"I really respect Amazon, and this shocks me that they're willing to put up with this," Jim Cramer said Wednesday.

Rohit Prasad, a top Amazon executive overseeing its artificial general intelligence unit, will leave the company at the end of this year, the company confirmed.

The cloud company later said the project was moving forward and "on schedule," but that Blue Owl was not part of equity talks.

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Apple this year delayed its big Siri upgrade to 2026. As the company looks ahead, the pressure is on for the iPhone maker to show investors its AI strategy.