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Nick Wingfield

Nick Wingfield

Senior Editor/Features Editor at The Information

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  • English
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  • Business
  • Technology

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Nuclear Investing, No Longer Radioactive

Around the timeJigar 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 ...
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Can Tech Get Nuclear Power to Move at AI Speeds?

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 ...
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From Fusion to Geothermal, Tech’s Clean Energy Bets Are Multiplying

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 ...
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Sonos CEO is Out After Bungled Software Rollout

The CEO of Sonos, Patrick Spence, is leaving the maker of internet-connected speakers following the introduction of a flawed new app last year that tarnished the company’s reputation. Spence will be replaced by an interim CEO and Sonos board member, Tom Conrad, who previously worked at Quibi, Snap and Pandora. A Sonos announcement said that the company’s board and Spence agreed on the changes.
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Musk Asks for Injunction to Block OpenAI For-Profit Move

Elon Musk asked a court to stop OpenAI from converting to a for profit enterprise and engaging in other behavior that could hurt its rivals, including Musk’s own artificial intelligence startup, xAI. In a filing late Friday, Musk said that the court should halt the for-profit conversion because it violated the terms of Musk’s funding of OpenAI. Unwinding OpenAI after such a conversion would
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Netflix’s Friday Night Fights

Any Friday night plans? A decent number of you will probably tune into tonight’s boxing match on Netflix between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul because you’re curious whether the great heavyweight of the 1980s can, at the age of 58, beat the 27-year-old influencer turned pugilist. Another group of you ...
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Musk Asked Trump to Name SpaceX Execs to Top Government Jobs

Elon Musk suggested to Donald Trump prior to the U.S. presidential election that he hire prominent SpaceX officials as high-ranking government employees, including at the Pentagon, The New York Times reported. Musk’s proposal is a sign of how the SpaceX founder and CEO could play a key role in Trump’s administration, after becoming one of the candidate’s biggest campaign donors. Such a role
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Elon Musk Will Win, No Matter Who Wins the White House

For weeks, Elon Musk has warned voters, as he campaigns for Donald Trump, about the dire consequences of a Kamala Harris administration—for America, civilization and him personally. “If he loses, I’m fucked,” Musk joked in an interview last month with Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host. “ ...
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The Information’s Martin Peers Honored with Loeb Editing Award

This week, The Information's Co-Executive Editor Martin Peers was announced as a winner of a Loeb award—one of the highest honors in business journalism—for his career in editing. The Loeb Foundation asked The Information to write an article about Martin's impact on the industry. We were ...
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Bezos Has No Plans to Bid on Celtics

Jeff Bezos has no plans to bid on the Boston Celtics, according to a person close to Bezos. Since Monday, sports media has been abuzz about the possibility that the billionaire founder of Amazon was considering making an offer for the team, after podcaster Bill Simmons gave credence to the ...
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A Space Startup’s Moon Mining Plans Get a Boost With NASA Grant

A startup that aims to harvest a valuable gas from the moon’s surface and bring it back to Earth by the end of the decade has scored a NASA grant to push its plan forward. The startup, Seattle-based Interlune, said it will use the $348,000 NASA grant to test a critical part of its technology ...