Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN
July 9, 2026
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5 min readBlue Origin is raising $10 billion in its first outside capital round, valuing the 25-year-old company at roughly $130 billion. Jeff Bezos, who has effectively bootstrapped the rocket company for a quarter century, is putting in $2 billion of his own money. The Saudi-backed investment firm COTU is contributing $4 billion, and the remaining $4 billion will go to other outside investors. The New York Times broke the news, and the timing—during the Sun Valley conference—feels deliberate. Bezos has been the sole funder of Blue Origin since its founding, spending an estimated $27 billion over 25 years, or about $1 billion per year. The company is expected to burn $5 billion this year, so the $10 billion raise covers roughly 12 to 18 months of operations.
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- 1 (00:19) **Blue Origin Raises $10B in First Outside Fundraise** - Jeff Bezos is raising outside capital for the first time in the 25-year-old company's history, with a $130B valuation.
- 2 (04:36) **Apple Scraps Cheaper Vision Pro Display** - Apple has stopped development on a lower-cost display for the Vision Pro, and supplier Samsung Display is expected to end the project by September.
- 3 (09:57) **Getty-Shutterstock $3.7B Merger Called Off** - The UK's Competition and Markets Authority blocked the deal, requiring Shutterstock to sell its editorial business, which Getty refused.
- 4 (17:01) **The World's Creepiest Office: Abandoned IBM Campus** - A Wall Street Journal story about a long-vacant IBM complex in Somers, New York that has become a magnet for "urban explorers" on TikTok and Instagram.
- 5 (19:56) **OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 "Soul" and "Terra" with New Voice Mode** - GPT-5.6 Soul launches publicly Thursday with a full-duplex voice architecture that can listen and speak simultaneously.
- 6 Standout Quotes
- 7 "It's hilarious to think about this 25-year-old company as being previously bootstrapped, but that's technically, what it is, basically." (00:59)
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