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Newsom’s call to sweep homeless encampments caught the eye of a Silicon Valley billionaire

But Vinod Khosla is dealing with his own housing woes, and has been for years.

Fortune

Tech Leaders Rally Behind Kamala Harris For Presidential Bid

Tech industry leaders in Silicon Valley rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential election.

Top News

Box CEO says to back Kamala Harris he’ll need see 'a 10-point plan for pro-business, pro-tech, pro-entrepreneurship'

During her time in California state politics Vice President Kamala Harris had to both court and regulate Big Tech.

Fortune

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Silicon Valley tech titans are taking sides in the presidential election. See who's supporting Donald Trump—and pulling for Kamala Harris

Elon Musk is backing Trump, but Reed Hastings is supporting Harris.

Fortune

'Olivia Pope Of Silicon Valley' Raises $1.5M For Kamala Harris, Adding To $81M Raised In A Day

A Zoom event with 44 K attendees raised $1.5M for Kamala Harris. Key figures spoke in support, and Biden's exit boosts Harris as the Democrats' top contender.

International Business Times UK

Silicon Valley-backed voter plan for a new California city won't be on the November ballot after all

A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area on land now zoned for agriculture won’t be on the Nov. 5 ballot after all

The Independent UK

War and rising nationalism is expected to spur a venture capital boom in a one-time Silicon Valley 'taboo' sector: defense tech

Software startups won’t be as good of an investment in the coming decades, according to several investors

Fortune

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Meet the billionaire behind JD Vance

Peter Thiel has been supporting Trump's newly selected running mate since before he entered politics

Salon

Kamala Harris said Big Tech was her 'family'—but she wants more regulation of AI, antitrust, and privacy

The vice president and likely Democratic presidential candidate has a long history with Silicon Valley.

Fortune

Inside Iconiq Growth, one of Silicon Valley’s most mysterious venture capital funds that just closed a $5.8B startup war chest

Historically press shy, Iconiq Growth is sharing details about its VC fund for the first time.

Fortune

The politics of Silicon Valley: Who are the tech barons backing Trump and Vance?

As the US presidential election campaign is roiled by Joe Biden's decision to pull out of the race against Donald Trump, we look at the role Silicon Valley has been playing in the contest so far. Long a bastion of liberal values, the US tech scene is seeing an increase…

France 24

Can Kamala Harris win Silicon Valley?

Box CEO Aaron Levie hopes the Democratic Party can put forward a "very clear tech policy."

Fortune

Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, a longtime backer of the new vice-president pick, are among those pledging support

The Guardian - UK

How JD Vance’s path to being Trump’s VP pick wound through Silicon Valley

Yale Law School graduate found allies in tech billionaires including Peter Thiel who rallied privately for him

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The Independent UK

Stephen Colbert wades into ‘biggest danger of making’ JD Vance Trump’s VP pick

Late night host insinuated that Trump picked running mate for his connections to Silicon Valley funding

Fortune

Kara Swisher says Silicon Valley’s growing concentration of power in Washington, D.C., is ‘really problematic’

“This sort of explicit grab for power has worked really nicely,” she said.

The Independent UK

JD Vance’s Silicon Valley connections run deep. So do Trump’s

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are key figures in a rising network of pro-Trump techies who are channelling tens of millions of dollars towards Republican campaigns. And Thiel is the one who reportedly introduced Vance to Trump in the first place. Io Dodds reports on the GOP’s increasingly cosy relationship…

The Canberra Times

APS 'dependence' on foreign AI crowding out Canberra firms

Default opinion is good tech 'must come from Silicon Valley.'

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The Guardian - UK

Co-founders of Silicon Valley venture capital firm back Trump’s presidential bid

Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, founders of A16Z, plan to give large donations to former president’s campaign

Fortune

As VCs pledge support for Trump, Fearless Fund's Arian Simone keeps fighting for diversity

VCs are at odds when it comes to DEI.

International Business Times

Musk Leads Silicon Valley Rally Behind Trump

Elon Musk's decision to throw his vast fortune behind Donald Trump's presidential candidacy confirms the rise of a growing right-wing bloc in the traditionally liberal Silicon Valley.

Fortune

A trip to Shanghai’s AI mega-conference showed me that China’s developers are still playing catch-up to Silicon Valley

Constraints on China and its developers will likely create two parallel AI ecosystems: one inside of China, and one outside of it.

Fortune

AI is effectively ‘useless'—and it's created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns

"Fake it till you make it may work in Silicon Valley, but for the rest of us, I think once bitten twice shy may be more appropriate for AI," MacroStrategy Parternship's Ferguson told Bloomberg.

The Independent UK

The secret futuristic city being built by tech billionaires in California

California Forever has bold plans, hundreds of millions in capital invested, and some of the biggest names in tech backing its vision of a brand new city outside of San Francisco – but can it convince skeptical voters to see the light? Josh Marcus reports

International Business Times

Changing The Gatekeepers in Switzerland: Democratizing Access to Silicon Valley and Giving New Meaning to Impact Investing

Although Walter started investing with Green Sands in 2019 personally, it was not until 2021 that Walter, along with a team that included veterans in the financial industry, established Green Sands Switzerland GmbH.

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