内容摘要：The tit-for-tat hikes between the U.S. and China are the latest in

The tit-for-tat hikes between the U.S. and China are the latest in

The new tariffs could benefit Amazon by increasing costs for its competitors. But it would also affect Chinese sellers who connect with American consumers on the company’s shopping platform. Furthermore, it could increase prices on a recently-launched online storefront that Amazon set up to ship low-cost products directly from China. The storefront, called, was Amazon’s answer to Shein and Temu.

Amazon said that it earned $17.13 billion, or $1.59 per share, for the quarter ended March 31. That’s up from $10.43 billion, or 98 cents a share, in the year-ago period.Revenue rose 9% to $155.7 billion, up from $143.3 billion from the year-ago period.Sales for Amazon Web services rose 17% to $29.3 billion during the fiscal first quarter.

Amazon is one of the biggest players in the race around generative artificial intelligence. Like other tech companies, it has increased investments in the technology and is spending billions to expand data centers that bolster AI and cloud computing. The company is also investing in its own computer chips and those developed by Nvidia. It has also expanded its own AI models and integrated generative AI intoIn the first quarter, Amazon reported spending $25.02 billion on property and equipment, higher than the $14.92 billion spent in same period in 2024.

Amazon this week announced a $4 billion investment through 2026 to expand its rural delivery network to bring faster delivery to customers in less densely populated areas across the U.S.

The company said it expects sales in the second quarter to be anywhere from $159 billion to $164 billion. Analysts projected $161.2 billion, according to FactSet.His father, Ernesto Vargas Maldonado, left the family before he was born. To avoid public scandal, his mother, Dora Llosa Ureta, took her child to Bolivia, where her father was the Peruvian consul in Cochabamba.

Vargas Llosa said his early life was “somewhat traumatic,” pampered by his mother and grandmother in a large house with servants, his every whim granted.It was not until he was 10, after the family had moved to Peru’s coastal city of Piura, that he learned his father was alive. His parents reconciled and the family moved to Peru’s capital, Lima.

Vargas Llosa described his father as a disciplinarian who viewed his son’s love of Jules Verne and writing poetry as surefire routes to starvation, and feared for his “manhood,” believing that “poets are always homosexuals.”Isabel Preysler, left, and writer Mario Vargas Llosa arrive at the red carpet of the Goya Film Awards Ceremony in Madrid, Spain, Feb. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Abraham Caro Marin, File)