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[{"url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/jeff-bezos-nears-10-billion-funding-round-for-ai-lab-ft-says","status":"bot_blocked_403","notes":"Bloomberg.com returns HTTP 403 to automated clients (standard for the outlet). URL slug (‘jeff-bezos-nears-10-billion-funding-round-for-ai-lab-ft-says’) is consistent with submission framing (Bloomberg relaying Financial Times scoop). All substantive claims attributed to Bloomberg — JPMorgan/BlackRock as backers, $10 billion round at $38 billion valuation, ‘has not yet closed’, FT as original source, $38 billion placing Prometheus among the most richly capitalized AI startups — are cross-verified by both The Next Web and The Decoder reporting on the same Financial Times report."},{"url":"https://thenextweb.com/news/bezos-project-prometheus-10-billion","status":"verified","notes":"Direct verification confirms all claims attributed to The Next Web: Prometheus launched November 2025 with $6.2 billion initial funding; pursuing $10 billion round at $38 billion valuation with JPMorgan and BlackRock; target industries ‘engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, drug discovery, and logistics automation’; ‘over 120 employees drawn from leading AI companies including OpenAI, xAI, Meta, and DeepMind’; Bajaj described as ‘former Google X scientist and co-founder of Foresite Labs’; physical AI positioned as systems that ‘learn through interaction with the real world and understand the laws of physics’ (article verbatim matches submission quote)."},{"url":"https://the-decoder.com/jeff-bezos-nears-10-billion-funding-round-for-ai-lab-project-prometheus/","status":"verified","notes":"Direct verification confirms all claims attributed to The Decoder: $10 billion round at $38 billion valuation, round started November at $6.2 billion and expanded; JPMorgan and BlackRock among investors; Bezos and Vikram Bajaj co-CEOs; first operational role since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021; ‘based in San Francisco with offices in London and Zurich’ (verbatim attribution check passes); holding company plan to acquire industrial businesses — matches submission's $100 billion holding-company framing (article says ‘planning a holding company to acquire businesses that could be transformed by its AI technology’)."}]