Amazon is the latest tech giant to announce a massive AI spending plan, with well over $100 billion in predicted capital expenditures for 2025. The “vast majority” of that $100 billion will go toward AI capabilities for its cloud division AWS, CEO Andy Jassy said during Amazon’s fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday.

DeepSeek has prompted investors to take a closer look at the AI spending plans of the world's biggest tech companies.

Wall Street’s expectations on fourth-quarter earnings and revenue today, but sales in its all-important cloud computing business came up short, and guidance for the current quarter was light. As a result,

If announced, this would mark Alexa's most significant evolution since its debut in 2014. Although Amazon has long been a leader in the AI assistant space, the landscape is rapidly shifting. Companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are rolling out increasingly sophisticated AI assistants capable of multitasking and completing complex requests.

The new generative AI-powered Alexa represents at once a huge opportunity for Amazon, which counts more than half a billion Alexa-enabled devices in the market, and a tremendous risk. Amazon is hoping the revamp,

Amazon will host an event on Feb. 26 that may include the launch of a revamped Alexa the company has been teasing for more than a year. Amazon typically holds an event each fall to launch its latest Echo devices ahead of the holiday shopping season,