The company has collected $170 million in new capital as it seeks to help connect data centers and other businesses in the age of artificial intelligence.
The accident happened just weeks after the company cut a deal with the U.S. government to avoid taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.
Mr. O’Neal, a correspondent for The Economist, will be in charge of championing “personal liberties and free markets,” the section’s new direction laid out by Jeff Bezos.