Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab
Sunshine, the consumer AI startup founded by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in 2018, has seen brighter days. The small startup is shutting down, and its assets are being sold to a new…
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A Former Apple Luminary Sets Out to Create the Ultimate GPU Software
Writing software for GPUs is also something of a “dark art,” says Waleed Atallah, the cofounder and CEO of Mako, a GPU kernel optimization company. “Mapping an algorithm to a GPU is an…
US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push
Microsoft and Nvidia have unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion dollars into the UK economy, in a move that will bolster the building of more data centers as well as research and…
Singapore early-stage emerging tech startups see 14% rise in deal volume, but funds raised slip 8%
There were 56 deals in 2024, up from 49 a year ago, though funding raised dipped from US$402 million to US$371 million Singapore’s early stage emerging-technology startups saw a 14 per…
Astronomer’s New CEO Speaks—Yes, About That
The only people from Astronomer attending the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 16 were CEO Andy Byron and his head of HR, Kristin Cabot. They were swaying in mid-hug…
How to Become a Vibe Coder
Michael Calore: OK. Lauren Goode: Yeah. But yeah, I'd be curious to see what you come up with. Michael Calore: OK. Lauren Goode: In fact, I'm probably going to quiz you about it on an…
Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?
Sitting a few feet away was Simon Last, one of Notion’s three cofounders. He is gangly and shy, an engineer who has relinquished management responsibilities to focus on being a “super…
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts
The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman…
OpenAI Is Poised to Become the Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be?
OpenAI is reportedly on the verge of a roughly $500 billion valuation, a figure that would make it the most valuable private company in the world—bigger than SpaceX, TikTok’s parent…
Worried AI will replace you? These startups say the opposite
More than half of U.S. workers fear artificial intelligence will take their jobs. Data from the Pew Research Center shows that 52% of its survey respondents worried about being replaced.…
Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not
John Borthwick, CEO of the venture capital firm Betaworks, tells WIRED that he is skeptical about the feasibility and potential effectiveness of many Mamdani campaign proposals—like free…
Why You Can’t Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself
When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It's a natural impulse—after all, if a human makes a mistake,…
Inside Dylan Field’s Big IPO—and His Even Bigger Plans for Figma
When Dylan Field pops up on my Zoom screen, his face is a mixture of giddiness and fatigue. He’s back at work, after a whirlwind trip to New York City where he launched his company Figma…
Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves
But the competitive landscape for AI-assisted coding platforms is crowded. Startups Windsurf, Replit, and Poolside also sell AI code-generation tools to developers. Cline is a popular…
Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule
Would you like to work nearly double the standard 40-hour week? It’s a question that many startups in the US are asking prospective employees—and to get the job, the answer needs to be an…
Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders
Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company founded by top researchers who fled OpenAI, has raised a record $2 billion seed round that values the fledgling firm at $12…
‘The /r/overemployed king’: A serial moonlighter was exposed for holding 19 jobs at Silicon Valley startups
A software engineer became X’s main character last week after being outed as a serial moonlighter at multiple Silicon Valley startups. “PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who…
South Korea wealth fund to boost bets on AI startups, eyes China tech
South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund plans to increase allocations to tech startups and venture capital funds (VCs) as part of its broader push to deepen exposure to artificial intelligence…
Startups are ditching LinkedIn for TikTok to announce funding rounds
The classic funding announcement post is getting the Gen Z treatment. More startups, especially those led by young founders, are moving away from LinkedIn posts or X threads and turning to…
How Private Equity Killed the American Dream
In her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, journalist and WIRED alum Megan Greenwell chronicles the devastating impacts of one of the most powerful…
Venture capital investment is rising in Los Angeles — and not just for AI startups
Early this year, private equity firm Blackstone bet big on the future of artificial intelligence by investing $300 million in a Chatsworth company that’s been around for more than two…
Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs
The FDA gave compounders a grace period to wind down their production of the drugs after the shortage was over. Small pharmacies had until February 18 to comply, while larger outsourcing…
There’s a better way for companies to partner with startups
The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual…
A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection
While working on internet-of-things security in the mid-2010s, Alex Zenla realized something troubling. Unlike PCs and servers that touted the latest, greatest processors, the puny chips…