Emerging companies and the United States government: they are complicated

It enhances a tie between startups and the US government in recent years, which is a backed transformation of attention to the use of artificial intelligence, automation, space, robots and defense climate technology. Although this has provided another welcoming path, the relationship has become complicated.

An increasing share of startups has the US government as customers, or aims at defense permits and contracts. When the government operates, this call can provide a required payment and revenue for startups. But when the government stops working, as it started on October 1, it can strangle these close relations or even stop progressing for startups.

this week justiceAnthony Ha, Max Ziv, and I (Kirsten Corussec) talk about how the US government is closing for a longer risk period for emerging companies than in the past – not to mention a inhibitor situation in the active public subscription season. Drilling three of us on some other topics as well, including how artificial intelligence companies are trying to income and the latest batch of the United States government to take ownership shares in the technical and industrial sectors.

“This also seems a reflection of how the emerging scene in the past decade, especially during the past few years,” said, adding that the focus has been on the online emerging companies for consumers for a long time. “It is clear that there is a lot that happens in defense technology, and a lot of deep things as you may need different types of organizational approvals.” “Thus, it seems to be wider spaces than the start -up scene that now depends on the government in various ways, in ways that were not necessarily correct 10 years ago.”

But they are not only startups. The Trump administration also continued to extend its arrival and kingdom to the technology industry as well.

أعدت إدارة ترامب قرضًا اتحاديًا آخر – إنه ثالث في الأشهر الأخيرة تليها واحدة مع شركة Intel و Rare Earth Mep MP – وأخذت حصة في الأسهم كجزء من صفقة التجزئة حديثًا.

The US government acquired a 5 % stake in Canadian Lithium America and the last 5 % in a joint venture in Lithium American, to extract lithium in Nevada. The shares of stocks will be obtained through costs of cost, which are financial tools that give the government the right to purchase shares at a specific price. The new conditions came out of re -negotiation with the loan programs office at the Ministry of Energy From a loan of $ 2.26 billion This was granted to Lithium America under Biden.

Watch the full episode to hear more about the government’s relationship with startups and technology companies, as well as the entertainment industry reaction to the actress created from artificial intelligence, Tele Norwood, and a seed tour of periodic laboratories.

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