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Matt Day
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Driving and riding a series of compounding s-curves. Writing about Amazon, Microsoft and tech for Bloomberg News in Seattle.
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"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.
variety.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Area tech exec gets out of the performance review game: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Is Replacing Security Chief Bell With Google’s Gallot
Microsoft Corp. security chief Charlie Bell is moving to a new individual contributor role focused on engineering quality and will be replaced by an executive from Google’s cloud unit.
www.bloomberg.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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“The sentiment has flipped. It’s a combination of ‘Will Sam deliver, and, secondarily, will Sam begin to eat their lunch?’” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Microsoft’s Deal With OpenAI Now Viewed as a Risk, Not Reward
The partnership, once applauded, now faces a skeptical audience
www.bloomberg.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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Amazon's Alexa+ gets a wide rollout in the US, including a new free version that enables comparisons between Alexa, ChatGPT and the rest of the gang. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Launches AI-Enhanced Alexa for Prime Subscribers in US
Amazon.com Inc. is taking the wrapper off its upgraded Alexa in the US, offering the AI-enhanced digital assistant to paying Prime customers and introducing a free version for everyone else.
www.bloomberg.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Google and its parent Alphabet are plotting big expansion in India's tech hub of Bangalore, coinciding with the Trump administration's visa restrictions @bloomberg.com

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#AI
February 4, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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Epstein docs on the Microsoft patch: After Steven Sinofsky left the company in 2012, he sought Jeffrey Epstein’s advice as he negotiated the terms of his exit and worked through what to do next: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Former Microsoft Windows Boss Sought Epstein Advice on Career
Former senior Microsoft Corp. executive Steven Sinofsky sought Jeffrey Epstein’s advice as he negotiated the terms of his exit from the company and worked through what to do next, according to documen...
www.bloomberg.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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Nike says a third of the people who make its products don't earn a living wage.
Nike said focusing solely on pay relative to the minimum wage is a mistake. The company’s main focus with wages is whether they’re high enough to cover basic expenses and a little more, Cho said, a concept known as a living wage. Some countries have minimum wages that meet that threshold, some don’t. Nike has said 66% of workers at its suppliers, at least those for whom it has data, earn a living wage. That’s up from 53% in 2021.
February 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Email From: Steven Sinofsky To: Jeffrey Epstein Tue, 13 Nov 2012 I gotta sleep ... but advise me or tell me who to advise me? Obviously our legal folks have heard everything before ;-) A lot of people would follow me if we moved to SF or NY and I was at a stable company that did cool stuff. The retention bonus they are giving folks is sort of insulting. Sent from Windows Mail
February 1, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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Epstein docs on the Microsoft patch: After Steven Sinofsky left the company in 2012, he sought Jeffrey Epstein’s advice as he negotiated the terms of his exit and worked through what to do next: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Former Microsoft Windows Boss Sought Epstein Advice on Career
Former senior Microsoft Corp. executive Steven Sinofsky sought Jeffrey Epstein’s advice as he negotiated the terms of his exit from the company and worked through what to do next, according to documen...
www.bloomberg.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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News: Amazon has asked the FCC for a two-year extension in the deadline to get half of its satellite broadband constellation in orbit. The rockets that Leo - formerly Kuiper - needs aren't ready. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Despite a historic reserve of launch capacity and deep investmentsin launch infrastructure, Amazon Leo has faced a shortage in the near-term availability of launches. This shortage has been driven by manufacturing disruptions, the failure and grounding of new launch vehicles, and limitations in spaceport capacity. Because Amazon Leo is producing satellites considerably faster than others can launch them, it has adjusted its rate of satellite production to match its launch manifest and built facilities spanning hundreds of thousands of square feet near its manufacturing and launch sites to store hundreds of already-built-and-ready-to-launch satellites
January 30, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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this recap thing is getting out of hand
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January 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Amazon layoffs in Seattle HQ this round:
1,400 in the city. 700 in Bellevue, @annaedge4.bsky.social reports. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Layoffs Hit 1,400 in Seattle as Local Tech Jobs Wither
Amazon.com Inc.’s 16,000 job cuts announced this week include about 1,400 in Seattle and approximately 700 in the neighboring suburb of Bellevue, according to documents filed with state and local auth...
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January 30, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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in Shoreline: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Megargee was tasked with driving Guzman’s car to his workplace after federal agents detained him about 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Guzman was driving his son to day care before work when four unmarked vehicles surrounded his car, blocking two lanes of Aurora Avenue near North 163rd Street. Masked and armed federal agents emerged and arrested Guzman. They left his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes, eyewitnesses said.
January 30, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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What happens when the AI race collides with child safety?
Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data
The tech giant reported hundreds of thousands of cases of suspected child sexual abuse material, but won’t say where it came from
www.bloomberg.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Stop carrying out your intentions
January 30, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Perplexity just signed a huge AI cloud deal with Microsoft. The AI search startup is in a legal feud with its usual provider, Amazon. (Perplexity tells us AWS remains its preferred provider, and they're expanding the work there, too). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Perplexity Inks Microsoft AI Cloud Deal Amid Dispute With Amazon
AI startup Perplexity inked a $750 million deal with Microsoft Corp. to use its Azure cloud service amid a legal feud with Perplexity’s longtime cloud partner, Amazon.com Inc.
www.bloomberg.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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We’re entering an age of macro delegation and micro steering across domains
January 28, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Microsoft reports quarterly earnings in a couple of hours. One wonky metric to keep an eye on for Big Cloud this go-round: the large (and ballooning...) backlog of sales set to arrive in future years. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Cloud Companies Stack Up Future Sales in AI Era Remaining performance obligations for the largest cloud-computing providers. $ value as of Dec '22 ($ value added since) Microsoft: $189B ($203B) Amazon: $110B ($89B) Google: $64B ($91B)
January 28, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Another 16,000 layoffs at Amazon: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon to Cut 16,000 Corporate Positions to Trim Bureaucracy
Amazon.com Inc. is cutting 16,000 corporate jobs in an effort to remove layers of bureaucracy and “increase ownership,” becoming the latest company to target managers for layoffs in recent years.
www.bloomberg.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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News: Amazon is shuttering its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores, the latest retreat after more than a decade of trying to sell stuff in the real world under its own brand. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Is Closing Its Fresh Grocery, Go Convenience Stores
Amazon.com Inc. is shuttering its Amazon-branded grocery stores and automated grab-and-go markets, shuttering two centerpieces of its push into physical retail.
www.bloomberg.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Microsoft takes the wrapper off its latest AI chip. They say the Maia 200 is the most efficient chip for inference - helping ChatGPT and friends to come up with answer to human input - they've ever put in a data center. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Unveils Latest AI Chip to Reduce Reliance on Nvidia
Microsoft Corp. is rolling out its second-generation artificial intelligence chip, the centerpiece of the company’s push to power its services more efficiently and provide an alternative to Nvidia Cor...
www.bloomberg.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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On tonight’s White House agenda:

Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.

Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
The event, which has not been promoted or advertised, is taking place in the East Room of the White House on Saturday. Guests include director Brett Ratner; Queen Rania of Jordan; Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; Apple CEO Tim Cook; New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Linsa Su; Mike Tyson; socialite and Fiat heiress Azzi Agnelli; self-help guru Tony Robbins; and photographer Ellen von Unwerth, who shot the movie poster for the film. Barron Trump and Ratner's mother will also be on hand, along with Mike Hopkins of Amazon Studios, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Marc Beckman, a senior adviser and longtime manager to the First Lady who was reportedly involved in every aspect of the project. Since the usual White House screening room in the East Wing has been shut down to construct the Trump ballroom, Melania built a make-shift theater, with state of the art sound and film equipment (overseen by Ratner himself), and a giant movie screen brought in for the occasion.
January 25, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Federal immigration agents arrested and detained a Gresham, Oregon family, including a 7-year-old child, outside a Portland hospital last week as the girl’s parents sought emergency medical care for her.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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More layoffs coming at Amazon. Managers were given the option to trim in the fall, or wait until the new year, similar pattern to their prior enormous round in '22/23: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Gears Up to Terminate Thousands More Corporate Employees
Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up to ax thousands more corporate employees, ratcheting up efforts to streamline bureaucracy.
www.bloomberg.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:49 PM