Amazon Stock Today (Nov. 5, 2025): AMZN Holds Near Record Highs as OpenAI Cloud Pact, Perplexity Lawsuit, and Brazil Payments Push Take Center Stage
Summary: Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hovering around recent all‑time highs midday Wednesday as investors digest a flurry of catalysts: a seven‑year, $38 billion AI infrastructure deal with OpenAI that lifted shares earlier this week, a fresh lawsuit against Perplexity over an “agentic” shopping tool, and a Brazil payments expansion via Nubank. Under the hood, Q3 showed AWS growth reaccelerating and management guiding 2025 capital spending toward ~$125 billion to meet AI demand. Bloomberg+4Investopedia+4Reuters+4 Key takeaways What’s moving the stock today (Nov. 5) 1) Amazon files suit against Perplexity over automated shopping.Amazon claims Perplexity’s Comet browser uses an AI “agent” that