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Engineer Says Amazon’s 6-Page Memos Part of Its ‘Secret Sauce’

When Steve Huynh was a principal engineer at Amazon, meetings began with a “study hall.”Amazon had a “reading culture” even among engineers, Huynh recently told the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, speaking of his time at the tech giant. Employees frequently drafted six-page memos, he said, which they shared with the company…

Amazon’s Anthropic Alliance Is Paying Off Handsomely, New Data Shows

Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic has been a big success and is set to drive significant growth in the tech giant’s cloud business in coming years, according to new estimates released on Friday.Amazon Web Services stands to generate billions of dollars in extra in revenue from the alliance, Morgan Stanley analysts…

Amazon’s Prime Day Has Better, but Fewer, Deals so Far This Year: Data

One of the most-purchased items so far during Amazon’s Prime Day isn’t an Alexa-enabled device or the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s a hydration drink mix.Liquid IV packets were the most-bought item by number of units sold during Prime Day’s first day and a half, according to Numerator data that tracked transactions.Some shoppers…

Inside Amazon’s Big Grocery Reorg: New Leaders Integrate Whole Foods

Amazon is integrating Whole Foods more deeply into its core business, in a major reorganization that it hopes will reinvigorate its grocery business under new leadership.In an internal memo last week, Whole Foods CEO and Amazon VP of Worldwide Grocery Jason Buechel explained how the restructuring will bring the two…