Jeff Bezos
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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are attending Monday’s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, NBC News reported. The three tech moguls will be seated together on a platform with other notable guests like Trump’s Cabinet nominees and elected officials, an official told NBC News. Musk, the CEO of Tesla, Space X, and X, formerly known as…
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There has been a furious backlash among staff at The Washington Post following the decision to stop endorsing presidential candidates at elections. The staff union at the newspaper has released a statement, saying they are “deeply concerned” about the decision, particularly given “the role of an editorial board” is, in part, to “endorse candidates to…
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Less than two years after announcing their intention to give away a vast fortune together, billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott and her husband, Dan Jewett, a former science teacher, are parting ways. Scott filed a petition for divorce in the King County Superior Court in Washington state Monday, according to a copy of the filing. The…
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NASA’s Artemis mission to put astronauts back on the Moon by 2024 is running late and getting expensive, an assessment by the space agency’s watchdog has found. A new report by NASA’s inspector general (OIG) found that the agency was likely to overshoot its 2024 target by “several years” as knock-on delays and technical challenges impacted the…
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A mystery bidder paid $28 million at auction Saturday for a seat alongside Jeff Bezos on board the first crewed spaceflight of the billionaire’s company Blue Origin next month. The Amazon founder revealed this week that both he and his brother Mark would take seats on board the company’s New Shepard launch vehicle on July…
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Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, has made the second largest charitable gift in recent history. The Amazon founder is giving $10 billion to a new initiative that will fund programs to combat the effects of climate change, he said in an Instagram post on Monday. The Bezos Earth Fund comes after years of criticism that the…
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U.N. experts have demanded an immediate investigation by U.S. and other authorities into allegations that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was involved in a plot to hack the phone of Amazon boss and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. The U.N. special rapporteurs, Agnes Callamard and David Kaye, said on Wednesday they had information pointing to the…
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Jeff Bezos is taking a fall from his perch as the world’s richest person, mostly because Amazon’s stock price has fallen. That cut into Bezos’ wealth, Bloomberg reports, though not so you’d notice. Bezos is at $107.1 billion at the moment, about $300 million less than Gates, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It’s the first time Microsoft’s…
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