Amazon is required to pay a $1 billion civil penalty, and provide $1.5 billion in refunds to consumers harmed by shady enrollment practices.

Impacted Amazon customers should have received payments of up to $51 as part of the company's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Amazon is pushing Alexa+ beyond the smart speaker, bringing its upgraded AI assistant to the web, a redesigned mobile app, and new hardware initiatives. The moves, timed to CES, reflect the company’s effort to close the gap with consumer AI rivals such as ChatGPT and Gemini.

Anyone can now try Alexa+, Amazon’s generative AI assistant, through a free early access program at Alexa.com. The website frees the AI, which Amazon released via early access in February, from hardware and makes it as easily accessible as more established chatbots, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.

Coming off a successful Black Friday effort and record-shattering Thursday Night Football and NBA Cup viewership, the tech giant wants to carve out an even bigger piece of the sports ad pie.

AWS growth is accelerating, advertising is thriving with revenues exceeding $60 billion annually, and Amazon is

A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Amazon.com's bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the online retailer of price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle, Amazon's hometown,