57), Matt Wood (48), Kristi Coulter (37), Ryan Petersen (25), Alex Stamos (23), Panos Panay (22)

tap a year for its mentions
004004080080202120222023202420252026episodesmentions
04080202120222023202420252026episodes it came up in
0013402580202120222023202420252026episodesmentions per episode
2026 397 mentions in 58 episodes 7 per episode
2025 665 mentions in 72 episodes 9 per episode
2024 333 mentions in 26 episodes 13 per episode
2023 297 mentions in 12 episodes 25 per episode
2022 65 mentions in 4 episodes 16 per episode
2021 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Amazon, oldest first

Jun 9, 2021 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Democratic coalition uniting warehouse workers and affluent consumers feels unsustainable
“The Democrat coalition right now is, you know, in some ways the people working in Amazon fulfillment centers, you know, who are judged by automated systems and fired, you know, if they have too much time off task, they're voting in blocks together with the peo…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 9, 2021 ▶ 21:32 Andrew Callaghan of All Gas No Brakes Goes Independent
Jun 16, 2021 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2026
Sorkin: Amazon is unlikely to get broken up
“Do I think that Amazon unto itself is going to get broken up? I'd be very hard pressed to see that really happen.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Jun 16, 2021 ▶ 50:26 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Meme Stocks, Bitcoin, SPACs, and Elon Musk
Jun 16, 2021 neutral
Insight
Sorkin: Retail investors cannot drive meme surges in mega-cap stocks
“I mean, it would be very hard For a retail base of investors to move the stock of an Apple or a Walmart or an Amazon in this kind of way.”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Jun 16, 2021 ▶ 11:34 Andrew Ross Sorkin on Meme Stocks, Bitcoin, SPACs, and Elon Musk
Jun 4, 2022
What-if
Amazon Would Not Be a $2 Trillion Company by Merely Automating Cashiers
“If he had been uncreative, he would have walked into a bookstore and said, you know, that cashier, we could automate the cashier. We could put a robot where the cashier is and check people out with a robot cashier. And you know, maybe that would have led to a …”
Erik Brynjolfsson Jun 4, 2022 ▶ 20:45 Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson
Oct 31, 2022 neutral
Opinion
Amazon's Leadership Principles function almost like an internal corporate religion
“Amazon has these leadership principles that structure the way that the company works. These principles are, you know, taught in orientation. They're also the way that the company interviews. Every conversation is structured around them, and it's almost like a …”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 22:33 How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
Oct 31, 2022 positive
Opinion
Amazon uses AI to automate execution and make room for idea work
“And this is where I think Amazon has, and many of the tech giants have this key innovation, which is that they're starting to use artificial intelligence to minimize the amount of execution work, to make room for idea work, right?”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 20:58 How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
Oct 31, 2022 neutral
Insight
Narrative writing exposes logical gaps that PowerPoint slides allow hiding
“The thing about writing something down as opposed to putting it on a slide is you need to think things through, and I'll say this. I write for a living. It's the most painful thing. You know, it's a terrible decision as a career because it hurts. And the reaso…”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 16:03 How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
Oct 31, 2022 neutral
Insight
Amazon's workforce is polarized between one-year washouts and 15-year lifers
“And that's why you see a lot of employees who are there for, you know, a year and leave and a lot of employees who are there for 1015 years and not a lot of employees in the middle, because either you wash out or you become, you fall in love with it and you sa…”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 26:39 How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
Oct 31, 2022 positive
Insight
Bezos designed an idea-circulation culture rather than inventing everything himself
“There's this misconception that Bezos is this visionary that's come up with every idea that Amazon has and that his, you know, underlings have just gone ahead and executed for it. Actually, what he's done is built a culture that is meant to circulate the ideas…”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 14:47 How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
Oct 31, 2022 negative
Opinion
Amazon definitely took its demanding, workaholic corporate culture too far
“However, you know, they took it too far. There's no doubt about it. Amazon definitely took it too far.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 26:24 How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
Oct 31, 2022 positive
Insight
Day One mindset requires building without constraint from legacy revenue sources
“The most important thing about being a company on your first day is that you can come in and build what the market needs without any regard for your legacy business.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 6:34 How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
Aug 3, 2023 bullish
Opinion
AWS's Wood: Generative AI Is Too Early to Limit Foundation Model Creation
“Well, on the 81st model, I think you do need an 81st model right now. Like, it would be completely arbitrary to decide right now, at this point in time, that we need to limit the model or that we've got enough. There is so much opportunity. It is so early.”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 31:46 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Aug 3, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wood predicts generative AI will create multiple Amazon-sized companies
“And I think that there is going to be a wave of similarly Amazon Size companies that evolve out of the generative AI opportunity, generally. And so I think we're going to see multiple Amazon size organizations develop and grow over the next, who knows, 20 year…”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 17:53 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Aug 3, 2023 positive
Insight
Wood: Generative AI makes ML far more accessible by eliminating model training
“One of the super interesting things about generative AI is inherently because you're not training the models yourself, you're taking models from Amazon and Meta and a whole host of other stability, AI, and just building on top of them, ah, it makes machine lea…”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 4:29 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Aug 3, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Wood: Amazon Titan trained on public web data and licensed datasets
“Titan was trained on publicly available data. And. That's a very squishy phrase. It's very precise. Okay. And data which proprietary data that we had licensed specifically for the purpose of training.”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 41:41 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Aug 3, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wood admits Amazon employees already use AI to write six-page memos
“That ship has sailed, I can tell you.”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 44:23 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Aug 3, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Wood: Amazon's AI goal is pragmatic utility, not Artificial General Intelligence
“Others are talking about, well, our stated goal is that we want an artificially generally intelligent system. That is not our stated goal. Our stated goal is that we want to just be very pragmatic, meet customers where they're at today, and then provide capabi…”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 8:12 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Coulter: Ex-Amazonians often flame out at other companies and boomerang back
“I've seen a lot of Amazon people leave Amazon, go elsewhere, and then either flame out or just not love it and leave of their own accord. a lot of, you know, jumping around, a lot of boomeranging back to Amazon.”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 29:41 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Opinion
Coulter: Amazon's corporate culture makes overachievement impossible
“It attracts people who are used to just kicking ass at whatever they do and overachieving and then makes it impossible to overachieve. Like you're never really good enough for Amazon.”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 17:06 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Opinion
