Stock Market Today (LIVE): Amazon Axes Rufus for Alexa Pivot; Nvidia CEO Joins Trump on China Trip

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The roundup highlights major software and AI developments across technology and retail. Amazon shut down its Rufus chatbot and pivoted to a revamped 'Alexa for Shopping' conversational engine that integrates search, inventory, and ads. Nvidia’s CEO joined President Trump on a China trip, sparking hopes about chip exports while Anthropic expanded Claude into small-business integrations that threaten traditional SaaS vendors. The piece also covers corporate moves and earnings from software players — LinkedIn layoffs, Wix’s earnings miss amid AI investments, Nebius’s rapid cloud growth — and broader AI and semiconductor market dynamics.

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Cloudflare
$1B+
PayPal
$1B+
Wix.com
$500M to $1B
Salesforce
$1B+
Amazon
$1B+
AMD
$25M to $50M
Microsoft
$1B+
Cerebra
$1M to $5M
Nebius
$10M to $25M
Anthropic
$10M to $25M
DeepMind
$100M to $250M