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A hotfire engine test at Cape Canaveral on May 28 destroyed New Glenn and LC-36, freezing Amazon's 24-launch satellite manifest and casting doubt on Blue Origin's role in NASA's 2026-2028 lunar program.

X-energy priced its IPO at $23 a share on April 24, raising $1.02 billion — the largest nuclear IPO on record — as shares surged 36% on debut.

Einride and EASE Logistics will deploy two SAE Level 4 driverless electric trucks in Marysville, Ohio this summer, while the company pursues a $1.35 billion Nasdaq listing via SPAC and scales an Amazon electric fleet.

Amazon's cloud division hit a $150 billion annualized run rate at 28% growth, while AI services crossed $15 billion and custom chips topped $20 billion.

ULA says Northrop Grumman ran a successful GEM 63XL solid rocket booster static fire on April 15, but the Vulcan rocket remains grounded for national security launches three months after a nozzle anomaly on USSF-87, with Amazon expected to anchor a return-to-flight by year-end.

Brussels' first review of the Digital Markets Act concludes the law needs no overhaul, declines to designate generative AI as a new core platform service, and shifts focus toward cloud gatekeeper probes and a Google Android AI specification.

Amazon's third major Anthropic investment deepens the two companies' infrastructure partnership, with Anthropic pledging over $100 billion in AWS spending over ten years.

Shareholders are asking Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to publish site-specific data-center water and energy data as scrutiny of AI infrastructure grows.

Amazon will acquire Globalstar for about $11.57 billion and inherit the company's iPhone satellite partnership, accelerating its Starlink challenge and its rebranded Amazon Leo constellation.

Intel is in advanced talks with Google and Amazon for EMIB-based chip packaging services worth billions annually, positioning its foundry division as a credible alternative to TSMC's constrained CoWoS capacity.

Amazon has eliminated approximately 30,000 corporate positions since October 2025 through two rounds of layoffs, with March cuts reaching its robotics division and unconfirmed reports suggesting a third wave of 14,000 additional reductions in Q2 2026.

Amazon threat intelligence reveals that the Interlock ransomware group exploited a critical Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center zero-day vulnerability for over five weeks before Cisco disclosed and patched the flaw in early March 2026.