TechCrunch Daily Crunch Blue Origin enters the space data center game
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Mar 21, 2026 Coverage of Bezos' ambitious $100B industrial AI play and the Prometheus startup aiming at manufacturing and engineering models. A Reuters scoop on Amazon building a smartphone centered on Alexa and AI. Blue Origin filing for a solar-powered orbital data center and why compute in space appeals. Amazon buying River to scale stair-climbing delivery robots.
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Bezos Seeks $100B To Automate Industry With AI
- Jeff Bezos is raising a $100B fund to buy industrial companies and modernize them with AI via his Prometheus startup.
- Prometheus launched with $6.2B and targets aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing to deploy high-level AI models.
Amazon Working On An AI-Centric Smartphone
- Amazon is reportedly developing a new smartphone codenamed Transformer focused on deep Alexa and AI integration.
- The device is built by ZeroOne under Jay Allard to push Amazon's apps and AI features to users.
Blue Origin Proposes Orbiting Data Centers
- Blue Origin proposes Project Sunrise: 50+ satellites acting as in-orbit data centers to shift energy-intensive compute away from Earth.
- They plan to link the compute satellites to a TerraWave communications backbone and harvest solar power in orbit.