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• Some companies have scaled back early-career hiring due to AI or economic concerns.
• In contrast, these seven companies are expanding entry-level engineering talent.
• IBM said it's tripling entry-level hires in 2026, and Cognizant is quadrupling its

• Fermi, a data center startup, has pitched itself as a utility built to power the AI boom.
• But the company is a REIT, a corporate structure that limits how much power it can sell.
• In the world of AI, companies aren't just pitching power — they're pitching a financial structure.

At a Wall Street conference in December, Toby Neugebauer, the CEO of Fermi America, pitched his company

Starting later this year, Apple will start manufacturing Mac minis meant for sale in the US within the country. The company took The Wall Street Journal on a tour of its Houston facility, where Foxconn is also building servers for Apple Intelligence, and was shown an empty warehouse. Apple says it will turn the space into a 220,000 square feet plant where it will produce the compact desktop

• Nerine Mak left her role at TikTok in 2023 to travel the world on a motorbike.
• She joined TikTok in 2019 after starting her career at Ernst & Young and Sephora.
• Now traveling with her partner, she does ad hoc legal work while exploring new cultures.

This as-told-to essay is based on an interview with Nerine Mak, a 33-year-old former senior commercial counsel for

Whether you’re on back-to-back video meetings, live streaming or just trying to look presentable on a family call, your webcam matters more than most might expect. The cameras built into laptops are fine in a pinch, but they rarely deliver consistent image quality, especially in less-than-ideal lighting. A dedicated webcam can noticeably improve sharpness, color accuracy and overall reliability.

• OpenAI employees are among the most well-compensated in Silicon Valley.
• The AI lab has continued to hire abroad despite President Donald Trump's H-1B visa fee.
• Here's a look at base pay across key roles, based on federal filings.

Earlier this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the AI lab would "dramatically slow down"

• Letter AI has raised $40 million and is now valued in the hundreds of millions.
• The sales software startup uses AI to deliver real-time, deal-specific guidance.
• It secured back-to-back funding rounds amid rapid revenue growth, its CEO, Ali Akhtar, said.

Y Combinator startup Letter AI has raised $40 million in fresh funding just four months after its $10

• A new report said that nearly one out of every five student-loan borrowers is in default.
• Trump's Education Department said the rise in defaults is due to Biden's relief measures.
• Defaulted borrowers are at risk of Social Security and tax

• New data showed which jobs had the highest fatal work injury rates in 2024.
• Logging workers had a rate of over 100 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers.
• The rate for all workers was just 3.3 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers.

Being a logging worker can be deadly.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released last week the results from the 2024 Census of

• Kraft Heinz got "too lean" after budget cuts over the past decade, CEO Steve Cahillane said.
• The company behind Kool-Aid and Lunchables cut costs under private-equity ownership.
• Now, Kraft Heinz is looking to reinvest in its business and improve its financial results.

Kraft Heinz