News about Jeff Bezos

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, took first place on Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires list of the world’s wealthiest individuals, with a net worth of $1.1 trillion. His net worth exceeds the combined net worth of his four closest competitors on the list.

Prometheus, a startup founded by Jeff Bezos and Vic Bajaj, raised $12 billion in a Series B funding round at a valuation of $41 billion.

During testing on May 28, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad – days before a planned launch of Internet satellites for Amazon. The incident was another major blow to Jeff Bezos’ space program.

The New Glenn rocket of Blue Origin, owned by US billionaire Jeff Bezos, exploded during a firing test of the engines on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida.

The rivalry between Ilon Musk (SpaceX) and Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin), which began with a fight over space contracts, has evolved into a social responsibility for “the future of all mankind” and his staff, in particular. According to the Financial Times, Jeff Bezos is now reviewing Blue Origin’s employee incentives system ahead of SpaceX’s IPO.

Jeff Bezos’ Amazon plans to invest up to $25 billion in startup Anthropic, strengthening its position in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence market. The deal becomes one of the largest in the industry and emphasizes the scale of competition between the tech giants.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos published on April 20 in the network X video of the successful landing of the reusable booster rocket New Glenn. This is the company’s key project in the segment of heavy launches.

American billionaire Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, is seeking funds for the development of a startup Project Prometheus, which aims to use artificial intelligence in various areas of production to improve the efficiency of specialized industries.

Amazon founder and one of the richest people in the world Jeff Bezos, along with Lauren Sanchez, has been appointed honorary co-chair of the Met Gala-2026, an event that annually brings together the world’s political, cultural and business elite in New York. Experts believe that the tech billionaire’s participation reflects the growing influence of IT capital on the art and fashion industries.

Virgin Galactic is preparing to re-activate the direction of space tourism and occupy the vacated niche in the market of suborbital flights. This was announced by the founder of the company, British entrepreneur Richard Branson during a speech at a space conference in London.

Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Technology Corporation has scrapped its Blue Jay robotic system project designed to automate warehouse logistics, according to Logos Press.

While many of the richest people in the U.S. are focused on multiplying their capital, some are actively sharing their wealth with the public, Logos Press reported.

If the space race used to be an arena of states, now it has turned into a duel of super-rich entrepreneurs of the XXI century. The competition between Ilon Musk and Jeff Bezos has reached a new level: now the billionaires are fighting over the moon, according to Logos Press.

On Thursday, February 12, the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully sent a heavy version of an Ariane 6 rocket into space from the Kourou launch site in French Guiana with Amazon satellites, Logos Press reports.