Jeff Bezos

Amazon founder Bezos returns to CEO role with AI startup

Project Prometheus will reportedly focus on applying AI to engineering and manufacturing

AI is going to change every industry and improve productivity of “every company in the world,” Amazon.com chairman Jeff Bezos said.

AI spending boom is a bubble that will pay off: Bezos

[TURIN] Amazon.com chairman Jeff Bezos said that the spending on artificial intelligence resembles an “industrial bubble” that could lead to lost investment but will also make society better off.

Jackie Bezos (left) has died at her home in Miami on Thursday.
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Jackie Bezos, who funded her son Jeff’s startup, dies at 78

The Bezos Family Foundation has backed hundreds of other organisations, primarily focused on kids and young adults

The Amazon chairman still owns about 884 million shares, or more than 8% of the company.

Jeff Bezos wraps up massive Amazon share sale, netting US$5.7 billion

The divestitures come as the company stock has surged 38% from its recent low in late April

Since 2002, Bezos has unloaded Amazon shares worth about US$44 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Bezos unloads US$737 million of Amazon stock in year’s first sale

The CEO often sells his company shares to fund Blue Origin, the space company he started in 2000 

The S&P 500 has lost 6.4 per cent since Trump took office, as mass layoffs of government employees and the president’s back-and-forth on tariffs have roiled equities.

Billionaires at Trump’s swearing-in have since lost US$209 billion

The companies behind the inauguration attendees’ fortunes have been some of the biggest losers, dropping a combined US$1.39 trillion in market value since Jan 17

Jeff Bezos, who started Amazon.com and is the world’s third-richest person, founded Blue Origin in 2000.

Bezos’ rocket firm bracing for job cuts after years of expansion

Blue Origin maintains an ambitious space portfolio that includes space tourism, a moon lander, space station and supplying rocket engines

(From left) Priscilla Chan, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the US Capitol, Washington, D.C., Jan 20, 2025.

Tech billionaires take centre stage at Trump inauguration

US TECH multibillionaires - including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos - were given prime positions at Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, in an unprecedented demonstration of their power ...

Thirty storeys tall with a reusable first stage, New Glenn launched around 2 am ET (0700 GMT) from Blue Origin’s launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Bezos’ Blue Origin reaches orbit in first New Glenn launch, misses booster landing

BLUE Origin’s giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday (Jan 16) morning on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit for Jeff Bezos’ space company as it ai...

Jeff Bezos (above), ultimately, remains optimistic about Trump’s space policy.

Bezos says space industry has room for ‘multiple winners’

AMAZON-FOUNDER and billionaire Jeff Bezos said the space industry has room for “multiple winners”, including his own firm Blue Origin and the company it most hopes to challenge, Elon Musk’s SpaceX.