Articles about Project Prometheus

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

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

Podcast

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