Coulter: Amazon's shopping experience is degrading under Andy Jassy
“What I'm concerned about is that I see a lot of attention to brass tacks, you know, Andy Jassy sweet spot kind of stuff, but like the shopping experience is, in my experience, it's degrading, you know, the product pages are hard to navigate. There's more and m…”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 8:39 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Coulter: Amazon's confusing UX was caused by under-resourcing, not malice
“Amazon, in my experience, is also vastly under-resourced when it came to designers and UX writers, and I found confusing navigation and confusing language all over the website during my tenure. That mostly happened because they had, you know, like coders or pr…”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 10:58 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Opinion
Coulter: Bezos picked a CEO for a bygone world
“I think it's possible that Jeff picked a CEO for a world that doesn't really exist anymore.”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 13:55 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coulter: It is possible that Jeff Bezos returns to run Amazon
“I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility. I, he's still on the board, of course, I could see him coming back. I don't think it's going to be like a Ryan Peterson scenario where he comes back and it's like, get out of here, Andy Jassy and take your tea…”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 53:31 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coulter: Amazon flags and manually reviews accounts for excessive returns
“There's definitely like, you get flagged and there's like, I think there's special people who review things and I don't know what the limit is, but yeah, absolutely.”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 45:44 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Coulter: Anticipated consumer backlash over Amazon Go surveillance never materialized
“And so when we built Amazon Go, my mind was full of every vicious fear people could have. You know, like, what if they poison our food? Amazon doesn't want us to cook at home anymore. And we prepared for all these eventualities. I mean, I wrote FAQs for the wo…”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 47:24 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Coulter: Multimillionaire Amazon executives work through the night out of fear
“I can tell you that Amazon, these people who are worth tens or scores of millions of dollars are working insanely hard. You know, they're emailing at four in the morning and they're working all night. These people are crazily driven. And the ones I got close e…”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 20:47 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Coulter: Average employee tenure at Amazon is now under two years
“The tenure, the average tenure is less than two years now.”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 18:11 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Opinion
Coulter: Amazon lost its scrappiness to bureaucratic bloat
“Got to the point where, you know, to get the VP review, you needed to move forward. You'd have to reschedule a meeting six times and it could get pushed out weeks and everything slowed down and there were many more layers and, you know, it's not the kind of sc…”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 37:58 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 positive
Opinion
Coulter: Jeff Wilke would have been the ideal Amazon CEO successor
“I was really surprised that Jeff Wilkie was not the successor. In my mind, he was, he would have been perfect. He had all that hardcore logistics and retail knowledge, and he also kind of got the soft stuff in a way that very few Amazon leaders did in my exper…”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 13:24 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Coulter: Flexport's executive purge was about eradicating the 'Amazon vibe'
“It felt like, oh, it's not just Dave that they're getting rid of because Ryan Peterson wants to come back. They're trying to get rid of a whole vibe. My thought was like, they just want this Amazon vibe out of there.”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 30:42 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Coulter: Andy Jassy lacks Bezos's manic inventive spark
“I think he's super smart. I actually think he has more emotional intelligence than, well, than Jeff did, or at least that he's willing to show, you know, more empathy. But I don't see that spark of almost manic Inventiveness in him. You know, he always struck …”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 6:45 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 neutral
Insight
Coulter: Companies want Amazon's DNA but not its aggressive culture
“I think that people, when they bring in Amazonians, they often do it because they do want some of that Amazon DNA in their company, but it doesn't mean they want to be, like, waterboarded with it, you know. You just arrive and change everything. It's more like…”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 28:21 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Sep 21, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coulter: Amazon Prime no longer guarantees two-day delivery
“Prime used to just mean two-day shipping, and now it means all kinds of things, but not necessarily two-day shipping.”
Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 1:55 A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
Oct 25, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Amazon Invested $1.25B in Anthropic With Options Up to $4B
“They positioned themselves a lot better with their big investment in Anthropic, right? Already 1.25 billion in Anthropic, potentially up to four billion investment in Anthropic, which is like this counterweight to open AI.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 13:12 Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
Nov 23, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz predicts Amazon will temporarily lead the AI arms race
“My perspective here is that Amazon will now become the everything store for AI models, and that is going to put it in the lead of the arms race. Does that mean it's going to win the AI arms race? I don't think so. We don't know yet, but is there going to be a …”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 8:26 AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Dec 14, 2023 bullish
Disclosure
Gelsinger: Intel aims to manufacture chips for Nvidia, AMD, and hyperscalers
“You know, we're also going to be a foundry. We're going to be the manufacturer for many of those chips as well. So we want to be the manufacturer for Nvidia, for AMD, for Google, for Amazon. We want to be their manufacturing partner, even if we're not using ou…”
Pat Gelsinger Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 4:36 Intel's CEO Shares His Plan To Win The AI Chip War — With Pat Gelsinger
Dec 14, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
Gelsinger: Intel, AMD, and Nvidia will be AI's three big merchant providers
“There's going to be those that build their own, you know, and that's what you see Amazon, Microsoft, Google are doing. They're going to say, hey, I'm going to own this and do this myself. And then there's going to be the general providers in the marketplace, a…”
Pat Gelsinger Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 5:20 Intel's CEO Shares His Plan To Win The AI Chip War — With Pat Gelsinger
Feb 15, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Amazon faces Google-like ad conflicts with conversational shopping
“For Amazon to do this hard, obviously, because they do rely on advertising revenue on amazon.com to keep amazon.com profitable, so they have, like, similar problems to Google there”
Aravind Srinivas Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 34:54 Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
Mar 6, 2024 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Petersen: Amazon only offers freight forwarding for goods sold on Amazon
“Amazon does not see global freight forwarding for brands unless they're shipping the product and selling it on Amazon. And so we just took a different, we don't compete with them in that regard. There's some overlap certainly in the fulfillment piece, but in t…”
Ryan Petersen Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 21:38 Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
Mar 6, 2024 negative
Opinion
Petersen: Amazon does not treat sellers as tier-one customers
“Amazon does not treat the seller on their platform as a tier one customer. Their job is to help the customer, the consumer at the end of the day.”
