On Thursday, July 30, Amazon Inc.(AMZN) released its Q2 2026 earnings report. Given its crucial position as a Mag 7 mega-cap straddling both tech and e-commerce, Amazon's earnings reports are usually closely watched by the broader investing community.

This earnings season is showing that investors want proof AI investments can generate meaningful returns, according to Stephanie Walter of HyperFrame Research. She says this explains the positive reaction to Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), and Alphabet (GOOGL), while Meta Platforms (META) has not shown a path to monetization of A.I.

Record market-cap moves for the tech giants end in a 1% Nasdaq gain.

Amazon (AMZN) stock is ripping higher on Friday after the e-commerce and cloud computing giant delivered a blockbuster Q2 report that comfortably exceeded Wall Street's expectations.

U.S. stocks settled higher as Amazon kept the artificial-intelligence recovery rolling.

Plus, Tesla considers sale of China business and Anthropic discloses that its software hacked three companies.

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Amazon (AMZN) is rallying after strong earnings, and CFRA's Arun Sundaram says investors are finally becoming comfortable with the company's massive A.I. capital spending.

Dan Ives breaks down his biggest takeaways from this week's Big Tech earnings, arguing that AI is still in the "third inning" with only about 5% of companies currently paying for AI adoption. He explains why earnings season continues to validate the long-term AI growth story, weighs the market's reaction to the results, and analyzes the post-earnings rallies in Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN).