Articles about Jeff Bezos

AWS is ‘booming,’ but Amazon’s free cash flow turns negative on record AI spending

Amazon reported $200.6 billion in second-quarter revenue, up 20%, with AWS growing 37%, its fastest pace since the end of 2021. Free cash flow turned negative for the first time since 2023 as the company poured money into AI data centers. Read More

Amazon earnings preview: Wall Street looks for more cloud growth as AI spending hits a record

Amazon reports second-quarter results Thursday afternoon, with AWS growth expected to accelerate and capital spending on pace for a record $200 billion this year. The big question: How much patience do investors have left for the company’s bet on AI? Read More

Jeff Bezos says this business is becoming Amazon’s next ‘pillar’

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says the company’s custom AI chip business is poised to become its next “pillar,” joining Marketplace, Prime, and AWS as one of Amazon’s foundational businesses as the tech giant doubles down on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Read More

Jeff Bezos reportedly joining bid to buy stake in English soccer giant Liverpool FC

Jeff Bezos is reportedly part of an investment group seeking to buy a 30% stake in Liverpool FC, potentially giving the Amazon founder his first ownership interest in a major professional sports franchise. Read More

SpaceX leapfrogs Amazon and briefly tops Microsoft in market value on Cursor acquisition news

Shares of SpaceX surged Tuesday, pushing the Elon Musk-led company above Amazon and into a neck-and-neck race with Microsoft for the title of the world’s fourth-most valuable public company less than a week after its blockbuster $75 billion IPO. Read More

Bezos’ AI startup Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation, and the CEOs explain what they’re doing

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a roughly $41 billion valuation. The co-CEOs discussed the company’s plans in their first joint interview. Read More

Zillow co-founder and Seattle tech icon Rich Barton takes up residence in Las Vegas

Rich Barton, who co-founded Zillow and Expedia in the Seattle area, says he’s now officially a Las Vegas resident, citing an empty nest and a new chapter. His move comes amid a heated debate over Washington’s new taxes on wealthy residents. Read More

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SpaceX IPO filing reveals Starlink’s impact, Bezos sounds off on CNBC, and Gemini owes John a beer

SpaceX’s IPO filing includes new details about the Starlink satellite factory in Redmond. Jeff Bezos talks wealth, inequality, and AI on CNBC. And John turns to ChatGPT and Gemini when FIFA’s ticketing support falls short. Read More

SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other tidbits from its IPO filing

SpaceX disclosed in its S-1 filing that its Redmond, Wash., facility produces approximately 70 Starlink satellites per week, putting hard production numbers on the operation for the first time. The filing also reveals Starlink’s financials and names several Pacific Northwest companies as competitors. Read More

Jeff Bezos describes his $38B startup Prometheus for the first time: ‘Nothing to do with robotics’

In a CNBC interview, Jeff Bezos offered the most detailed public description yet of Project Prometheus, calling the secretive startup an “artificial general engineer” building next-generation design tools for physical objects. Read More

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture reportedly considers seeking outside investment for the first time

The Financial Times quotes sources as saying external fundraising might be needed to support increased launch cadence. Read More

Amazon payments to Bezos’ Blue Origin reach $1.8B as shareholders cite conflicts of interest

Amazon paid about $1.8 billion last year to Blue Origin, the aerospace company owned by its founder and board chair Jeff Bezos — nearly triple the amount the year before — as shareholders weigh a proposal citing his business interests outside Amazon as potential conflicts of interest. Read More

Stop trying to make people read instructions: 10 startup lessons from Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis

Convoy co-founder and Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dan Lewis drew on his experience building the one-time unicorn trucking startup to share lessons for entrepreneurs at this week’s Seattle AI Startup Summit. Read More

AWS at 20*: Inside the rise of Amazon’s cloud empire, and what’s at stake in the AI era

With Amazon marking the 20th anniversary of AWS this month, GeekWire spoke with early builders, current AWS insiders, and longtime observers of the company to tell the story of how the business got started, how it won the cloud, and what it’s up against now. Read More