Ryan Petersen Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 17:35 Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
Mar 6, 2024 positive
Opinion
Petersen: Amazon is probably the best company in the world
“I still think it's like the best company in the world probably.”
Ryan Petersen Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 23:55 Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
Mar 6, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Petersen: Flexport Offers Better Fulfillment Proposition Than Amazon Logistics
“So if you want to say we compete with Amazon, I think we're a strictly better proposition other than the fact that we don't own amazon.com and have all the demand that that drives.”
Ryan Petersen Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 6:05 Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
Mar 6, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Petersen: Almost 10% of Flexport Deliveries Go to Amazon
“Well, I think we partner with Amazon a lot, too. I mean, we probably, like, almost 10% of our deliveries go to Amazon.”
Ryan Petersen Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 2:32 Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
Apr 20, 2024 negative
Opinion
Swisher: Andy Jassy Probably Does Not Know What to Do with Whole Foods
“I think he probably doesn't know what to do with Whole Foods. Like, what are we doing this for?”
Kara Swisher Apr 20, 2024 ▶ 24:07 Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
May 1, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Sivasubramanian: Trainium2 offers 4x faster training and 2x energy efficiency
“AWS actually, for instance, we have invested in technologies such as Trinium-II chips, which actually can deliver up to four X faster training. And, ah, also it is while improving energy efficiency up to two times, as an example.”
Swami Sivasubramanian May 1, 2024 ▶ 3:49 AWS VP of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian — GenAI's Growth Potential
Jul 10, 2024 positive
Disclosure
AWS's Matt Wood confirms Amazon completed its $4 billion Anthropic investment
“Yep, we've completed that investment, yep.”
Matt Wood Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 44:58 Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
Jul 10, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AWS's Wood predicts foundation AI models will consolidate to 12-24 major providers
“I think that there's not going to be hundreds of world model providers. I think that there's likely to be maybe a dozen, two dozen, something of that order of magnitude. I think that, you know, Anthropic will be one, Meta will be one, Amazon will be one, there…”
Matt Wood Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 41:18 Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
Jul 10, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Wood: AWS AI and Machine Learning Business Exceeds Multibillion-Dollar ARR
“Bedrock, which is the service that we make available to customers to build generative AI applications. That's one of our fastest growing services ever. And all up, AI machine learning at AWS is already a multi-billion dollar business. In terms of ARR.”
Matt Wood Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 5:52 Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
Sep 5, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Amazon has added hundreds of thousands of jobs since automating in 2015
“They've been implementing automation since 2015. By the way, they've grown their workforce by hundreds of thousands since.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 20:39 How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer
Oct 16, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brown: Retail pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens are going away
“All you have to do is look at a chart of CVS, which is in a 60% drawdown from a tie, or look at Walgreens Boots Alliance, which is in a 90% drawdown. These companies are going away.”
Josh Brown Oct 16, 2024 ▶ 9:10 Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
Oct 16, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Brown: Amazon pushed out its touchless tech lead and is closing stores
“The guy that developed the touchless technology for Amazon's retail was just pushed out of the company, and they are closing A lot of those Amazon go stores because there just didn't seem to be anything magical that made people want to go to them.”
Josh Brown Oct 16, 2024 ▶ 14:48 Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
Oct 23, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Link: Amazon trades cheaper than Apple at 32x forward earnings vs 35x
“Well, it is trading cheaper than Apple. It's a 32. Forward and apples at 35 times.”
Stephanie Link Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 47:31 The Apple Paradox, Trump’s Impact on Markets, NVIDIA Demand — With Dan Ives and Stephanie Link
Oct 23, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2029
Link: Amazon will deliver ~20% 5-year CAGR, beating Meta and Google
“And I think you're going to see a CAGR of about 20% for the next five years at this company versus Meta at 13% and versus Google at 12.8%.”
Stephanie Link Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 44:22 The Apple Paradox, Trump’s Impact on Markets, NVIDIA Demand — With Dan Ives and Stephanie Link
Oct 23, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Link: AWS and advertising will reach 31% of Amazon's revenue by 2030
“AWS Growing 19, 20% with 33% margins. You have advertising growing up low double digits with 50% margins, and collectively those two businesses are, right now, they are about 24% of total revenue. That's gonna get to 31% by the end of this decade”
Stephanie Link Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 43:54 The Apple Paradox, Trump’s Impact on Markets, NVIDIA Demand — With Dan Ives and Stephanie Link
Oct 23, 2024 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Link: Amazon will generate $48B in free cash flow in 2024
“They are gonna generate free cash flow this year of forty eight billion dollars, so let's just put that to bed right there.”
Stephanie Link Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 43:09 The Apple Paradox, Trump’s Impact on Markets, NVIDIA Demand — With Dan Ives and Stephanie Link
Oct 23, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Ives: Amazon risk/reward is a table pounder with 25-30% upside
“I mean, I think there's a stock that could be up 25, 30%, maybe call it five percent type down. The risk reward here is a table pounder in our opinion.”
