Blue Origin reportedly raising B at 0B valuation

Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation

Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space rocket company Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself, and other large investors, The New York Times reported. Coatue is expected to invest about $4 billion in the round, which would be Blue Origin’s first external fundraise. Bezos is said…

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Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at ,950

Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950

Slate Auto, the EV startup backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has finally revealed the starting price of its electric truck: $24,950. That’s excluding taxes, title, license, registration, governmental fees, destination charges, documentation fees, and any optional equipment, according to the company. Slate started taking pre-orders for the truck on Wednesday. Crucially, Slate also said that…

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Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is…

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Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit, announced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation. The new funds came from Bezos himself, as well as from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, among others. This is the second fundraise…

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