Robots & Artificial IntelligenceWhat Amazon’s “Insane” AI Bet Reveals About the Price of Survival Posted on April 22, 2026 by Administrator There is a particular kind of corporate courage that rarely gets credited — not the courage to launch something new, but the courage to tear down something that works. Andy Jassy’s annual letter to shareholders, released Thursday, is a meditation on exactly that kind of nerve. At its center is a deceptively simple idea: that Amazon, one of the most successful commercial enterprises in human history, intends to rebuild its retail shopping experience from a blank page because the alternative — patching AI onto what already exists — would be a slower form of suicide.