upstart
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Data-center developers have raised billions more in the high-yield bond market, while upstart AI cloud companies are borrowing from banks and private-credit firms to fund purchases of chips.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The trend spans from Ford Motor, which announced a new battery storage division in May, to Fluence Energy, an upstart battery-maker collaborating with Nvidia.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
The company, founded in 2021 by a breakaway faction from OpenAI, was viewed as an upstart that tailored its chatbots to the needs of businesses and developers, rather than consumers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
But a rival motoring group, the upstart American Automobile Association, feared that a race on open roads would tarnish the industry’s already-poor record on safety, and lobbied against it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
In medical school I have been befriended by an upstart neurologist, who believes I am acting out a great lifelong falsehood.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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