We recently published a list of Mag7 and Beyond: Top 10 AI News Updates and Ratings. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) stands against other top AI news updates and ratings.
According to a study presented at a European Central Bank conference, companies that manage to survive the upheaval caused by the adoption of artificial intelligence will eventually leverage AI to help them thrive in the longer run. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau and surveys covering the period between 2017 and 2021, authors of the study found that companies that had adopted AI early on in the manufacturing sector saw their productivity drop after they replaced human workers with robots.
These findings are undoubtedly against the notion that technology, particularly AI, makes work more productive. However, Kristina McElheran, one of the authors of the paper, highlighted how there is a lot of pain in the short run. This pain, particularly the drop in productivity, has been due to the interference of AI with manufacturers’ established practices, such as keeping low inventories. Over time, these firms begin to outperform in all areas, including sales, productivity, and employment, as noted in the study.
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While traditional companies are rushing to adopt AI in their operations, artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI are in turn racing to advance AI research and enhance their tools. Last Monday, the company said it would it would raise $40 billion in a new funding round led by SoftBank Group at a $300 billion valuation. While the firm has agreed to fund OpenAI with $10 billion in mid-April and an additional $30 billion in December, it has done so on the condition that OpenAI will transition to for-profit by the end of the year.
In the case that OpenAI’s restructuring fails, the tech investment group’s investment will drop to $20 billion. With the firm having closed a $6.6 billion funding round in October, the new funding will nearly double the valuation of the AI startup.
“OpenAI has very ambitious plans on many fronts and needs a lot of capital to achieve these goals. The list of investors wanting to support that scope has shrunk and may be largely limited to Soft Bank, which itself may not have the necessary capital.”
– D.A. Davidson & Co analyst Gil Luria.
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is an American technology company offering e-commerce, cloud computing, and other services, including digital streaming and artificial intelligence solutions.
On March 31, Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) released a new AI model, Nova Act, which can take actions in a web browser on a user’s behalf. The model aims to help developers build agents, or AI software that can complete multi-step tasks for users without supervision. With many companies building their own AI agents, the model is an important step forward for the company in the race toward AI supremacy. The move puts it in direct competition with competitors such as OpenAI and others that have developed such “agents.”
Overall, AMZN ranks 1st on our list of top AI news updates and ratings. While we acknowledge the potential of AMZN as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than AMZN but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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