Jeff Bezos
Amazon’s $16.3 billion deal amps up rivalry with Elon Musk
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is buying satellite operator Globalstar in a landmark deal to step up competition with SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk in the satellite communications market.
- Michelle F. Davis, Ryan Gould, Loren Grush, Matt Day and Bruce Einhorn
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Who says money can’t buy happiness? Meet the unabashedly happy Mrs Sánchez Bezos
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologising, and start enjoying themselves.
- Amy Chozick
- Opinion
- AI
A smackdown for the ages at the Oscars after-party, and AI was the spark
A successful playwright chose the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party to accuse OpenAI chief Sam Altman of wilfully allowing his technology to be an agent in global violences.
- Maureen Dowd
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Charity
The million-plus students cut off from computers in this age of billionaire excess
Once, mothers’ clubs quietly helped students do their homework. Today, companies are being asked to donate disused computers for the same purpose.
- Tony Wright
‘Billionaire bunker’ blooms as Zuckerberg moves house
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has joined the exodus of the ultrarich out of California seeking to avoid a new “wealth tax” by moving to a luxury private island.
- Lily Shanagher
- Analysis
- Media & marketing
What’s really behind the gutting of the Washington Post?
The “catastrophic” cuts to the newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal come at a time when scrutiny of those in power has never been more important.
- Michael Koziol
‘Bloodbath’: Washington Post axes a third of its staff
After a company-wide online meeting, staff members began receiving emails with one of two subject lines.
- David Bauder
Melania, panned by some film critics, opens with strongest documentary debut in a decade
There was little to compare it to, given that presidential families typically eschew in-office memoir releases to avoid the appearance of capitalising on the White House.
- Jake Coyle
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Melania’s $107m infomercial leaves no doubts about the real motivations of the first lady
Many have fantasised that Melania Trump was Rapunzel in the tower, pining to be saved from the ogre. This movie, which earns her at least $US28 million, tells us what we need to know about her.
- Maureen Dowd
Goodbye puffer vests: The haute couture glow-up of Jeff Bezos
The Amazon billionaire and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos are becoming front-row fixtures at Paris Fashion Week.
- Damien Woolnough