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Amazon more than doubled its same-day grocery cities since August

Perishables likes blueberries and avocados are now same-day delivery bestsellers for the retail giant.

12/10/25 7:00AM

When Amazon announced its free same-day Prime delivery of perishable groceries in 1,000 US cities in August, investors and analysts rejoiced while shares of the tech giant’s grocery competitors — including Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and Instacart — fell.

Today, the e-commerce giant announced that the program has reached its goal of expanding to 2,300 locations in 2025 and forecasts “continued expansion to even more areas coming in 2026” — growth that will likely have a similar effect on the competition. In that time, Amazon’s perishable selection has also grown 30% and available locations have spread from usual suspects like Los Angeles, Dallas, and Chicago to smaller locales like Fort Collins, Colorado, Sugar Land, Texas, and Kennesaw, Georgia. The company also said its perishable grocery sales have grown 30x since January, though it didn’t provide a baseline.

But perhaps more interesting is what Amazon consumers have been buying in the meantime. Amazon said in areas where the service is available, nine of the top 10 bestselling items are now perishables — all fruit. No. 10 is a 12-pack of toilet paper.

If one were to look back before the same-day delivery announcement this summer, stuff like batteries and beauty products were more likely to top the list.

"We’re seeing customers combine their fresh grocery orders with their regular Amazon purchases, like electronics, gifts, clothes, and household essentials, in ways that make their lives easier and save them valuable time,” Doug Herrington, CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, said in the press release.

Regional preferences are also emerging. Here are some particularly popular perishables in different parts of the US, according to Amazon:

Northeast: Chocolate chip muffins, broccoli florets, raw shrimp.
South: Atlantic salmon, lemonade, chicken pot pies.
West: Cold brew coffee, chicken thighs, probiotic drinks.
Midwest: Wheat bread, bacon, pepperoni pizza.

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While gaming industry groups may not like it, there’s been a huge change in the methods people are using to put money on the big games, with everyone from fortunate NYC bar owners, to a far less fortunate Spanish supporter, turning to prediction markets to try and turn their sports know-how into cold, hard cash.

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Anthropic pulls Fable and Mythos access worldwide after Trump administration bars their use by foreign nationals

Only days after releasing two versions of its next-gen AI model, Anthropic has disabled them for users worldwide.

Anthropic says it received a Friday night order from the Trump administration to suspend access to the models for any foreign national (anywhere in the world) — a group that included some Anthropic employees. In response, the company turned off access to everyone.

Last week, the company released to the public its much-anticipated Claude Fable 5 model (and its restricted version Claude Mythos 5, which is still being tested with trusted partners). Anthropic said in a blog post announcing the action that officials cited national security concerns with the new models, while offering few specific details.

The post said that the government gave the company “verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak” of the public Fable 5 model. A jailbreak is a means by which users can evade restrictions built into the code to unlock prohibited functionality. Anthropic downplayed the significance of the attack, and said other major models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, could also be affected by the technique described.

Fears of these first Mythos-class models being misused are running high, after Anthropic warned the cybersecurity world in May that the advanced cyber capabilities of Mythos have rapidly discovered thousands of vulnerabilities in ubiquitous software, leading to the decision to restrict the full version of the model to a close group of trusted partners for testing.

This morning, Axios reported that Anthropic technical staff have flown to Washington to meet with White House officials to resolve the issue.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump administration’s decision to take action against Anthropic was prompted by discussions that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had with officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. According to the report, Amazon researchers said they had been able to evade some of Fable 5’s security restrictions using specific prompts. Amazon is a major investor in Anthropic.

Anthropic is currently suing the US government to fight the Pentagon’s blacklisting of the company on national security grounds.

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5