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Qualcomm to make custom chips for Amazon as part of $4B deal
Qualcomm and Amazon announced a $4 billion agreement for Qualcomm to design custom chips for Amazon, with potential purchases of up to $60 billion in processors over 10 years to support Amazon's data center expansion.
Sep 11, 2026
Deloitte Forecasts Holiday Retail Sales to Reach $1.70 Trillion to $1.71 Trillion
Deloitte issued a forecast predicting U.S. holiday retail sales will reach $1.70–$1.71 trillion from November 2026 to January 2027, with e-commerce sales projected at $316.1–$318.9 billion — up 7.5% to 8.4% year-over-year.
Sep 10, 2026
E-Commerce Update - Alibaba Lawsuit Highlights Regulatory Challenges For Global Companies - Yahoo Finance
A lawsuit against Alibaba is cited as evidence of mounting regulatory challenges facing global e-commerce and technology companies, particularly in cross-border data, competition, and AI-adjacent compliance domains.
Sep 4, 2026
FTC sues Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of misleading advertisers
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the company of operating a deceptive advertising auction system that misled advertisers about how ad placements and pricing were determined.
Sep 1, 2026
FTC to File Lawsuit Alleging Amazon Deceived Advertisers (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
The FTC and over 20 states are preparing to file a lawsuit accusing Amazon of deceiving advertisers by manipulating ad pricing on its retail platform to generate billions in revenue.
Sep 1, 2026
This IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites
A profile of IEEE Senior Member Balaji Ingole, highlighting his rural Indian upbringing, self-directed technical education, and current dual role as an AI project manager at Amla Commerce and independent researcher developing AI health and accessibility tools.
Aug 21, 2026
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$40B, meeting est., and net income down 75% to ~$1.6B due to heavy AI spending and weak domestic retail consumption (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
Alibaba reported a 75% year-over-year decline in net income to ~$1.6B in Q1, driven by aggressive AI investment and weak domestic retail demand, even as revenue rose 9% to ~$40B — highlighting strategic prioritization of long-term AI capability over near-term profitability.
Aug 20, 2026
finby boosts Wero to support the future of pan-European payments
Finby, a European payment service provider, has integrated Wero—a pan-European digital payment solution—into its platform for e-commerce merchants, advancing cross-border payment infrastructure in the EU.
Aug 13, 2026
Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-71362) in Adobe Commerce and Magento platforms to hijack customer accounts, posing immediate risk to e-commerce businesses and consumers.
Aug 13, 2026
African e-commerce company Jumia raised $50M, including $25M from the World Bank's IFC; Jumia's US-listed shares have fallen from $60+ in 2021 to $6 now (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
Jumia Technologies AG raised $50M in new equity funding, half from the World Bank’s IFC, amid a 90% collapse in its US-listed share price since 2021 — signaling investor concern about sustainability despite institutional backing.
Aug 12, 2026
Sources: Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed for and were aware for seven months of using "cookie stuffing" to claim affiliate commissions (Bloomberg)
Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni directed the development and use of 'cookie stuffing' techniques for seven months to fraudulently claim affiliate commissions, according to Bloomberg sources.
Aug 11, 2026
A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks (New York Times)
Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, has lost roughly one-third of its warehouse capacity due to Ukrainian military strikes, presenting a major operational and strategic challenge for founder Tatyana Kim.
Aug 8, 2026
Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce
A startup founded by ex-Spotify employees raised $10M to adapt Spotify's AI recommendation engine for e-commerce personalization.
Aug 6, 2026
Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
Klaviyo acquired Elias Torres’ agency and appointed him as Chief Product Officer to lead its AI agents initiative, marking a strategic reintegration of a founding-era entrepreneur into the company he helped shape.
Aug 6, 2026
Sources: Amazon staff find cases of "catastrophically expensive" AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to match author details with listings (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
Amazon employees identified uncontrolled AI spending, including an $1.8M expense using Anthropic’s Claude to match book author details with product listings, revealing operational gaps in AI cost governance.
Jul 30, 2026
eBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019
eBay settled a $56 million lawsuit stemming from its 2019 campaign to intimidate newsletter writers Ina and David Steiner after they published critical coverage.
Jul 29, 2026
eBay and several ex-executives agree to pay a $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case involving the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
eBay and several former executives settled a civil lawsuit for $56 million related to the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers, resolving claims filed in 2021.
Jul 28, 2026
RouteCost: A Production-Inspired Multi-Stage Framework for Pre-Order Shipping Cost Estimation in E-Commerce
RouteCost is a new multi-stage machine learning framework designed to improve pre-order shipping cost estimation in e-commerce by modeling operational dynamics like demand mix, dimensional pricing, surcharges, and shipment consolidation — addressing limitations of static lookup tables and monolithic regressors.
Jul 21, 2026
AliExpress fined almost $630 million over illegal product sales
AliExpress was fined €550 million by the European Commission for systemic failures to comply with the Digital Services Act, specifically inadequate staffing and delayed removal of illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products.
Jul 20, 2026
SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected (Reuters)
GameStop disclosed in an SEC filing that it owns 9.8% of eBay, reaffirming its intent to pursue a $56B unsolicited acquisition bid after eBay rejected the offer.
Jul 18, 2026
Ad Headline Generation using Self-Critical Masked Language Model
Researchers propose a reinforcement learning-enhanced masked language model to generate e-commerce advertising headlines, claiming superior grammatical and creative quality compared to human-written headlines based on internal audits.
Jul 10, 2026
China's Alibaba bans Anthropic AI for employees after 'distillation attack' accusation
Alibaba banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code after accusing it of enabling 'distillation attacks' — a security concern where AI models extract proprietary code or training data — raising questions about cross-border AI tool governance and corporate risk management.
Jul 8, 2026
2026.25: The Stuff of Myth(os)
Stratechery content from the week of June 15, 2026.
Published Jun 19, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026
An Interview with Michael Morton About E-Commerce in the Age of AI
Interview with Michael Morton on e-commerce and AI.
Published Jun 18, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026