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Amazon plans to expand its drone delivery operation to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months. The move advances the decade-old Prime Air research project toward a broader commercial service.
Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 cities by 2026, representing a sixfold increase. The ambitious rollout comes amid safety incidents and continued federal scrutiny of autonomous delivery operations.
Amazon’s Prime Air delivery service has drawn renewed attention after a drone reportedly dropped a package directly into a customer’s swimming pool. The service is expected to expand to 500 U.S. cities, raising concerns about more delivery mishaps.
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 U.S. towns by the end of the year, roughly six times its current coverage. The service delivers packages weighing up to 5 pounds within 30 minutes and is expected to reach tens of millions of consumers.
Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S. Users will be upgraded automatically, regardless of whether they subscribe to Prime.
Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI GPT-5.6 models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—across more than 25 AWS Regions through cross-Region inference. Developers can use US geographic or global inference profiles to improve throughput and access the models through OpenAI and Converse APIs.
Anthropic plans to let business customers retain data for its most capable AI models on their own cloud infrastructure. The planned safety system, expected later this year, would still require a 30-day retention period while moving storage control to customers.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports Policy Authoring, which converts natural-language policy documents into Dogwood policies. The update helps teams enforce agent controls, including new time-based constraints, with worked examples and best practices.
AWS Professional Services uses a multi-agent framework on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate enterprise cloud migrations end to end. Specialized agents cover discovery, infrastructure-as-code generation, portfolio governance, and post-migration operations, reducing IaC development time from weeks to minutes.
OpenAI’s Private Safety Processing is designed to detect abuse across multiple interactions without requiring customers to hand over their data. The approach preserves Zero Data Retention and contrasts with Anthropic’s stated 30-day retention requirement.