Category: Start-ups

Young Consultants Are Jumping Ship for A.I. Start-Ups

The New York Times – Business:
Beckoned by the glamour of the start-up space, the industry’s college recruits are joining A.I. companies able to outmatch their consulting salaries.
Rivian C.E.O. RJ Scaringe Has Some Ideas for How to Make More Cars in America

The New York Times – Business:
RJ Scaringe thinks it will take robots, tariffs and diplomacy to maintain a manufacturing base in the United States.
In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Having a Moment Again

The New York Times – Business:
As A.I. transforms the technology industry, venture capital is flowing into “deep tech” start-ups that build robots and semiconductors.
Money Is Flowing Into Space Start-Ups. Some Investors See a SpaceX Effect.

The New York Times – Business:
Open Cosmos, a European satellite maker, has raised $346 million, part of a wave of recent funding deals in the space sector.
After the I.P.O., a Billion-Dollar Bill for Employee Paydays

The New York Times – Business:
A compensation strategy at start-ups keeps expenses low until they go public. At that point, the companies may face billions of dollars in catch-up expenses.
Justice Dept. Investigates Nvidia Deal With Groq

The New York Times – Business:
The Justice Department is examining whether the tech giant sought to sidestep antitrust scrutiny.
French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift

The New York Times – Business:
Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
U.S. Start-Up Partners With Saudi Arabia for Data Center

The New York Times – Business:
Together AI, which serves open-source artificial intelligence models, announced a deal to use compute from Humain in Saudi Arabia, where it can bypass U.S. backlash over data centers.
Help Wanted: ‘Forward-Deployed’ Humans for the A.I. Era

The New York Times – Business:
Start-ups are using the military-derived term to glorify customer-facing work as clients seek people to help set up artificial intelligence tools.
Benjamin Rosen, Who Brought Venture Capital to Tech, Dies at 93

The New York Times – Business:
An advocate for Apple on Wall Street, he was also a founding investor in early personal computing firms like Lotus and Compaq, where he served as chairman.
Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails

The New York Times – On the Runway:
Irregular, an Israeli start-up, worked with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to assess the security of their A.I. models. It made a mistake. Then the tests went off the rails.
This A.I. Start-Up Aims to Reverse the Backlash Against Data Centers

The New York Times – Business:
Emerald AI, now valued at $1.05 billion, uses software to keep power demand at the computing facilities from getting out of control.