Nick Wingfield

Seattle

Senior Editor at The Information

Now: Senior Editor, The Information, Before: NYT, WSJ [email protected]

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White House Adviser’s Venture Firm Lays Off Staff, Shifts Focus

2 weeks ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Source: The Information Craft Ventures, the San Francisco venture firm co-founded by White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks, last week laid off a half dozen employees, the firm confirmed. Additionally, the firm’s investors are no longer making seed-stage deals, but will continue to invest across other stages of a company’s lifespan. The departures mainly involved people who handled recruiting efforts for startups in Craft’s portfolio.
Apple Shakes Up AI Leadership After Delays

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Source: BloombergApple has enlisted the help of Mike Rockwell, the leader of its Vision Pro product, to get the company’s struggling artificial intelligence efforts back on track, Bloomberg reported. Rockwell will take over the development of Siri, Apple’s longtime intelligent assistant, from John Giannandrea, the company’s AI chief, Bloomberg reported. The moves reflect Apple CEO Tim Cook’s loss of confidence in Giannandrea’s leadership of AI, Bloomberg reported.
Space Station Astronauts Return to Earth Aboard SpaceX Capsule

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Source: The InformationTwo astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, splashed down off the coast of Florida after an unexpectedly long, nine-month stay on the International Space Station. The duo made their return to earth, along with two other astronauts, aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
Tesla Expresses Tariff Concerns to U.S. Trade Representative

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Source: Financial TimesElon Musk’s Tesla submitted a letter to the U.S. trade representative expressing concerns about the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the electric vehicle maker’s business. According to the Financial Times, a Tesla associate general counsel, Miriam Eqab, submitted the unsigned letter earlier this week after the trade office solicited feedback from U.S. companies on foreign trade policies.
Niantic Sells Games Business to Scopely for $3.5 Billion

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Source: The Information Niantic, the creator of Pokémon Go, is selling its games business to the Saudi-owned mobile developer Scopely for $3.5 billion. In addition, Niantic shareholders will receive $350 million in cash from Niantic’s balance sheet as part of the deal. As part of the transaction, Niantic is spinning out a new company, Niantic Spatial, that will concentrate on artificial intelligence-powered mapping technologies that Niantic has been developing.
Labor Department Investigates Scale AI

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Source: TechCrunchThe U.S. Department of Labor is examining whether Scale AI has violated a federal labor law that governs the minimum wage, overtime pay and whether workers are classified as independent contractors or employees, TechCrunch reported. The investigation has been active since at least August 2024, according to a document viewed by TechCrunch. Scale AI employs hundreds of thousands of freelancers to help train AI systems on behalf of customers.
Flights Halted After SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Explodes

1 month ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Source: The InformationAirports in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and elsewhere in Florida grounded plane flights due to a risk of debris after the explosion of a portion of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The upper stage of Starship experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”—an explosion—during the ascent burn of the rocket, which SpaceX had launched from its base in south Texas, SpaceX said in a post on X.
Can Tech Get Nuclear Power to Move at AI Speeds?

2 months ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Over the past two years, the explosive growth of artificial intelligence has created a dilemma for tech behemoths: How can their data centers meet AI’s mind-boggling need for electricity without befouling the planet in the process? Amazon, for one, may have found an answer to that question 200 miles southeast of its headquarters, on a patch of sagebrush and tumbleweeds in Richland, Wash.
Nuclear Investing, No Longer Radioactive

2 months ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Around the time Jigar Shah became director of the loan programs office at the U.S. Department of Energy, his venture capitalist friends gave him an earful about the idea of investing in nuclear power startups. “Like, 20 of my best friends in 2021 told me, ‘Jigar, we will never, ever in a million years invest in nuclear power,’” said Shah, whose office doled out tens of billions of dollars in loans to clean energy projects, including nuclear. Now, though, that sentiment has flipped completely.
From Fusion to Geothermal, Tech’s Clean Energy Bets Are Multiplying

2 months ago | theinformation.com | Nick Wingfield

Nuclear isn’t the only source of carbon-free power that has energized the tech industry. For years, solar and wind have been mainstays for tech companies looking to reduce the greenhouse gases emitted by their data centers and other operations. The tech industry is also forming partnerships to build power plants that use new technologies to tap geothermal energy, some of which are already operational.