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Sam Altman says Trump has ushered in a 'vibe shift' in Silicon Valley

Sam Altman, along with several other major tech leaders, has embraced the new administration and its tech-friendly policies.

Fortune

In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted

Democracy’s traditional defence against fascism doesn’t work against the new far-right hybrid coded in Silicon Valley, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

AI might already be warping our brains, leaving our judgment and critical thinking 'atrophied and unprepared,' warns new study

Silicon Valley and the Trump administration are embracing AI, but the technology has troubling implications for critical thinking, according to a new Microsoft study.

Fortune

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OpenAI CEO touts Trump's hands-on approach with $500B Stargate project as a "welcome breath of fresh air" — Altman predicts a "vibe shift" in Silicon Valley

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently touted President Trump's approach to tech and AI as opposed to Biden's "hostile" takes.

Windows Central

Zuckerberg’s swerve: how diversity went from being a Meta priority to getting cancelled

Meta once invested millions and attracted top talent as tech’s leader in corporate diversity. After those aspirations peaked in 2019, the company scuttled them altogether

The Guardian - US

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says the original RPG attracted an audience "sort of like Euro Truck Simulator," with "quite a lot of people who never play games"

SCS Software still has the "nicest offices" in the Czech Republic: "They've built up their own Silicon Valley kind of thing"

GamesRadar

US Marine Vet Acquitted In NY Subway Death Joins Tech Firm

A US Marine veteran who was acquitted in the chokehold death of a homeless man on the New York subway -- a high-profile case highlighting the divisive issue of race in America -- has been hired by a major Silicon Valley firm allied with Donald Trump.

International Business Times

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Daniel Penny is hired by top Silicon Valley investment firm months after being acquitted in Subway chokehold case

‘I believe, as I know many of you do, that Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation. He was acquitted of all charges’, read a memo from the firms’ general partner

The Independent UK

Bill Gates says Elon Musk has been ‘mean’ to him — but he still wants to work together

Microsoft co-founder tells The Independent he’s ‘surprised’ by prominent Silicon Valley figures backing President Trump

The Independent UK

DeepSeek has ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear it

While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technology

The Guardian - UK

Croydon ‘could become the UK’s answer to Silicon Valley’, data shows

Research by GoDaddy suggests town is leaving the rest of London in its wake

Evening Standard

Silicon Valley billionaires splurge £144m on London Spirit in Hundred auction

A consortium comprising chief executives of Microsoft and Google won the right to buy a 49% share in the Lord’s-based franchise

The Guardian - UK

Bill Gates says he's surprised about his fellow billionaires' rightward political shift: 'I always thought of Silicon Valley as being left of center'

Tech billionaires including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have recently thrown their support behind President Trump.

Fortune

Voices: DeepSeek has blown the AI competition wide open – and that’s great news for the UK

COMMENT: Coinciding its launch with Donald Trump’s inauguration was a stroke of genius on China’s part, writes Emily Sheffield – even more so given that most of Silicon Valley was sitting front row

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DeepSeek’s overnight success is powered by Gen Z new hires

Liang Wenfeng hires young people and bookworms for his engineering team. He says: "Experience is not that important."

International Business Times

With China's DeepSeek, US Tech Fears Red Threat

The emergence of the DeepSeek chatbot has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy, with calls to go faster on advancing artificial intelligence and beat communist-led China before it is too late.

Fortune

DeepSeek is great news for Microsoft and software stocks

DeepSeek’s success initially rattled investors’ assumptions about the AI spending wave that has swept through Silicon Valley in recent years.

The Guardian - US

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

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The Guardian - UK

Reeves plans to create ‘Silicon Valley’ between Oxford and Cambridge

Chancellor to announce plans to improve infrastructure in region to put it at forefront of science and tech advances

Fortune

DeepSeek selloff: Should you buy the dip in Nvidia, tech?

The success of a mysterious Chinese lab has investors questioning the AI spending boom that has swept through Silicon Valley.

Evening Standard

Is DeepSeek really AI's 'Sputnik moment'? The hazy backstory to ChatGPT's Chinese rival

A Chinese AI company has shaken up Wall Street and Silicon Valley, but is it really the disruptor people think?

International Business Times UK

Top 500 Richest Lose £86.7B After DeepSeek AI Chatbot Launch Triggers AI Market Selloff

The S&P500 and the Nasdaq Composite declined as investors questioned America's AI dominance after DeepSeek launched its free AI chatbot.

Fortune

'Is DeepSeek a DeepFake or real?’: Silicon Valley freaks out

Also: Meta forms DeepSeek war rooms, Ryanair CEO hopes Trump scares Europe.

The Independent UK

What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI app shaking up the tech market?

The new chatbot app, reportedly developed at a fraction of the cost of its rivals, has stunned Silicon Valley.

International Business Times

Breakout Chinese AI 'Programmed' To Toe The Party Line

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek has made waves in Silicon Valley, stunning investors and industry insiders with its ability to match the skills of its Western competitors at a fraction of the cost.

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