It was the day after the Fall Equinox, and we were partying on a rooftop, pulling tarot cards about our love lives. The location might surprise you: a venture capital firm’s office overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Wait, what’s astrology got to do with venture capital? We were at a launch party for a social-astrology app
This As They Told It essay is based on a conversation with Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, co-founder and CEO of water lily. It has been edited for length and clarity. As a child, I was fascinated by the universe and wanted to understand how the world worked. Science taught me that even the most important and
As AI chips become more powerful (and hotter), data centers are turning to liquid instead of air to cool servers. For newer AI systems, fans alone cannot remove enough heat. That change has created a new problem: preventing the coolant from degrading or becoming contaminated. Omen AI announced a $31 million funding round in June
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series F round, with more investors expected to join soon. “In the coming weeks, a few more investors will arrive and the second lockdown is likely to end,” Rodrigo Liang, CEO
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aashna Doshi, a 23-year-old former Google software engineer based in New York City. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I took a big risk to get my Google job. Now I’m taking another one by leaving it. Around February 2024, months before graduating
When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility that, Resnick estimates, won’t be fully set up until later in the year—potentially November. Still, the big (and for now, largely empty) building offers the promise of a fast-growing company intent on conquering its particular
