The Ledger
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Coogan: The Information Reported Amazon's Jassy Raised AI Jailbreak Concerns With White House
“Then the information reported that Andy Jassy at Amazon had raised concerns with the senior administration officials about jailbreaking. The risk of jailbreaking fable and getting access to all of Anthropic.”
Apple Was the Driving Force Behind Amazon's Globalstar Acquisition
“Apple clearly agrees, because they are not only declining to work with SpaceX, I actually think they were the driving force in this global star deal.”
Cuban: Foreign Sellers Have Structural Cost and IP Advantages on Amazon
“Because any, whether it's China or Vietnam, any country, if you're outside the United States, you immediately have a cost advantage, not the manufacturing, but just from an IP, from a, and from an Amazon cost perspective.”
O'Laughlin: Amazon's gigawatt project is on track while competitors face delays
“Every other gigawatt project is essentially delayed and they're going to be like ish on time.”
O'Laughlin: Amazon will run out of Trainium and spend heavily on Nvidia
“I think they're gonna run out of Tranium, and the answer is, like, what's the biggest amount of supply chain that's, like, locked up? It's NVIDIA.”
O'Laughlin: Amazon will spend $200B in CapEx by year-end
“I think at the end of the year, they're gonna be like, yeah, they spent two hundred billion.”
Cohen: Copying Chewy's expanded catalog failed and cost GameStop shareholders heavily
“I hired a bunch of fancy people from both Amazon and Chewy, and we expanded the catalog, and we added a bunch of product, and most of that product didn't sell, and we ended up marking it down and taking a big hit, and it cost shareholders a lot of money, becau…”
Kovacevich: FTC and DOJ divided Big Tech targets rather than subject matter
“What happened was about six years ago, the FTC and the Justice Department, they share responsibility for antitrust. They got together and they said, they basically struck a deal and they said, okay, FTC, you get Meta and Amazon and DOJ, you get Google and Appl…”
Columbia suspended Roy Lee for a year after his Amazon interview stunt
“Amazon reported me to Columbia. Amazon is mad. Columbia is mad. And this ends up being a spat that I sort of publicize on my Twitter. It becomes this big spectacle and I eventually get kicked out of Columbia or suspended for a year. And I'm blacklisted from mo…”
Roy Lee: Amazon interview stunt was aimed at viral distribution, not employment
“I was never intending on taking the job at Amazon. The impetus for everything was I did a bunch of legal questions thinking that I would work at a big tech company one day. I really hated it. And at a certain point I kind of just thought I really want to build…”
Lessin: MrBeast spent more on his Amazon show than his $100M deal
“Like, you know, the, you know, everyone's excited that he gets a hundred million dollar Amazon contract, but then he spends more than that on the show, right?”
Jordy: Faster software creation threatens Salesforce more than it does Amazon
“Software development timelines are changing so dramatically. It's becoming so much faster and cheaper to make software that threatens a company like Salesforce in a way that Amazon, which is Selling physical products, selling content, selling, you know, they h…”
Jordy: Anthropic's AI safety focus was the wrong short-term bet
“Anthropic made a clear bet around AI safety and a lot of other firms ignored that deep seek one of them. And so that seems to be in the short term, the wrong bet to make.”
Coogan: Self-Hosting DeepSeek Carries Far Less Security Risk Than TikTok
“I just, this is a different scenario because if you just download the Git repo for deep seek and you host it on Amazon or, you know, Google cloud or whatever, like there's no data feeding back. Like you're not helping them improve the model at all. Like that's…”
Gerstner: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all token constrained
“Google was token constrained. They said if we had more tokens, we'd be able to generate more revenue. Same for Amazon, same for Microsoft, same from OpenAI, same from Anthropic.”
Midha: Amazon's collectibles business has been flat for six years
“Amazon's used and collect, collectibles business has been flat for six years. They tried renewed, they tried collectibles, they tried trade-in, none of it's still.”
Jalali: SALT & STONE is the best-selling deodorant brand on Amazon
“We're the best selling deodorant on Amazon.”
Hays: OpenAI raised $110B round from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank
“OpenAI raised a hundred and ten billion dollar round of funding from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank.”
Thinking Machines could exit for $30B to $60B within two years
“Thinking machines could probably exit somewhere at between 30 and 60 today. Who has that money? I don't know. Maybe NVIDIA buys them or something. At least at some point over the next two years. I think the most likely acquirers would probably be Microsoft, Ap…”
Coogan: Amazon lags in AI partnerships and frontier model labs
“Amazon's just not there either on the partnership side or on the core like training frontier lab side.”