Dan Ives Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 47:11 The Apple Paradox, Trump’s Impact on Markets, NVIDIA Demand — With Dan Ives and Stephanie Link
Nov 24, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Anthropic will be one of Amazon's best investments ever
“I think this is going to prove to be one of Amazon's best investments ever.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 24, 2024 ▶ 48:46 OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
Dec 5, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Garman: Andy Jassy's bureaucracy critique applied inside AWS too
“Yeah, I think it's across across Amazon. So it wasn't specific to the rest of Amazon. It was definitely inside of AWS too.”
Matt Garman Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 36:38 AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon's Big AI Chips Bet, Working With OpenAI, and Nuclear Energy
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Garman: Cloud Optimization Is Largely Finished, Funding AI and AWS Growth
“Customers, I think number one, a lot of them have been optimized, right? And there's only so much you can kind of squeeze into an Optimize place and customers are still looking for optimizations, but a lot of that work has been done and they're using some of t…”
Matt Garman Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 35:21 AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon's Big AI Chips Bet, Working With OpenAI, and Nuclear Energy
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Garman: AWS uses automated reasoning internally to verify IAM permission changes
“We actually use it internally to make sure that our permissioning system is actually, when you change permissions, that it's actually behaving as expected.”
Matt Garman Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 25:11 AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon's Big AI Chips Bet, Working With OpenAI, and Nuclear Energy
Jan 31, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Amazon pioneered using automated systems to negotiate with its fulfillment vendors
“When I was reporting on Amazon, I found that they were using automation systems to negotiate with the vendors who are supplying their fulfillment centers.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 17:45 Implementing AI In The Real World — With Kyndryl's Antoine Shagoury
Mar 5, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Panay: Alexa AI Re-Architecture Required Rebuilding Two Separate Stacks
“Once you put the vision together, you realize you need a full re-architecture, but you're not going to leave your customers out. So you're re-architecting pretty much two stacks at that point. One, what is classically known as Alexa to be awesome and come into…”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 5:53 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Panay: Amazon's Alexa launch event featured a live working product
“What makes you nervous in an event like that, you're not worried about the product working. I mean, six months ago, I would have worried about the product working, and I would have shown you more vision demos, like videos, but the product's working.”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 15:45 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025
What-if
Panay: Amazon Could Have Launched AI Faster Without Legacy Alexa Base
“If we started from zero customers, I think this is a different story. You can move a lot faster, we can solve problems, and then just add features as we go, if that makes sense. So maybe we just had a conversationalist, a pretty cool one, then we can add perso…”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 4:58 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rausch: Amazon tracks Alexa component latency in single-digit milliseconds
“We count in single milliseconds now in system components.”
Daniel Rausch Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 13:52 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Panos Panay: Alexa Plus will launch with a dedicated web interface
“And we haven't released the new Alexa app yet. It's coming with, if you get Alexa Plus, you get the Alexa app, the Alexa Plus app, as well as Alexa.com.”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 31:48 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025 neutral
Insight
Daniel Rausch: Making non-deterministic AI fast for simple instructions is hard
“Making a non-deterministic system fast that can respond in any way, gathers all the context, figures out legions of different things which experts to invoke. Making that system fast on something as simple as a instruction or, you know, is, is hard.”
Daniel Rausch Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 18:34 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Panay: Previous Alexa could not resolve contextual requests like 'play that song'
“Previously in Alexa, you couldn't say, play that song. It would look for a song called that.”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 13:13 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Panos Panay: No competitor comes close to Alexa's home understanding
“I don't think there's anyone close to be able to understand your home as Amazon, as Alexa.”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 27:59 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Panos Panay: Amazon will release Alexa Plus next month
“You know, we're finishing the product now. It's coming out next month, so we're pumped that we're through the event, and yeah, there's some relief, I would say.”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 0:41 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Panay: No other assistant currently executes agentic API service calls
“Getting down to calling a service, calling the right API, making the right partnership so that API is called to make it as simple as possible. It, it's I don't think it's been accomplished. I don't think you're seeing it out there anywhere connected to an assi…”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 34:02 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 5, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Panay: Screen-based Echo customers will get Alexa Plus preview first
“When we start rolling out preview, the first customers to get preview will be our screen-based customers because it's the best experience.”
Panos Panay Mar 5, 2025 ▶ 47:52 How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
Mar 14, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Albergotti: Apple is considering using Amazon's custom Trainium AI chips
“And they've got some other, you know, some other customers as well, like Databricks, Apple is considering it you know, poolside, which is like a kind of hot AI company.”
Reed Albergotti Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 56:29 Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
Mar 14, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Albergotti: Amazon will spend $100 billion on AI infrastructure in 2025
“Amazon is, is spending, you know, a hundred billion dollars this year on AI infrastructure, for instance, and Microsoft is not far behind that.”
Reed Albergotti Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 24:12 Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
Mar 14, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Albergotti: Anthropic agreed to train its next Claude model on Amazon Rainier
“They've, you know, they got Anthropic to, you know, train the next model of Claude on this, you know, on this Rainier cluster.”
Reed Albergotti Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 55:11 Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
Mar 14, 2025 negative
Opinion
Albergotti: Apple is fundamentally just an iPhone company unlike its diversified peers
“All the other big tech companies are kind of like doing everything now, right? They're like, you know, Meta is, is doing their own AI chip and spending billions of dollars to roll out these data centers. Sure. Apple, Apple is going to do that too, but I think …”
Reed Albergotti Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 10:27 Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
Mar 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Europe Represents Nearly a Quarter of Big Tech Revenue
“Apple sales in Europe 26% of total revenue. Meta's ad sales in Europe, 23% total revenue. Amazon's international sales 23% of total revenue.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 29, 2025 ▶ 48:15 OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Apr 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kurian: Competitors attack Google because their own AI models are terrible
“If you don't have your own model, or you have a model of your own, but it's terrible, naturally you're going to say something like that.”
