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TLDR 2023-02-02

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01GENERAL

02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

FACTORY

Freeform Future Corp., a five-year-old startup based in Los Angeles, wants to turn entire buildings into automated 3D-printing factories. It has developed a technique that uses dozens of lasers to create rocket engine chambers or car parts from metal powder. The company estimates that this method could make metal parts 25 to 50 times faster than current methods at a fraction of the cost. It has raised $45 million so far from investors including Founders Fund, Threshold Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

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04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

05MISCELLANEOUS

LAYOFFS BROKE BIG TECH’S ELITE COLLEGE HIRING PIPELINE

Most tech interns were not worried by the rumors of hiring freezes in the summer of 2022. They were wrong and hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost over the following months. Unlike other years, many interns were not guaranteed return offers of full-time jobs prior to going back to school. Soon-to-be graduates who assumed that they would obtain employment have had to reconsider the value of these companies, their own prospects, and what they want from their careers.

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