1: Smiles of joy, tears of relief: Evan Gershkovich and others held in Russia are on their way home. It has been 16 months of wrongful imprisonment for Evan. We celebrate with his wonderful family and all the families reunited today. #IStandWithEvan #WelcomeHomeEvan

The secret negotiations to free The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his mom. wsj.com/world/europe/e… via The Wall Street Journal

Incredible

If you read one thing today, read this. The effort to bring home Evan Gershkovich and others unfolded on three continents, involving spy agencies, billionaires, political power players and his fiercest advocate—his mother. What an incredible day. wsj.com/world/europe/e…

Sal’s a great reporter, and an even better colleague. Big loss for us.

Journalist Evan Gershkovich lifts his mother, Ella Milman, as US President Joe Biden looks on, on the tarmac after arriving home at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Thursday.

Noah Lyles won the 100 meters by one of the smallest margins in history on Sunday night. It took the cutting edge of photographic science to figure out he had. wsj.com/sports/olympic… via The Wall Street Journal

Bank of America capped employees’ hours when an intern died after working multiple all-nighters in a row. Today, those policies are often ignored, leaving employees at the investment bank to work 15-to-16 hour days off the books for weeks a time. wsj.com/finance/bankin…

Kamala Harris's LA neighbors know when she is in town. A snaking motorcade paralyzes traffic, and Secret Service agents try to look inconspicuous as they loiter outside of the local Goop store. My dispatch from Brentwood: wsj.com/politics/elect…

Amazon Boosts Pay for its Drivers Following Threats to Unionize. Exclusive with ⁦Esther Fung⁩ wsj.com/tech/amazon-bo…

Amazon will require employees to return to the office five days a week starting early next year wsj.com/business/amazo… w/ Victoria Albert

Amazon's requirement to be in the office five days a week has sparked frustration and debate among employees. Some at Amazon said they were surprised and disappointed and fear the move may allow Amazon to shrink its workforce without official layoffs. wsj.com/business/amazo…

Amazon trails rivals in developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence. It has tapped a creator of its Alexa voice assistant to help it catch up. on.wsj.com/4eeJZ32 on.wsj.com/4eeJZ32

A profile of Amazon executive Rohit Prasad, who now oversees a new team of thousands to develop AI products for an Alexa upgrade and other businesses (@sebasaherrera / Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/tech/ai/rohit-… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240923/p10#a24…

Amazon is behind in cutting-edge AI development. To catch up, it has turned to one of the creators of its Alexa assistant. Here's our inside look at Amazon's scramble after the ChatGPT boom, and the man leading its AI efforts. wsj.com/tech/ai/rohit-…

ICYMI, my weekend profile on Scale AI, featuring fun details including: ---how the startup recruits contractors across the world to label AI models ---a nearly botched contract for Meta & how the company responded ---code names for Scale's customers wsj.com/tech/ai/alexan…

Listen 🎧: Amazon insiders say it's struggled to catch up with AI rivals that fixated on the tech years earlier. Sebastian Herrera joins zoethomas to discuss the man tasked with rebooting Amazon's AI ambitions. link.chtbl.com/WSJTechNewsBri…

Amazon becomes one of the biggest U.S. employers to respond to government pressure to make overdose medicine more widely available in the workplace wsj.com/business/amazo… via The Wall Street Journal

Temu is coming after Amazon’s consumers—and its sellers. Here's our latest story on the new e-commerce rivals (W/ Shen Lu) wsj.com/business/retai…

Apple TV+ to be sold via Amazon Prime Video.