Fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised $863 million from a long list of investors that includes Nvidia, Google, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and more. “We’re continuing our trend here of looking into the world and saying, ‘How do we advance fusion as fast as possible?’” co-founder and CEO Bob Mumgaard told reporters in a…
Google-backed nuclear startup Kairos Power has entered into an agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority to supply up to 50 megawatts of electricity from its Hermes 2 reactor to the grid in Tennessee and Alabama by 2030. Kairos Power and Google say the deal is the first time a U.S. utility has committed to buying…
August 26, 1991: In their first joint interview, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates trade barbs and debate “the future of the PC” in Fortune magazine. The spirited discussion marks 10 years since the first IBM PC shipped. The piece also looks at what the future holds for both men — described as the former “boy…
Bill Gates-backed Terrapower is looking for land to potentially build a nuclear reactor and energy storage plant in Utah. On Monday, the company announced signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Utah Office of Energy Development and land developer Flagship Companies. As per the MOU, the three companies will together search for a potential site suitable…
1.In 2021, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage. It came as a shock, given how long they had been together. Their split resulted in an estimated $76 billion settlement, making it the most expensive divorce in history. Instead of one lump sum, the settlement largely involved the transfer…
Cao Ting, a leading artificial intelligence researcher and former research manager at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), has left the US tech giant to join Tsinghua University, as AI becomes a new front in the US-China tech rivalry. According to the university’s website, Cao left MSRA in July to join Tsinghua’s Institute for AI Industry Research…
CEOs with major controlling stakes in their billion-dollar companies have the power to make themselves richer and richer, but one 82-year-old tech leader isn’t cashing in for herself. Judy Faulkner, the CEO of Epic Systems, has been selling her non-voting shares back to the company—and redirecting the profits elsewhere. “I’ve never cashed a single share…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates spent decades in shaping the tech world, but there’s still a job that Bill Gates would never want. During a mock interview with NBA star Stephen Curry in 2020, Bill Gates talked about his professional preferences and admitted that there’s one Job role that he’d prefer to avoid which is of…
During job interviews, it is commonly asked, “Why should we hire you?” and “What are your salary expectations?” Now, you can use Bill Gates’, Microsoft co-founder, tips to crack interviews and get your dream job. In a unique role-playing exercise, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates transformed into a young college dropout, simulating the experience of a…
Their answer became Speed Rack, the world’s first and only all-female and femme speed bartending competition–a speed rack is also part of a bar to place liquor for quick handling. Now in its thirteenth year, Speed Rack, featuring “Women shaking up the cocktail world,” is part of a larger movement ensuring nobody else wonders where…