Jeff Bezos

Billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has not publicly responded to letters and messages sent by staffers urging him to curb cuts

Melania is where she wants to be: in the bosom of a corrupt family that is prostituting the People’s House

Amazon studio bought film for $40 million and spent $35 million on marketing

Why do we only talk about alleviating poverty, but not controlling runaway wealth?

Look at the tech bros lined up at Donald Trump’s inauguration: their cumulative wealth has increased from $40 billion to $1 trillion in 13 years

Welcome to the new White House events venue, where dignity is inversely proportional to the quantity of gold

Having invested hugely in AI, companies are now looking for a dividend in terms of lower costs to keep shareholders happy

Sceptics note Tesla boss bought company shares after he had been briefly supplanted by Oracle’s Larry Ellison as world’s richest man

Charlie Kirk’s death sparked heated accusations and arguments across ideological divide

Tough enforcement continues even as tech bosses court the president

‘Billionaires everywhere are used to just making their own rules – Zuckerberg and Chan are not unique, except that they’re our neighbours’

Evan Osnos shows how social media is at the core of Republicans’ drive to destroy human empathy with maximum misinformation and minimum civil discourse

Materialists, Celine Song’s new romcom, is inspired by the film-maker’s time working for an elite New York matchmaking agency

Whether it’s ‘age gracefully’ or ‘don’t die’, both frame time as a threat to be managed through purchasing power

Unthinkable: Toxic positivity may be exacerbating a sense that we’re losing in life

Venmo founder Bryan Johnson and other tech billionaires have set their sights on immortality. Is this as risible as it seems?

We’re no longer shocked by wealth itself – only by the spectacle of loud luxury

There was a time when we seemed to be on the cusp of something remarkable, but it never happened

Reception venue is moved after activists threatened to fill canals with inflatable crocodiles to prevent guests entering city centre building

American tech billionaire set to marry journalist Laura Sanchez in lavish ceremony in Italian city

A windfall like that could go a long way - but not necessarily by superyacht

Wild Geese: Orla McLaughlin, Venice

US president and his family have monetised the White House more than any other occupants, normalising activities that once would have provoked heavy criticism and official investigations

Clear parallels between play about 1950s McCarthyism and how US president is waging war on US news media today

The outgoing Berkshire Hathaway boss kept his letters to shareholders brief and breezy, and owned up to his mistakes

Almost everything shaping US politics in 2025 has been about the pursuit of money

Ultra-simple, ultra-customisable, and ultra-cheap – the EV pick-up intends to upend the car industry

Disclosure comes hours after Amazon warned of impact of Donald Trump’s global trade war

Katy Perry says internet is ‘a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed’ people in message to fans

US president’s supportive moves on crypto-currency may appeal to Stripe’s Collison brothers and Intercom boss Eoghan McCabe

The backlash focused on the faux feminism in the marketing blitz, while genuine concerns about women in science vanished into a black hole

Despite Ireland’s best efforts, the digital tech companies will be pulled into the conflict - this will threaten jobs and could have implications for the way we all use the internet

Bookshops offer something that an exclusively online retailer cannot, but they may need support to compete against a corporate giant

Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez and other celebrities boarding Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight feels like training for billionaires escaping Earth

Katy Perry among those on Blue Origin flight

The most effective pushback against Donald Trump right now is a plunging financial graph

April 5th deadline will ban Chinese app in America unless sold

In the past year, the Amazon founder has executed a sharp public reversal in his relationship with the US president that has surprised even longtime associates

The paper’s billionaire owner has said its opinion pages will in future support and defend ‘two pillars: personal liberties and free markets’

Jeff Bezos-controlled Amazon has taken creative control of the James Bond franchise under a deal with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson