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Founder of Amazon and its executive chairman, founder of space company Blue Origin, funder of the Bezos Earth Fund, and owner of The Washington Post.
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Blue Origin's first outside raise reached $10 billion at a $140 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported, with Bezos putting in $2 billion. About $8 billion of outside money is pricing a company whose rocket has not flown since a May pad explosion.
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Bezos Earth Fund has granted about $2.4 billion of Jeff Bezos's $10 billion climate pledge, leaving $7.6 billion to give away by the end of 2030. Meeting that deadline takes about $1.8 billion a year from a fund still paying out ocean grants in rounds of tens of millions.
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Donald Trump said AI leaders signed a voluntary review accord on September 29, though none of the eight executives at the meeting is a confirmed signer. As he described it, oversight rests on company self-policing and existing DOJ and FBI powers.
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Google's MVP satellite takes four TPUs and about 1 kW of solar power into orbit to test whether AI chips survive radiation and shed their own heat. Its results will show whether rebooting away bit flips and cooling through a radiator can carry into the constellations Google has already sketched.
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Prime Air's sixfold expansion is a real escalation of the last-mile fight with Walmart. It is also still a rounding error on Amazon's parcel volume, and the economics remain unproven.
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Google flies one server's worth of TPUs on 1 kilowatt of solar power on Oct. 1, its first hardware test for orbital AI data centers. The flight tests chip survival and cooling while SpaceX's and Blue Origin's far larger constellations still wait on FCC review.
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Jensen Huang, Lisa Su and Elon Musk held three of ten seats at Trump's table with Xi Jinping as the two governments bargain over chips and tariffs. Supply plans ride on those talks; the proposed AI-incident channel is still too early to plan compliance around.
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James Stanier's status report said the feature was live and enabled for all customers, and it was. Adoption was awful because the sidebar holding it stayed shut until a user thought to open it.
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The Bridgewater founder said in a video for the World Economic Forum that over-investment in world-changing technology creates debt and then a bubble and then a bust. Fortune puts the dotcom version at a 77% Nasdaq fall.
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Twenty-two countries adopted a UN declaration on human oversight of AI systems this week. The United States and China spent Sunday discussing a bilateral risk-notification channel of their own.
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A Milken Institute report says heirs are pushing their parents to give money away faster. Its evidence is a practitioner's observation and Scott's $26 billion, set against $18.3 trillion of billionaire wealth.
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California's Proposition 40 would take a one-time 5% of billionaire net worth, and at that rate the $29 billion Fortune estimates the measure loses to departures implies about $580 billion of net worth has already changed address.
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A feasibility estimate in Frontiers in Space Technologies divides the lunar polar ice by what a large population would consume. At the inventory the authors call current, the settlements that last for centuries hold 1,000 to 10,000 people.
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Fortune reports that 19 of Florida's 20 richest billionaires live in Miami-Dade County. The bootstrapped Miami Beach office project chasing that money asks rents worth 28.5% of its stated $100 million cost every year.
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The FAQ says "for now," but the preorder terms already ask where you live, and for a pickup whose whole argument is the sticker price, a Canadian tariff would eat the advantage faster than any missing feature.
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The base truck ships with hand cranks and a 65kWh pack quoted at 205 miles, which is far more than the average 35-mile day needs. The open question is whether Americans spec for their commute or their road trip.
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The banner says the closure is permanent. Requesters who wired human review into their stack get 35 days, and the firms that replaced MTurk do not sell what MTurk sold.
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The startup says its neural-operator model took 5 trillion data units in one prompt. It has published no test protocol, no benchmark and no customers, and a rival raised $12 billion.
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The Information reports a valuation more than 50% above the last round, with a licensing arrangement considered alongside it. Buyers of AI search should read the roadmap as supplier-driven.
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A reported check into a company that rents its compute instead of buying GPUs pushes the circular financing question one step further from anything a filing will show.
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