Jeff Bezos rejects AI job loss fears, says technology will create a 'labor shortage' instead

At a time when companies worldwide are trimming jobs and embracing AI, Amazon's Jeff Bezos has offered a different outlook. Speaking at a technology conference in Paris, the billionaire argued that AI ...
The Conversation

Love life: David Hockney, the artist who forced Britain to make room for colour, joy and queerness

Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval. Hockney ...
The Verge

Jeff Bezos’ AI startup aims to build an ‘artificial general engineer’

Prometheus will develop AI-powered engineering tools for robotics, drug design, manufacturing, and more. Prometheus will develop AI-powered engineering tools for robotics, drug design, manufacturing, ...
Ars Technica

Here’s what Jeff Bezos’ new startup Prometheus will do

In November, Jeff Bezos announced that he would become co-CEO of a new startup called Prometheus. At the time, the startup said it would focus on “physical AI”—an increasingly common term for applying ...
SiliconANGLE

Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus raises $12B to accelerate industrial engineering projects

Prometheus Inc., an artificial intelligence startup co-led by Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in funding. Axios reported today that the Series B round values the company at ...
The Next Web

Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

Bezos’s Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. It builds AI for engineering physical products with 150 employees. Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by ...
Wall Street Journal

Bezos Bats Down AI Job Loss Fears While Launching New Venture

Jeff Bezos said he expects artificial intelligence to create a “labor shortage in the economy,” rejecting fears that the fast-evolving technology will put humans out of work as he launches a new ...
CNBC

Prometheus co-CEO Jeff Bezos: AI will result in labor scarcity, will raise standard of living

Prometheus co-founders and co-CEOs Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj sit down with CNBC's David Faber to talk Prometheus' strategy, the role AI plays in that strategy, its recent fundraising, and much more.

Bezos opens up about AI startup Prometheus after $12 billion raise: 'We're not being secretive'

Prometheus is Jeff Bezos' AI startup that launched in November with $6.2 billion in funding. Vik Bajaj is his co-CEO.
GeekWire

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

Prometheus co-CEOs Vik Bajaj and Jeff Bezos speak with CNBC’s David Faber in San Francisco on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Jeff Bezos has bankrolled his Blue Origin space venture on his own, selling ...
TechCrunch

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 York Times

Jeff Bezos Wants to Build an ‘Artificial General Engineer’

As co-chief executive of the start-up Prometheus, the Amazon founder is using A.I. to improve how devices ranging from computers to jet engines are made. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco ...