Donald Trump's second term is marked by a pattern of bad luck, dubbed the 'Trump Curse,' where his presence at major sporting events correlates with losses for the teams he supports. This trend, obser…
The AI industry is a sham propped up by manufactured consent and circular financing, and it should not be bailed out. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are losing money, with revenues driven by grif…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is aggressively hiring technical talent and optimizing its models for domestic Huawei chips, doubling its workforce amid US export restrictions. The company, valued at over…
Wealthy parents are enrolling their children in Alpha School, a private network charging $75,000 a year for AI-based tutoring, despite having access to top traditional education. The school, promoted …
A new analysis argues that universal basic income and single-payer healthcare are unworkable in America due to cultural individualism, aversion to taxes, and unfavorable demographics, contrasting with…
In mid-2021, while the tech world focused on the Metaverse and NFTs, a small group of developers and researchers in Silicon Valley had early access to GPT-3 and GitHub Copilot and realized the transfo…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized frontier AI labs for their business model, accusing them of overselling doom and imposing a wealth tax on enterprises, while pitching Palantir's platform as a solutio…
Stathera Inc. secured $55 million in Series A funding led by Maverick Silicon and MediaTek to develop vacuum-sealed silicon oscillators for AI chips. The technology aims to improve timing precision an…
A major tech company's AI assistant launch is stalled by EU data protection laws, with the outcome potentially setting a precedent for global AI governance. The standoff highlights tensions between in…
A developer created a Chrome extension and Python server that uses Google's Gemini Flash 2.0 AI to impersonate a user on Discord, mimicking the fictional 'Gilfoyle' project from the TV show Silicon Va…
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 …