Amazon Stock (AMZN) Before Market Open Dec. 22, 2025: OpenAI Talks, AWS AI Spending, Holiday Demand, Analyst Targets
Ahead of the next U.S. stock market open, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is back in the spotlight for a familiar reason—AI infrastructure—but with a twist: reports that Amazon is in early talks for a multi‑billion‑dollar investment in OpenAI that could pull more AI training and inference workloads onto AWS and Amazon’s own chips. This pre‑market briefing is written for the U.S. session beginning Monday, December 22, 2025 (note: some readers may be thinking of the next session depending on time zone and “tomorrow” wording). The bigger picture remains the same: AWS growth, AI capacity, and capex discipline are the core