Thomas Kurian Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 9:49 Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
Apr 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roy: OpenAI o3 Repeated Walmart 23 Times in Top Retailers Query
“However, this morning I asked, and I asked from the deep, deep research side, what are the top 150 retailers in the U.S. By revenue in 2024? Seemingly straightforward query. It returned Walmart 23 times and Amazon 36 times In this list.”
Ranjan Roy Apr 19, 2025 ▶ 7:35 Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
Apr 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amazon Will Not Display Tariff Charges on Listings or Amazon Haul
“You know, it's, this is an incredibly dynamic situation, and never and always are difficult questions, but this was considered for our ultra-low-cost store alone, Amazon Hall. It was considered. It was not approved. It's not happening. It was not considered fo…”
Jamil Ghani Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 3:05 Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
Apr 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amazon Has Seen No Material Tariff Impact on Consumer Spending Yet
“Yeah, we haven't seen anything material in the numbers as yet. There's been sort of like variations that are hard to tell from, you know, like from just normal variations you'd see in the business.”
Jamil Ghani Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 12:26 Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
Apr 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Alexa Operates Across 500 to 600 Million Active Devices Globally
“It's an incredibly significant, you know, rethink and re-architecture of a service enjoyed by, you know, 506 hundred million Devices around the world.”
Jamil Ghani Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 16:45 Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
Apr 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Amazon Uses Anthropic Models For Its Retail Stores Business
“We work very closely with Anthropic on a variety of different parts of our business. Obviously it was highlighted in the Alexa plus event, but we're working with Anthropic on other parts of the store's business and other parts of the business as well. So like …”
Jamil Ghani Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 48:41 Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
Apr 30, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Amazon Will Complete Alexa Plus Rollout Within Months, Not Next Year
“I don't have a specific date to offer you today because we're adjusting the timelines and, you know according to the rollout. But in the, in its months, it's not next year.”
Jamil Ghani Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 17:50 Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
Apr 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Amazon Has Finally Grown Into Its Pandemic-Era Warehouse Capacity
“The reality is while we've right-sized some parts of that supply chain footprint on the margin, we've largely grown our business into that capacity, right?”
Jamil Ghani Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 42:19 Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
Apr 30, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Amazon Delivered 9 Billion Items Same-Day or Next-Day Last Year
“Last year we delivered nine billion items same day or next day. Nine billion, right? It is, you know, in delivery fees alone, US, prime members last year saved 500 dollars, right?”
Jamil Ghani Apr 30, 2025 ▶ 31:52 Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
May 5, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: 60% of Amazon sales come from third-party merchants
“60% of the company's e-commerce sales came from third-party merchants? Okay. Come from third-party merchants that get many of their products from China and then sell on Amazon's website.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 5, 2025 ▶ 47:41 The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
Jun 3, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Amazon AI implementation leads to smaller developer teams
“Amazon, for instance, is a company that has smaller teams responsible for the same amount of code. Just with like less people to do it.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 4:30 Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
Jun 11, 2025 negative
Opinion
Siegler: Apple cannot acquire Anthropic due to Amazon and Google stakes
“I don't think that Apple can buy anthropic just because of like the weird ownership now of Amazon and Google owning so much of that company, I think it would be very hard to see how they could possibly do that. And it would just cost, you know, a hundred billi…”
M.G. Siegler Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 37:53 What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler
Jun 11, 2025 bearish
Insight
Siegler: Retrofitting Old Voice Assistants With GenAI Is Harder Than Expected
“It's just a lot harder to sort of go back and try to shove this new technology into that old technology, even though on a surface level, they seem like they're similar. It seems like, you know, behind the scenes, they're not similar at all. And in fact, there'…”
M.G. Siegler Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 13:47 What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler
Jun 11, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Siegler: Apple must rethink Siri and AI almost from scratch
“They're just sort of not talking about it because they literally can't right now because they had to rejigger the whole team. They have to sort of, if not completely start over from scratch, at least sort of look at everything from, you know, starting over fro…”
M.G. Siegler Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 10:03 What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler
Jun 23, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Amazon more likely to automate warehouse labor than corporate staff
“I think he's talking to headquarters employees here, but I think it's still a better chance that you'll get like robots with better dexterity that replace people in the fulfillment centers versus reducing workforce.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 32:15 OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
Jul 11, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Petersen: US Amazon sellers demand ban on foreign importers of record
“You can import goods as a foreign company with no legal status in the United States other than what's called a foreign importer of record or a non-resident importer. There's a wide, there's a huge demand amongst the Amazon seller community, the American compan…”
Ryan Petersen Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 43:14 Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen
Jul 11, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Petersen: Temu reached 25% of Amazon's scale within five years
“That's what Letimu, Get to 25% of Amazon's scale in five years is that they skip all that fulfillment center infrastructure.”
Ryan Petersen Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 42:23 Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen
Jul 11, 2025 positive
Opinion
Petersen: Ending de minimis benefits Amazon and Walmart against cross-border competitors
“For the de minimis thing in particular, I think Amazon's better off with de minimis not existing. Because de minimis is shipping direct from China to the U.S. Consumer. It skips their fulfillment network. Which is where they put all the capex and huge competit…”
Ryan Petersen Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 41:55 Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen
Jul 23, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amazon is spending $105B in capex for $5B AI revenue
“There's an analyst, I was quoted by Laura Brattner at Yahoo Finance, who said that he only thinks that Amazon is going to make five billion dollars in revenue, again, not profit, this year on AI. They are spending one hundred and five billion dollars in capita…”
Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 2:21 Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Jul 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amodei: Anthropic's data center scale rivals any AI competitor
“And I would also say, if you look at the size of the data centers that we're building with, for example, Amazon I don't think our data center scaling is substantially smaller than that of any of the other companies in the space.”
Dario Amodei Jul 30, 2025 ▶ 17:08 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Anthropic capped Big Tech investor ownership in fundraising documents
“Famously Anthropic, you know, apparently built into their fundraising documents that Those companies can only own up to a certain threshold, because they didn't want to be beholden”
M.G. Siegler Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 33:56 Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
Aug 4, 2025 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Siegler: Google and Amazon combined own just north of 36% of Anthropic
“Google and Amazon combined, I believe if my math is correct from all these court documents that I sort of went through, but I believe it's roughly correct that I think them combined, those two combined own something just north of 36%.”
