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Railway secures 0 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Published by skeptic

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures, Redpoint, and Unusual Ventures. The investment values Railway as one of the most significant infrastructure startups to emerge during the AI boom, capitalizing on developer frustration with the complexity and cost of traditional platforms like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. “As AI models get better at writing code, more and more people are asking the age-old question: where, and how, do I run my applications?” said Jake Cooper, Railway’s 28-year-old founder and chief executive, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. “The last generation of cloud primitives were slow and outdated, and now with AI moving everything faster, teams simply can’t keep up.” The funding is a dramatic acceleration for a company that has charted an unconventional path through …

Heritage railway volunteers show how deep friendships can be formed without discussing emotions

Heritage railway volunteers show how deep friendships can be formed without discussing emotions

Published by Sam Flores

“Let’s face it, we’re just not that into emotions,” Brian tells me with a smile talking with other volunteers at a heritage steam railway in northern England. They are discussing a popular TV restoration show. Allan grimaces, parodying the presenter: “He’s always jumping around, shoving the microphone in their faces, like, ‘How do you feel?’ ‘Does this make you sad?’ You can almost see his glee when people actually cry!” This parody of emotional disclosure captures something important about the values of a group of men I’ve spent years working alongside. In public discourse and mental health campaigns, emotional expression is often viewed as essential to mental health. This weighs particularly heavily on discussions of older men. Research routinely links male emotional “repression” to “traditional” and even “toxic” forms of masculinity, connecting an inability to talk about feelings to social isolation and self-alienation. My research suggests that this narrative misses something crucial about how connection actually works. To research this subject, I spent over four years working closely with volunteers at a heritage railway, observing …

The House | Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander: “It’s Urgent That We Give People Confidence In The Railway Again”

The House | Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander: “It’s Urgent That We Give People Confidence In The Railway Again”

Published by Sam Flores

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander (Photography by Tom Pilston) 11 min read16 December Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander tells Noah Vickers about nationalising Britain’s railways, expanding Heathrow Airport and what kind of car she drives Heidi Alexander feels your misery. “Passengers are at the mercy of an overly complex and inefficient railway, which results in people being stood on platforms on a Sunday afternoon and trains not turning up.” The Transport Secretary isn’t done, adding that the current system “results in people paying a lot of money for rail travel but feeling that they are not getting a service which is worthy of the price they are paying”. Clearly the government feels it is new enough, and Alexander herself sufficiently fresh to the role, to side with the huddled masses staring in vain at station departure boards for any sign, any sign at all, of the delayed 17.32 to Crewe. (Other delayed trains are also not available.) But Labour knows it has only so long to turn around the passenger experience, and is …