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Amazon reported fourth-quarter earnings slightly below Wall Street estimates even as sales surged and it reported the fastest growth in its prominent cloud computing business in 13 quarters.

Parent company HayWay Group employs 900 staff in Europe and operates in 11 European countries, CEO Artur Lewandowski said in an interview with Transport Topics.

The ChatGPT maker has held discussions with Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank Group for a new funding round, according to a person familiar with the matter. Details still could change.

Amazon has said it plans to use generative artificial intelligence to replace corporate workers. It has also been reducing a workforce that swelled during the pandemic.

Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores will close, the company said in a blog post on Jan. 27, with some locations converted into Whole Foods Market stores.

Amazon is gearing up to ax thousands more corporate employees, ratcheting up efforts to streamline bureaucracy. The company plans to start rolling out the terminations as early as next week.

Amazon is planning a 229,000-square-foot store selling groceries and general merchandise in the Chicago area, a fresh attempt at physical retail that borrows from stores like Walmart and Target.

Aumovio and Amazon Web Services are using generative artificial intelligence to enhance the development process for autonomous vehicles, starting with Aurora's self-driving trucks.

Among the Dow Jones Transportation Average's best performers in 2025 were C.H. Robinson Worldwide, surging 56%, as investors fawned over its use of artificial intelligence to cut costs. 

The U.S. Postal Service said Dec. 17 it intends to open its last-mile delivery network, the most expensive part of the shipping process, to large and small shippers.