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Ambient Photonics quietly shuts down amid funding shortfalls and increased costs driven by tariffs 

Just a couple of years after opening a 43,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in a tucked-away business complex in Scotts Valley, solar cell technology company Ambient Photonics has closed its doors.

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Jessica M. Pasko has been writing professionally for almost two decades. She cut her teeth in journalism as a reporter for the Associated Press in her native Albany, New York, where she covered everything...