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The Infrastructure Underneath Tomorrow's Innovation

Issue #2545.5 • November 5, 2025

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David Nagtzaam
Nov 05, 2025
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While Amazon is busy slashing thousands of white-collar jobs to make room for AI efficiency gains, another AI startup is doing something more audacious: replacing Amazon’s customers. Not ideal from Amazon’s point of view, and more consequential than you might think. The twist? One of that startup’s major investors is Jeff Bezos himself. Talk …

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