The Latest Breaking News from Silicon Valley

Palantir has a P/E near 500. Can Alex Karp justify the price?

Karp believes Big Tech needs to refocus on military and national-security work, once at the heart of Silicon Valley’s origins.

Fortune · Feb 25, 2025

‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?

Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we’re all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age?

The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2025

Crypto and big tech’s backing pays off as Trump makes tech-friendly moves

Flurry of directives relaxes regulations and drops lawsuit – and billionaires who donated to Trump are ready to benefit

The Guardian - US · Feb 22, 2025

Inside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States

They seemed like just another band of anarchist misfits scraping by on the fringes of Silicon Valley — until the deaths began. Io Dodds unravels the complex web of ideology, friendship, and bloody violence that has baffled investigators nationwide

The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2025

If the AI Roundheads go to war with tech royalty, don’t bet against them

Silicon Valley wants to spend a fortune on the fantasy of human-level intelligence. But there are more practical and valuable things to achieve

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2025

Silicon Valley’s Sleeping Giant? Intel’s Comeback in Focus

Investor enthusiasm is building around Intel as government support and partnership speculation hint at a resurgence for the chip giant.

MarketBeat · Feb 14, 2025

Why are Elon Musk and Sam Altman engaged in a war of words over OpenAI?

Two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent tech titans are at loggerheads over the future of the creator of ChatGPT.

Al Jazeera · Feb 14, 2025

Laid-off Meta employees blast Zuckerberg in forums for running the ‘cruelest tech company out there’

Meta layoffs mark a new and harsher era for the company and Silicon Valley at large.

Fortune · Feb 13, 2025

Workday Introduces Centralized Platform for AI Agent Management

Workday, an HR giant based out of Silicon Valley, has announced a new centralized platform that allows enterprises to manage all their AI agents. The

Geekflare · Feb 13, 2025

DeepSeek: how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake

We are in the early days of a seismic shift in the global AI industry. DeepSeek, a previously little-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, has produced a “game changing”“ large language model that promises to reshape the AI landscape almost overnight.

The Conversation · Feb 12, 2025