Amazon’s latest round of sweeping layoffs hit hundreds in New York

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Amazon’s latest round of brutal layoffs included several hundred employees in New York, The Post has learned. Some 135 corporate Amazon employees who worked at 1140 Broadway received pink slips in January, according to a state Department of Labor filing this week.  Another 165 Amazon workers in New York were axed, with the government records […]


Thousands of Amazon’s LShome Photoelectric smoke detectors recalled due to potential fire hazard

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Thousands of smoke detector fire alarms sold exclusively on Amazon are being recalled over a sound issue that could pose a fire hazard. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said in a notice that 11,000 LShome Photoelectric 3-Pack Smoke Detector Fire Alarms may fail to activate promptly if the sensing threshold of security warnings is […]


Amazon’s Best Books of 2025

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Amazon’s Best Books of the Year In a year without a novel like James owning headlines and bestseller […]


Amazon’s R&D lab forms new agentic AI group

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at a company event in New York on Feb. 26, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon has formed a new group within its consumer product-development arm that is focused on agentic artificial intelligence, the company said Wednesday. The team will be based in Lab126, the stealthy Silicon […]


Amazon’s Zoox issues software recall again after San Francisco crash

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A Zoox autonomous robotaxi in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon‘s Zoox robotaxi unit issued a voluntary recall of its software for the second time in a month following a recent crash in San Francisco. On May 8, an unoccupied Zoox robotaxi was […]


Amazon’s Mixed Earnings Report Sends Share Prices Down

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As much as Amazon may have wanted to dodge the spotlight in President Trump’s trade war, there was no avoiding it for America’s largest online retailer. First, the e-commerce company was entangled in the fleeting spat Tuesday with the White House over a faulty report that Amazon was going to show shoppers the costs of […]


Amazon’s 10 Books That Defined 2024

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Amazon’s 10 Books That Defined 2024 Amazon editors made the impossible selection of just 10 books that defined […]