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What you need to know about Amazon today: February 17, 2026

David Zapolsky, Amazon's chief global affairs & legal officer, emphasized at this week's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi how Amazon is fostering "patient capital meeting progressive governance," creating durable outcomes where jobs multiply and small businesses gain global market access. Amazon announced on December 9, 2025, plans to invest more than $35 billion in India through 2030, focusing on AI-driven digitization, export growth, and job creation. Building on nearly $40 billion already invested, Amazon has digitized over 12 million small businesses, enabled $20 billion in exports, and supported 2.8 million jobs in 2024. By 2030, the company plans to bring AI benefits to 15 million small businesses, provide AI education to 4 million students, support 3.8 million jobs, and quadruple exports to $80 billion.
Amazon launched Learn and Be Curious with Doug Herrington, a new podcast where the Stores CEO discusses innovation, product development, and company culture with fellow Amazon employees. The debut episode featured a conversation with Hannah McClellan, an Amazon Pharmacy VP. In the podcast, Herrington reveals the most important lesson he learned from Jeff Bezos during his 20 years at Amazon: the power of using culture and Leadership Principles to align teams and reduce friction by getting everyone on the same page.
Prime Video announced that The House of the Spirits, the first Spanish-language television adaptation of Isabel Allende's iconic novel, will premiere globally on April 29, following its debut at the 76th Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin on February 16. The eight-episode family saga, produced by Academy Award-winning FilmNation Entertainment (behind Anora andConclave), spans half a century and follows three generations of women-Clara, Blanca, and Alba-in a conservative South American country shaped by class struggle, political upheaval, and magic. The series stars Alfonso Herrera, Nicole Wallace, Dolores Fonzi, Fernanda Castillo, and more, bringing Allende's celebrated novel to life for Prime Video's global audience.
AWS CEO Matt Garman declares AI inference as a transformative building block enabling task-accomplishing agents that deliver exponentially greater enterprise value than content generation tools. Speaking at AWS re:Invent 2025, Garman explained that inference allows AI to autonomously complete workflows-processing insurance claims, writing code, and implementing fixes-rather than merely summarizing information. AWS introduced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and three frontier agents to bring to life this vision. Garman predicts massive enterprise returns in 2026 from agents automating end-to-end tasks, supported by infrastructure innovations like Graviton5 processors and Trainium3 UltraServers, positioning AWS across the entire AI stack.

Amazon is supporting Türkiye's environmental recovery three years after devastating earthquakes with a €1.5 million grant to the United Nations Development Programme. The funding will restore 450 hectares of damaged natural ecosystems across earthquake-affected regions while creating economic opportunities for recovering communities. Restoration activities include artificial wetlands, rainwater harvesting systems, sustainable compost production, seedling planting, and community seedbanks. The project, Amazon's first nature restoration initiative in Türkiye through its Right Now Climate Fund, begins in Yukarı Nasırlı Village in Adıyaman Province as a pilot model. Approximately 2,000 people will receive training and equipment, with plans to scale restoration efforts to 20 additional villages across the region affected by the 2023 earthquakes.
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