Illustration: Amazon Leo network connections creating a web around Earth

Why Amazon’s second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds

When news emerged this week that Amazon is working on a new smartphone, the reflexive reaction was obvious: Didn’t they already try this? But dismissing the effort as a sequel to the Fire Phone disaster misses the point. Read More

Ballmer? Bezos? Sir Mix-a-Lot? Seahawks sale draws more hot takes on potential owners and price

The Seattle Seahawks have been officially for sale for a day, but the speculation about who could be the next owner of the team has been in high gear for years. National media personalities are now playing catch-up. Read More

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post slashes hundreds of jobs — including newspaper’s Amazon reporter

Technology reporter Caroline O’Donovan, covered Amazon at the Post for almost four years and previously wrote an award-winning investigation at BuzzFeed into Amazon’s delivery network. Read More

The rise and fall of Amazon’s homegrown stores: A decade of retail experiments comes full circle

The closure of the Amazon Go and Fresh stores is the end of an era for the online giant. We trace how Amazon got here — and why the only stores left are the chain it acquired. Read More

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Microsoft’s private OpenAI emails, Satya’s new AI catchphrase, and the rise of physical AI startups

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Newly unsealed court documents reveal the behind-the-scenes history of Microsoft and OpenAI, including a surprise: Amazon Web Services was the Silicon Valley AI lab’s original partner. We tell the story behind the story, explaining how it came to light. Read More

Will Bezos step in? FBI searches Wash. Post reporter’s home in classified materials investigation

Federal agents seized electronic devices from reporter Hannah Natanson, who covers the federal workforce for the newspaper. Read More

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Bezos is back in startup mode, Amazon gets weird again, and the great old-car tech retrofit debate

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Jeff Bezos steps back into startup life as co-CEO of a new AI venture. Plus, Amazon’s surprising experiment at Seattle-area thrift stores, and a debate over GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop’s plan to bring new tech to his old car. Read More

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Jeff Bezos reportedly joining bid to buy stake in English soccer giant Liverpool FC

SpaceX leapfrogs Amazon and briefly tops Microsoft in market value on Cursor acquisition news

Bezos’ AI startup Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation, and the CEOs explain what they’re doing

Zillow co-founder and Seattle tech icon Rich Barton takes up residence in Las Vegas

SpaceX IPO filing reveals Starlink’s impact, Bezos sounds off on CNBC, and Gemini owes John a beer

SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other tidbits from its IPO filing

Jeff Bezos describes his $38B startup Prometheus for the first time: ‘Nothing to do with robotics’

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture reportedly considers seeking outside investment for the first time

Amazon payments to Bezos’ Blue Origin reach $1.8B as shareholders cite conflicts of interest

Stop trying to make people read instructions: 10 startup lessons from Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis

Why Amazon’s second shot at a smartphone might not be as crazy as it sounds

Ballmer? Bezos? Sir Mix-a-Lot? Seahawks sale draws more hot takes on potential owners and price

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post slashes hundreds of jobs — including newspaper’s Amazon reporter

The rise and fall of Amazon’s homegrown stores: A decade of retail experiments comes full circle

Microsoft’s private OpenAI emails, Satya’s new AI catchphrase, and the rise of physical AI startups

Will Bezos step in? FBI searches Wash. Post reporter’s home in classified materials investigation

Bezos is back in startup mode, Amazon gets weird again, and the great old-car tech retrofit debate

Jeff Bezos takes co-CEO role at secretive AI startup Project Prometheus

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on failure, reinvention, and his second act at Amazon

‘It’s culture’: Amazon CEO says massive corporate layoffs were about agility — not AI or cost-cutting

Neil Young plans to pull his music off Amazon as he calls out Jeff Bezos for supporting Trump

Jeff Bezos says orbital data centers will be the ‘next step’ for space ventures that make Earth better

The space race is tightening up for Blue Origin and SpaceX, and for America and China

Robotics startup FieldAI, backed by Gates and Bezos, hits $2B valuation after latest funding

Jackie Bezos, mother of Amazon founder, dies at 78

Jeff Bezos picks retired Amazon exec as the new CEO of his $10B Bezos Earth Fund