M.G. Siegler Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 37:23 Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amazon successfully used manual-referencing LLMs to debug fulfillment centers without hallucinations
“We use large language models at Amazon to help debug things in our fulfillment centers. And it was very successful in those areas, but you still have, it references the manuals directly so you can avoid hallucination. You can see what it actually, you know, fo…”
Bill Vass Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 27:17 Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
Sep 10, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Crowdsourced data from millions of users gives Tesla a major autonomy lead
“Remember, Tesla has this advantage very much like the Echo devices at Amazon, where they're able to crowdsource training from the users. So basically, they're learning and training their model based on all the millions of people driving Teslas every day. That'…”
Bill Vass Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 42:00 Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Amazon machine learning models achieved 98% accuracy identifying cancer from scans
“At Amazon, we did a lot of like cancer identification from MRIs and CAT scans. And, you know, the ML was about 98% accurate, which is tremendously good.”
Bill Vass Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 23:57 Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jeff Bezos believed two redundant systems were better than zero at Amazon
“Jeff Bezos at Amazon used to have this saying that two is better than zero. So he, we would have redundant systems at Amazon, but then work to consolidate them over time.”
Bill Vass Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 3:08 Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
Sep 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
The US government lacks sufficient customer obsession in delivering citizen services
“Customer obsession is one of my favorites at Amazon. I don't think the government is as customer obsessed as it should be, and they need to be thinking about that in citizen services. And I think that's an area that, that, that could be improved.”
Bill Vass Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 36:31 Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
Sep 18, 2025 positive
Opinion
Levie: Apple and Amazon Can Still Catch Up in AI
“The companies just mentioned, like, I don't think the, those spaces have been so utterly disrupted that, that that they can't catch up once they land on a final architecture.”
Aaron Levie Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 26:49 Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie
Oct 13, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Kantrowitz: Amazon's Panos Panay says Alexa Plus rolls out broadly by October end
“But I did speak with Panos Panay, the head of devices and services of at Amazon. And he said by the end of October, everybody should have it. So no more early access.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 48:06 AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
Oct 23, 2025
Insight
Panay: Startups do not build faster than incumbents, they just start from zero
“It doesn't mean they build it quicker. It just, they don't, You know, you start from zero and you build up, you know, versus starting from hundreds of millions and handing it over. I think that's just reality.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 13:39 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025
Insight
Panay: New form factors shift specific jobs rather than killing legacy devices
“What happens is the job moves, the appropriate job moves from device to device to device.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 35:07 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 negative
Insight
Panay: Changing products without customer request destroys trust overnight
“You lose trust with the customer. You lose it overnight, Alex, like at a level that they don't come back. You know, they didn't, if they didn't ask for it, and even if they did and you didn't give them what they wanted, you lose trust, and that's such a big de…”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 7:00 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Panay: Over 10 million people currently have early access to Alexa Plus
“Anyone who wants access we're giving access over ten million people have access right now.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 1:12 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Panay: Amazon cancels plenty of late-stage devices before shipping
“There are plenty of devices that get towards the end that don't make it to the shipping floor.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 42:39 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025
Insight
Panay: Product teams that please every user have not pushed innovation far enough
“If every single person was happy with what you built, I promise you didn't push it far enough. I promise you just did not. But if everybody's pissed at you definitely pushed it too far, you know, and so you're, and so you have to find a little bit of that bala…”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 19:38 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Amazon Announces Alexa Integration With Oura Ring
“Yesterday, we announced an integration with Aura for wellness”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 37:32 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Panay: Alexa Plus will work on 97% of existing home devices
“And while it will work on 97% of devices out there right now in people's homes, we still want to do it in a way where when we're, when we switch people over because they choose to, that they feel great about it.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 2:00 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Panay: No other AI assistant coordinates 7,000 experts across hundreds of APIs
“Like, there's not, there's no other agent out there or kind of assistant that's using, you know, Tens and tens, 7000, I won't give you the amount of experts, but those experts also, all of them looking across, calling hundreds and hundreds of APIs and being ab…”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 14:00 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Panay: Alexa Plus usage spikes after users try agentic features once or twice
“Once you engage it once or twice, the usage spikes.”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 17:48 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 23, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Panay: Amazon will roll out Alexa Plus to everybody by late October
“End of October, though, just so you know where it's at, we're going to be rolling it out to everybody. If you buy a new Echo device, we launched four new Echo devices yesterday. We're pretty pumped about it, or I'm pretty pumped about it, maybe. But all those …”
Panos Panay Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 2:20 Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
Oct 27, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roy: Automated picking robotics will dominate fulfillment centers in 10 years
“And I, to me, there's no doubt that this is what a fulfillment center will look like 10 years from now.”
Ranjan Roy Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 34:00 OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
Oct 27, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2028
Kantrowitz: Amazon will achieve 75% automation across fulfillment centers
“I think Amazon's going to accomplish this goal. I think they're going to get to that 75% automation, and I think that is going to be, you know, I don't know, I think it's going to be a clear problem.”
Alex Kantrowitz Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 40:41 OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
Nov 6, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: OpenAI signed a $38 billion compute deal with Amazon
“OpenAI signs thirty-eight billion dollar compute deal with Amazon, partnering with the cloud leader for the first time. OpenAI has signed this deal. It is the first contract with the leader in cloud infrastructure, and the latest sign that OpenAI is no longer …”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 6, 2025 ▶ 41:53 OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
Nov 10, 2025 negative
Insight
Kantrowitz: Agentic AI browsers make the entire web the 'everything store'
“The agentic stuff flips the everything store completely on its head, because instead of the everything store, you just type one more query in, and now the entire web is the everything store inside of the Comet browser.”
