Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as from strategic and institutional investors for his three — and counting — startups. If the…
Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding, including from a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers. …
Laureen Knudsen helps professionals navigate AI-era career disruption. Fortune 1000 transformation executive and Top 100 Women in Tech. gettyThis fall, HR leaders across the country will be handed a mandate: Reduce headcount. The rationale will be familiar. AI is handling work that used to require full teams. Margins are under pressure. Leadership wants to move…
Nine California jurors are now deliberating over the future of OpenAI, the world-leading artificial intelligence lab. While the trial exploring Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI’s other cofounders and Microsoft has covered territory ranging from the breakup of the founders in 2018 to Altman’s firing and rehiring in 2023, the jurors will be considering a set…
Image Credits:Getty Images 2:30 PM PDT · May 14, 2026 Elon Musk’s newly rebranded SpaceXAI is reportedly losing top talent, with more than 50 researchers and engineers departing since February, according to The Information. The exits include key leaders across coding, world models, and Grok voice. Rivals like Meta and Thinking Machine Labs are reportedly…
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Wenbin Jiang, CEO and Co-Founder of Cytek Biosciences, Inc. gettyAs someone who has spent the last decade driving the advancement of flow cytometry technology and its real-world applications, I have seen firsthand how profoundly this technology shapes outcomes beyond the lab. When leading a healthcare or biotech organization, you realize that every technology decision carries…
On an overcast April day in the middle of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, Paul Lwin looks like he’s playing a vintage video game. He huddles over a laptop on the deck of the spartan vessel he’s taking out on the water today. Tiny boat icons float across the screen; he draws a box around them,…
Productivity software maker Notion is stepping into the agentic era. In a live-streamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company, known best for its collaborative note-taking app, introduced a new developer platform that extends the capabilities of its custom AI agents, connects with external agents, and allows teams to build automated multi-step workflows that can pull…
Fervo Energy, the geothermal energy startup, saw its market valuation surpass $10 billion in its public market debut, an increase driven by demand for AI data centers — and the energy that can power them. Fervo had raised $1.89 billion in an upsized initial public offering on Wednesday, which initially valued the company at around…





