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• [New] Amazon has signaled an intent to maintain monthly cadence on Atlas V through the remainder of its allocation, transitioning into Vulcan Centaur and Falcon 9 capacity as Atlas V flights are exhausted, with Ariane 6 and New Glenn picking up additional capacity through 2027. KeepTrack
• [New] Amazon has promised a $13 billion chunk of its mammoth capex plans to build AI and cloud infrastructure in India. theregister
• [New] While cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft report rising AI revenue, investors still remain divided on how long it will take for returns to match investment levels. Fortune
• [New] Key customers like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are rapidly advancing their own AI accelerators, escalating the risk to NVDA's data center GPU dominance. Seeking Alpha
• [New] Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers could previously only reach external destinations over the public internet. Amazon Web Services
• [New] Amazon will fly its largest number of broadband satellites to date later this month on the first Ariane 6 launch to use upgraded boosters. SpaceNews
• [New] Amazon is targeting more than 20 missions in 2026 and 30-plus in 2027 as Vulcan Centaur and New Glenn are meant to join Atlas V and Falcon 9 on the manifest, a plan now complicated by Blue Origin's pad accident. Sirotin Intelligence
• [New] Pinterest committed $4 billion to Amazon Web Services through 2031, its largest-ever infrastructure deal, to power the AI models behind 80 billion monthly searches where roughly half of all search activity is commercial. TIKR.com
• [New] Amazon said it will invest an additional $13 billion in India, expanding its cloud, AI, and digital infrastructure footprint in one of the world's most important technology markets. Tech Startups - Tech News, Tech Trends & Startup Fundin
• [New] Cloud operators such as Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta are together expected to spend close to $700 billion in capital expenditures in 2026 as they expand AI infrastructure. GlobeNewswire
• [New] Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta alone plan to allocate $725 billion to capital expenditures in 2026 - up 77% from last year's $410 billion. Forbes
• [New] Amazon has secured Civil Aviation Authority permission to begin same-day drone parcel deliveries in Britain, and the CAA's Future of Flight roadmap targets routine Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations by 2027 - the regulatory key to UK deliveries and long-range inspections over towns and villages. North London Drone Surveys
• [New] Despite the Iran war and spiking inflation, capital spending by hyperscalers like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms, is expected to increase 63% to $670 billion in 2026. Forbes
• [New] If rivals like Amazon or Google follow Meta's pivot and announce their own PPAs for nuclear, geothermal, or other firm power sources, it will confirm an industry-wide strategic shift away from intermittent renewable-only strategies for powering AI. EnkiAI - Find the right insight
• The new Amazon Ads MCP Server is built on the Model Content Protocol, an open standard that will allow AI platforms to communicate with external tools. Ignite Visibility
• On delivery, Amazon Now, already live in parts of London with 30-minute delivery on groceries and essentials, will expand to Manchester and Birmingham in 2026. About Amazon
• In February, it agreed a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar deal with Amazon Web Services to supply compute infrastructure for cloud and AI, and it expects data-centre revenue well above $500 mn (€435 mn) in 2026 and beyond $1bn (€0.87bn) in 2027. Euronews
• Amazon reached the halfway mark on its goal to bring 100,000 electric delivery vans to the road by 2030. US About Amazon
• Amazon is committing $1 billion to Career Choice by 2030, a centerpiece of the $2.5 billion Future Ready 2030 initiative. US About Amazon
• Amazon is investing more than €10 billion to expand and modernize European fulfillment centers with new robotics and will add 25,000 more jobs. US About Amazon
• AI agents will dominate internet searches, commerce and activity by 2035, disrupting the core business models of Google, Amazon and Facebook. CoinDesk

Last updated: 05 July 2026