Alex Kantrowitz Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 46:59 OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
Nov 17, 2025 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave
“OpenAI promised me three hundred billion. They also promised Microsoft two hundred billion, Amazon thirty eight billion, CoreWeave twenty five billion. In total, 1.4 trillion dollars.”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 9:52 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 17, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Luria: Three-year GPU depreciation would drastically cut Oracle and CoreWeave profits
“If you told Amazon and Microsoft, and certainly if you told companies like Oracle and CoreWeave, no, no, no, no. These chips will only generate meaningful revenue for three years. Their profitability would decline very dramatically. So again, from Microsoft, A…”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 22:25 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Opinion
Luria: Hyperscaler AI capex is sound because balance sheets back it
“The healthy behavior are reasonable, thoughtful business leaders like the ones at Microsoft, Amazon, and Google that are making sound investments in growing the capacity to deliver AI. And the reason they can make sound investments is that they have all the cu…”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 3:45 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Dec 23, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cramer: Amazon will overcome current stall despite investor dislike
“I think they're going to figure it out, but they are stalled right now, and people don't like the stock at all.”
Jim Cramer Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 8:28 CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
Dec 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Amazon built an internal GPT-like AI tool called Cedric
“We have some reporting coming out that they have this AI tool inside the company called Cedric, and it's like their version of GPT.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 10:20 CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
Dec 24, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Amazon is considering a $10B investment into OpenAI
“Amazon's eyeing this ten billion dollar investment into open AI, which is fascinating because they already have many billions in Anthropoc.”
Alex Kantrowitz Dec 24, 2025 ▶ 23:06 2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
Jan 7, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Venturo: Hyperscalers ran NVIDIA K80 fleets for 10 years before retiring them
“Last year is when we saw let's call it the hyperscalers that were around in the twenty-tenths, so Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, finally retire their NVIDIA K-eighty fleets, and the K-eighty was a GPU that was introduced in 2014. So it's, it was active in thei…”
Brian Venturo Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 42:16 Coreweave: AI Bubble Poster Child Or The Next Tech Giant? — With Michael Intrator and Brian Venturo
Jan 13, 2026 negative
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Meta lack standout AI products
“What standout product does AI product does Microsoft have outside of selling AI services from Azure? What standout product does Amazon, AI product does Amazon have outside of selling some AI with AWS. What standout AI product does Apple have? We both know that…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 36:08 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Jan 13, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Siegler: OpenAI's product team and strategy have outperformed all AI rivals
“I do think like Sam and the open AI product team and strategy has done a better job than anyone else. You and I have talked about this a lot on AI. To date, I think Google has been catching up a bit and I think some of the others, as you know, Amazon and other…”
M.G. Siegler Jan 13, 2026 ▶ 22:39 AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taylor: AI is in a bubble, but generational companies will emerge
“I think there'll be a period of consolidation. Well, that was always my joke. Your perspective on the dot-com bubble is very different if you went all in on buy.com versus amazon.com. And so you're gonna have some companies go out of business. I think more lik…”
Bret Taylor Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 55:57 Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
Feb 2, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2027
Morris: Amazon Will Likely Execute Another Mass Layoff Within 12 Months
“I know the HR chief is trying to calm everyone down by saying this is not the new normal, but I would be very surprised as if this is the last mass layoff as Amazon we see in the next 12 months.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 43:32 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
Feb 3, 2026 bearish
Insight
Siegler: Microsoft and Amazon back multiple AI labs to stop Google
“I think these other major cloud players, at least the ones who have the rival clouds, specifically Microsoft and Amazon realize that yeah, they probably need to align around basically anyone who's not Google, right? They don't necessarily care if it, I mean, t…”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 35:58 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Feb 9, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: AWS grew 24% while Amazon guided to $200B CapEx
“AWS went up 24% in the fourth quarter, which is kind of astounding. But they said they were gonna spend two hundred billion dollars in CapEx. A 60% increase from last year and far above Wall Street expectations, obviously.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 55:43 Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
Feb 9, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Roy: Agentic commerce threatens Amazon's core growth narrative
“Their advertising business has grown tremendously, but like, they're especially, I think, like, agentic commerce presents a threat, whatever it's gonna look like. Maybe they'll, Rufus, actually, I've been using a lot more, I do find pretty good, but like, I th…”
Ranjan Roy Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 56:45 Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Amazon experienced outages after an AI agent deleted its files
“There was just the story in the FT that Amazon had lots of had outages because The agent was like, you know what I'm going to do to fix this problem? Just erase everything.”
Alex Kantrowitz Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 41:41 OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
Mar 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Amazon is investing $50B in OpenAI across two tranches
“Fifty billion dollars. Yes. It's over like two tranches. It sounds like, you know, 15 and then 35, but still fifty billion dollars that, that Amazon is investing”
M.G. Siegler Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 49:51 Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Opinion
Pentagon cannot easily replace Anthropic due to Palantir and Amazon integrations
“The fact that Palantir and then Amazon obviously, and a bunch of others have used Anthropic services, like maybe the government just wasn't savvy enough to know just how integrated Anthropic itself was and that they can't just, again, like we were talking abou…”
M.G. Siegler Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 19:18 Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Amazon makes all its retail profit from advertising
“Where are they making most of their profit on the retail side? Or shall I say all their profit on the retail side? It's advertising. And that goes away. If you, even if you're able to do this well, if one click fulfillment, that's the least Profitable part of …”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 14:37 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 9, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: OpenAI will be the fastest-growing company ever
“Opening eyes is going to be the fastest growing company ever, so you probably do want a stake of that if you're a company with the means to invest, and Amazon certainly had the money to do it.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 15:40 AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
Mar 16, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Amazon summons engineers to investigate outages linked to AI coding tools
“Amazon's e-commerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a deep dive into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. The AI, the online retail giant has said there has been a trend of inc…”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 40:40 AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
Mar 16, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ranjan Roy: Rushed AI coding mandates will cause more enterprise software outages
“Just letting, and almost forcing everyone to rapidly adopt versus actually making them understand how to use these tools, I think becomes so much more important, and we're definitely gonna see more instances like this.”
Ranjan Roy Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 42:19 AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
Mar 18, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sorkin: AI Faces Potential Dot-Com-Style Bubble And Bust Timing Mismatch
“The bigger question is whether there's going to be like a timing mismatch, that there's going to be some period of time. Same way, by the way, we had a dot com bubble and bust where the economics didn't match the investments at that time. Now, Amazon is still …”
Andrew Ross Sorkin Mar 18, 2026 ▶ 40:09 Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Microsoft may sue OpenAI over Amazon investment, Reuters reports
“So there's reporting from Reuters that Microsoft may sue OpenAI over their fifty billion dollar investment from Amazon, and because it could violate the exclusive cloud agreement that they had they had set a number of years ago that, like, all OpenAI products …”
Ranjan Roy Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 11:08 OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Anthropic previews Mythos model to around 50 critical infrastructure organizations
“The company is making a preview model of its new AI model called Mythos, available to about 50 companies and organizations that maintain critical infrastructure, including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, and the Linux Foundation.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 1:59 Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
Apr 15, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Anthropic's defense models are hosted on Amazon's government cloud
“Anthropics models were hosted On Amazon's cloud. Their government cloud. And so they upload the weights, weights to the model, and then you use it through Amazon.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 41:42 The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
Apr 20, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Gemini and Claude were trained on TPUs and Trainium, not NVIDIA
“If you look at the TPU, which is the accelerator that Google has been, has put out and Tranium, which is Amazon's version of it you know, two of the top three models in the world, Claude and Gemini were trained on it”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 2:49 Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
May 4, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
AWS revenue grew 28 percent after years of slower growth
“AWS, by the way, stuck in the 17, 18% growth rate range for the past few years grew 28%.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 4, 2026 ▶ 41:16 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
May 5, 2026 positive
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Alexa Plus is the best assistant among major tech competitors
“I think Alexa plus is the best of the bunch.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 5, 2026 ▶ 30:27 Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
May 5, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Siegler: Amazon and Google Guide Toward $190 Billion in Annual CapEx
“Amazon and Google are, I think are both guiding towards a hundred and ninety billion now. and that's, this gets updated every single quarter. So they very well could spend well over two hundred billion for what ends up being the year, and Microsoft will be ri…”
M.G. Siegler May 5, 2026 ▶ 5:25 Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
May 5, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Amazon Nova Foundation Model Has Gained Zero Traction
“Amazon Nova has gone nowhere. Most people don't even realize that Amazon has a foundational model.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 5, 2026 ▶ 14:13 Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
Jun 2, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Roy: Alphabet and Amazon Profits Rely Heavily on Anthropic Paper Markups
“Last quarter Alphabet, parent company, Google reported 62.6 billion dollars in profit. Google is a cash machine. They always have been. 28.7 billion of that was a paper markup on Anthropic. Amazon, 30.3 billion in profit. 16.8 billion, same Anthropic paper gai…”
Ranjan Roy Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 30:15 Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
Jun 8, 2026 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: AI agent landscape will fragment across multiple walled-garden tools
“I worry that we're going to not get a seamless move into like a one single place where we can do all of this, like the sort of the pie in the sky version that you're talking about, where there's one tool, but instead we have to use like Three or four different…”
M.G. Siegler Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 27:32 Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
Jun 28, 2026
Assertion Supported
Amazon hosts Anthropic's AI models across classified government cloud environments
“Amazon hosts Anthropics models in the, in what they call bedrock. This includes in all of the classified spaces. So if the NSA is using Anthropics models. It is running in AWS secret cloud or top secret cloud.”
Alex Stamos Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 0:26 AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos
Jun 29, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
SpaceX Generates $18.7 Billion in Revenue but Loses $4 Billion
“And remember, this is a company with an 18.7 billion dollars of revenue total. I mean, Amazon, it surpassed its market cap. Amazon has seven hundred fifty billion dollars in revenue. Like this is a company that's losing four billion dollars.”
Ranjan Roy Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 41:01 Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
Jul 10, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gardizy: Major NVIDIA customers are actively working to adopt alternative chips
“Every single company that buys NVIDIA chips and is spending a lot of money on NVIDIA chips is trying really hard to make these other, other chips work, whether it's in-house chips from Google or Amazon or even in OpenAI's case and potentially Anthropik's case.”
Anissa Gardizy Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 8:21 Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode
Jul 20, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Amazon Replaced Vendor Managers with AI 'Hands Off the Wheel' System
“And they have this program called Hands Off the Wheel, where they basically took past purchase data, things like what people bought, and what zip codes, and what season, and predicted how to stock their fulfillment centers with what products, when, and at what…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 20, 2026 ▶ 0:31 Inside The Rise of Physical AI — With Amir Khoshniyati
Aug 5, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Cahn: Amazon faces a 'heads I lose, tails I lose' dilemma in AI
“In some ways I worry for Amazon, which is like, Heads I lose, tails I lose. It's like, if this all goes well and AGI happens, they're not well positioned for that. And then if it doesn't happen, they're kind of in the bath with everybody else on the capex that…”
David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 53:16 How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
Aug 10, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegler: OpenAI and Anthropic will eventually build their own clouds
“Even if down the road, like those two actually do make it out and you know, break out on their own and become two of the new you know, tech behemoths that are public companies, they will eventually obviously just have their own clouds. They're not going to be,…”
M.G. Siegler Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 43:39 Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
Aug 10, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Siegler: Google and Amazon Depreciate Some Facilities Over 40 Years
“Amazon and Google in some cases are far longer. I think Google has some that are 40 years. Amazon might too.”
M.G. Siegler Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 38:48 Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.