Edition No. 126 · Mon 26 Oct 2026 · Story 17 of 31

Inside Amazon's $220 billion AI bet

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A recording has AWS's CFO joking that the AI build-out took Amazon free-cash-flow negative, ahead of this week's earnings.

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