A growing backlash against AI is evident in public sentiment, particularly on platforms like TikTok, where users express visceral hatred for the technology. The author argues that Silicon Valley under…
The United States and China are quietly aligning on the need to manage AI's most dangerous risks, despite their broader geopolitical tensions. This rare consensus could lead to a global compact addres…
Journalist Kara Swisher, known for her decades covering Silicon Valley, is leveraging her podcast platform to engage potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, including Gavin Newsom and Pete …
Hong Kong is investing billions of dollars in AI projects, including a semiconductor centre, an AI subsidy scheme, and a data centre, but critics argue the city needs a broader vision and more realist…
Researchers have used artificial intelligence and advanced imaging to decipher a carbonized scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, recovering all surviving text from a single scroll…
Om Malik, the influential technology journalist and investor who founded the blog Gigaom, died Wednesday at age 59 in Palo Alto, California, after a long heart condition. His blog shaped Silicon Valle…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a federal minimum tax on billionaires and a national fund to give Americans a stake in AI-generated wealth, arguing the tax should be addressed at the federal lev…
A designer argues that AI is a hype-driven pyramid scheme and advocates for human-centered design, emphasizing that billions of human alternatives exist and that bypassing human input erases people fr…
A developer known as Luhui Hu introduces the concept of 'Loopcraft,' a shift from prompt engineering to designing agent loop systems that automate task discovery, execution, verification, and retry. T…
A 64-square-foot studio apartment in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood is listed for $750 per month, highlighting the city's worsening housing crisis exacerbated by the AI boom. The unit lacks …
A growing ideology called 'successionism' argues that humanity should be replaced by AI, gaining influence in Silicon Valley despite being rejected by most. The philosophy, named by Andrew Critch, ref…
Venture capitalist Deedy Das says software engineers face an identity crisis bordering on depression as AI coding tools create a divide between 'lazy' engineers who rely on AI and 'craftsmen' who must…
Oxford mathematics professor John Lennox warns that AI could be used by authoritarian regimes to destroy the world, drawing parallels to totalitarian states he experienced during the Cold War. He crit…
California voters are divided over a November ballot measure to tax billionaires to fund healthcare, with supporters arguing the wealthy owe the communities that built their fortunes and opponents war…
A software engineer argues that Agile methodology has become a pointless corporate ritual, citing daily standups, retros, and planning sessions as time-wasting activities that fail to improve producti…
Rep. Ro Khanna, representing Silicon Valley, argues for taxing billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, citing Meta's $56.31 billion quarterly revenue and simultaneous layoffs of 8,000 workers to fund AI in…
A 46-year-old marketing executive argues that corporate America should revive the three-martini lunch as a strategic tool to build relationships and combat loneliness in the age of AI, where productiv…
A new wave of philanthropy from Silicon Valley, potentially adding $37 billion annually from Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation, is expected to fund global development. However, the author argues tha…
The chatbot interface is dying as users realize large language models suffer from context rot, lack memory and truth sense, and are fundamentally limited by their statistical nature, making the chat b…
At the Second Xizang International Communication Conference in Lhasa, American media professional Zachary Lundquist said China must adapt to Western algorithms to counter negative global narratives ab…