Jeff Bezos

Industrials

Getting Physical: Jeff Bezos’s Billion-Dollar Quest to Fire Up Manufacturing with AI

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The aptly code-named startup Project Prometheus is close to scoring a new $10 billion fundraise at a cool $38 billion valuation.

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Technology

Memory Shortage Boosts Sandisk — and May Kill Personal Computers

Sandisk split off from data storage firm Western Digital to list independently in February last year just in time for the boom.

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Artificial Intelligence

Jeff Bezos Shifts from Society Page Back to Business Section with Startup C-Suite Role

Bezos, the third-richest person in the world, will serve as co-chief executive and co-founder alongside physicist and chemist Vik Bajaj.

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Industrials

Amazon’s Internet Satellite Venture Achieves Liftoff in Challenge to Musk’s Starlink

While Kuiper won’t generate revenue for a while, Amazon is still using its enormous influence to position itself for some corporate Star Wars.

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Technology

The State of the Billionaire Space Race

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Blue Origin is going slower than SpaceX, but it also nailed a massive rocket launch on the first try. Jeff Bezos is back in the space race.

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Artificial Intelligence

Bezos Invests in Robot ‘Brains’

Jeff Bezos joined a $400 million fundraising round for Physical Intelligence, which is trying to make AI software that can control any robot.

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