The rivalry between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has officially reached the Moon. NASA announced on Tuesday that it had selected Bezos’s Blue Origin to carry out the first in a planned series of three uncrewed lunar missions aimed at preparing for a future Moon base, handing the company a contract worth about $230M. The […]
Elon Musk agrees with what Jeff Bezos says on philanthropy. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, in his interview with CNBC, said his businesses do more good to the society than his charity works. Elon Musk seemed to have agreed with that. “If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit […]
Tech entrepreneur Jeff Bezos’s $200 million donation to the Smithsonian Institution is revolutionizing public education. A significant portion is renovating the National Air and Space Museum, while $130 million establishes a new education center. The world of major cultural philanthropy often views historic gifts as simply acts of self-promotion and impressive architecture. We like to […]
Jeff Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, is working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology on a mission to study asteroid deflection strategies. The initiative, called the Near Earth Objects (NEO) Hunter mission, is designed to incorporate asteroid detection and deflection capabilities into Blue Origin’s ‘Blue Ring’ spacecraft platform. Blue Ring is […]
Global wealth has reached a new milestone. The Hurun Global Rich List 2026 reports that the number of billionaires worldwide has crossed 4,000 for the first time. A total of 4,020 individuals now hold billionaire status, which means 578 more people joined the ranks in just one year. It sounds almost unreal. Experts say roughly […]
MacKenzie Scott donated $26 billion over the past seven years, including a record $7.2 billion in 2025, a pace of giving that makes her the third-largest philanthropist of all time by total lifetime donations, according to Forbes. Scott is a novelist and the former spouse of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. She has distributed the funds […]
The Washington Post Guild created a GoFundMe for more than 300 journalists who were laid off at the mainstay newspaper on Wednesday morning, and said they were overwhelmed by the influx of donations from near and far.The fundraiser, overseen by economics reporter Rachel Siegel and fellow members of the Washington Post Guild, has drawn massive […]
The Washington Post on Wednesday announced sweeping layoffs that will significantly shrink its newsroom. The Post eliminated its sports section, large parts of its foreign coverage and its storied books division, in what current and former staff described as one of the darkest moments in the paper’s history.The cuts, which affect nearly every department, come […]
MacKenzie Scott has revealed that she donated nearly $7.2 billion in 2025, according to an updated post on her Yield Giving platform. The disclosure brings her total lifetime contributions to more than $26 billion. Her latest update includes 225 new grants across education, climate work and community support, continuing her pattern of providing large, unrestricted […]
Congressman Dan Goldman introduced an initiative targeting the ultra-wealthy, calling it the ‘Robinhood’ Act, openly targeting Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos. Tax-free billionaires? Goldman unveiled the Redistribution of Billions by Instituting New High-Income Obligations on Overlooked Debt (ROBINHOOD) Act, a new federal tax aimed at the ultra-wealthy. The legislation seeks to […]
