Amazon began blocking Meta's Muse agent from shopping on its site Sunday night, citing its conditions of use. Shopify's president says agent-driven orders carry the same economics as ordinary online store orders.

Amazon's chief sustainability officer said Tuesday the company doesn't know how it will achieve its goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2040.

Meta's new Muse AI personal agent is garnering excitement and shows signs of becoming a hit, but Amazon has blocked the app from its site. The early success of Muse, which rocketed to the top of Apple's App store, has helped Meta build momentum ahead of Meta Connect, its annual developer conference.

Amazon owns a larger stake in Anthropic. Both Amazon and Alphabet supply computing power to the AI company.

McDonald's plans to create its own media network to display third-party businesses' ads. Its company-owned U.S. restaurants have begun displaying ads on its digital drive-thru order boards.

Elon Musk has spent years trying to turn xAI‘s social media platform X, owned by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX), into an "everything app." Now Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) may be chasing the same destination from a completely different starting point.

Amazon is teaming with Affirm to offer installment payment options to its U.K. customers. The partnership, announced Wednesday (Sept.

Zoox has grounded its autonomous vehicle test fleet in Atlanta after safety drivers were potentially exposed to carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, or hydrogen sulfide gas inside its vehicles last month, TechCrunch has learned. The repeated incidents led one worker to file a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which opened an inquiry and told Zoox to investigate the exposures.

Amazon is spending big on data centers. Investors are already starting to see the results of those investments.

SpaceX has a lead in space and better cloud computing economics. Amazon has the more durable compounding business model.