McLaughlin: AI product selection tools will outsmart human buyers within two years
“I do think there's gonna be this, like, really, really cool world that we move into the next, like, year or two here, whereas our tools for selecting, like, products, like, become, like, super, super smart, right? Like, way smarter than me. Like, they're gonna…”
Jordy: Jeff Bezos returning to Amazon would cause a biblical stock pop
“If Bezos did join the company, the pop would be biblical.”
Coogan: Amazon's AI narrative is weaker because Jeff Bezos stepped down
“Whereas Amazon, they have deals with Anthropic. They host a lot of stuff. Obviously there's Alexa and there's AI in their products, but it's not as strong of a narrative. And a lot of it comes from the fact that they're no, they're kind of no longer in founder…”
Amazon Launched Haul Solely to Exploit the De Minimis Loophole
“The only reason that Amazon would do this is because they're interested in leveraging the loophole.”
Amazon Acquires Satellite Operator Globalstar in $10.8 Billion Deal
“Amazon's buying satellite operator Global Star in a deal that The company's estimated at about 10.8 billion seeking to build a business connecting consumer smartphones with satellite internet connections.”
Amazon Agrees to Power iPhone and Apple Watch Satellite Services
“Amazon said Tuesday that it agreed to a deal with Apple to power satellite services for its iPhone and Apple Watch and to work together on future satellite services using LEO's growing network.”
Kim: Nvidia and hyperscalers won't switch to Arm's standalone server CPUs
“I don't really expect the major hyperscalers like Amazon to switch to ARM's, you know product offering. They have their own. And same with NVIDIA. They have their own ARM CPU that they're gonna incorporate and sell.”
Coogan: Anthropic cloud inference costs ran 23% over projections
“Amir says that Anthropix inference costs on Google and Amazon servers were 23% higher than the company, ah, projected.”
Amazon buys the first new American-produced copper in over a decade
“Amazon's buying the first new copper produced in America in over a decade.”
Coogan: Amazon has not signed an agentic commerce deal with OpenAI
“Amazon has not done a deal yet with OpenAI for the agentic commerce thing.”
Cohen: Vertical category focus beats broad tech giants without first-mover advantage
“You don't necessarily have to be first to the game in order to be successful. Amazon was first to the game, but we focused on the category, and we were successful, and so it's kind of what's interesting in technology in general, is like, you have these technol…”
Coogan: Anthropic's next major cluster will run on Amazon
“I believe Anthropic is pretty tightly hitched to Amazon, and I think the next big cluster from Anthropic will be powered by Amazon for the most part”
Hays: Amazon acquired Bee, an always-listening smart bracelet maker
“Amazon acquired a company it got announced this week called B, which is a bracelet after, after all, everything they faced with Siri, Siri's listening to me. The B band just listens to you all day long. Every single conversation. Everything.”
Warner: Industrial robots almost never fail for technically complex reasons
“Robots work great in industry. 99% of the time they work wonderfully. Like if you think about an Amazon warehouse, there's a bunch of little Roombas that roll around and move the carts and stuff. And you know, on occasion, probably one percent of the time thes…”
Industrial Robots Usually Fail Due to Trivial Physical Blockages
“Robots work great in industry. 99% of the time they work wonderfully. Like if you think about an Amazon warehouse, there's a bunch of little Roombas that roll around and move the carts and stuff. And you know, on occasion, probably one percent of the time, the…”
Hays: Consumer-Aligned AI Search Threatens Google and Amazon's Ad Model
“It's obviously a threat to Google and to Amazon and other marketplaces when I'm going there and I'm saying, this is what I want to buy. Like help me buy the best version. And it can be more aligned with my interests than an ads based business model.”
Jordy: Amazon's third-party marketplace has become entirely pay-to-play for sellers
“Amazon has gotten optimized and optimized and optimized, and they've just kept eating into the profits of the sellers on their platform. It's basically completely pay to play now. It's really hard to drive sales without spending a huge amount of your sales of …”
Coogan: Amazon is spending $100 billion on CapEx in 2025
“They're spending a hundred billion dollars in capex this year as part of a push to build generative AI services.”
Jordy: Amazon allowed a carbon copy of portfolio company LMNT to sell
“One of my portfolio companies, Element, LMNT, you know, had a copycat product on the platform that was the exact packaging, different name, but a carbon copy of the product, and Amazon let it run up to, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands of sales.”
Coogan: True informational alpha comes from rare, non-digitized, out-of-print books
“The biggest bull signal is when you're searching someone on the Wikipedia page, you go to the sources, it's some ISBN number, you go to Amazon, 2000 dollar book won't ship to you in a month because it's out of stock. You got to find some library that has it in…”
Ferrara: Drake partnered with Amazon to distribute all of his merchandise
“He's, this is his actual plot to take over Amazon music as a distribution platform, but he's working with Amazon to sell all of his merch and all of his goods through their storefront and basically facilitate all their distribute distribution through there.”