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Amazon’s Evolution From Retail Disrupter to Partner

An Amazon Go store at the company headquarters campus in Seattle. Amazon is more interested in selling its self-checkout technology to retail partners than creating more similar brick-and-mortar stores itself.

Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Spencer Soper looks at Amazon’s effort to play nice with its retail rivals.

Meta’s product plans: The owner of Facebook and Instagram is working on upgrades to its popular smart glasses, including an Oakley-branded model, and is exploring new wearable devices such as watches and camera-equipped earbuds. The company is trying to embed artificial intelligence features into more consumer products.