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Backrooms: A stealth Silicon Valley tale

Maybe this liminal space horror is telling a story about what happens when we get sucked into our screens

Salon

Sriram Krishnan, Trump's AI brain, to exit White House

TOI Correspondent from Washington: Sriram Krishnan, the Indian-born technology investor who helped shape the Trump administration's artificial intelligence strategy and became one of the most influential Silicon Valley voices inside the White House, announced Saturday that he will leave his post at the end of the month.

The Times of India

Silicon Valley’s South Park Commons ramps up India deeptech push

South Park Commons is increasing its focus on India's deeptech sector, shifting investments beyond traditional software to areas like semiconductors and robotics. The firm, which backs founders at the earliest stages, sees growing global investor appetite for hardtech due to policy support and maturing startups. SPC aims for at least…

The Economic Times

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The Guardian view on NHS records: patients are not raw material for big tech

Editorial: Ministers should end Palantir’s contract before medical confidentiality is sacrificed to Silicon Valley’s appetite for public data

The Guardian - UK

Tech industry wins big in California after millions spent on primary election

Silicon Valley is fighting against AI regulation and taxation and will benefit from having political leverage

The Guardian - US

This CEO has had 6 major jobs in Silicon Valley: How Dennis Woodside built a career on saying yes to hard problems

Dennis Woodside sold Motorola to Lenovo—and accidentally sold himself out of a job. Now he runs a $2.65 billion software company.

Fortune

Anthropic surges as OpenAI struggles to keep up

Stock market filing illustrates AI company’s meteoric rise, while California’s tech billionaires pour cash into elections

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First Indian-American woman to take a company public in US says returning to India was not an option at her time

Vinita Gupta, who is called the first woman of Indian origin to have taken her company public in the US, said India is now different than her time. At her time, returning to India was not an option, but now good engineers have plenty of opportunities in India. Speaking to…

The Times of India

Tech billionaires are spending unprecedented sums in California races. Experts say it’s the tip of the iceberg

From Google co-founder Brin spending $82m to fight a billionaire tax to Google and Meta funding a joint Super Pac, Silicon Valley is engaged in an existential fight for its political power at home

The Guardian - US

All We Know About Peter Thiel's Move to Argentina: Is He Escaping the USA or Finding a New Land to Conquer for Palantir?

Peter Thiel has spent decades selling the future. Now he appears to be buying an exit ramp, and it comes with a Buenos Aires mansion, a presidential friendship, and enough geopolitical intrigue to make Silicon Valley look almost boring.

Latin Times

How to save the internet—according to Sam Altman’s all-seeing Orb

Europe’s largest corporations are facing an authenticity crisis, and Silicon Valley thinks biometric identity infrastructure may become part of the solution

Fortune

'AI is a Perfect Excuse': MIT Expert Exposes How Tech Firms Use AI Washing to Mask Massive Layoffs

An MIT economist reveals how Silicon Valley firms are using AI as a cover for mass layoffs, reshaping the workforce narrative to protect stock prices and justify redundancies.

International Business Times UK

Are ‘mind children’ the future of reproduction?

Forget dirty nappies. In Silicon Valley, there’s increasing chatter about virtual offspring

The Guardian - UK

Why I’m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI

The intelligent and thoughtful encyclical is an important warning of the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Silicon Valley is wrong to dismiss it

The Guardian - US

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Sweeping Silicon Valley layoffs are proof that tech CEOs are suffering from 'AI psychosis,' Box CEO says

Box CEO Aaron Levie said tech executives only see AI's "happy path." But employees working with the tech see a fuller picture.

International Business Times

SpaceX-Tesla Merger Talk Intensifies Ahead of Rocket Company's Nasdaq Debut

Elon Musk is about to take SpaceX public, and the move is reigniting speculation across Silicon Valley and Wall Street that his long-term goal may be to combine the company and Tesla into a single corporate empire.

The National (Scotland)

Can it really be Scotland's energy if it's used to power Silicon Valley's AI models?

The Scottish Parliament will head to the chamber on Thursday to debate Scotland's energy future, but concerns have been raised over how truly…

International Business Times

Selling a Company: How to Prepare and Avoid Common Pitfalls With Storm Duncan of Ignatious

A veteran of Silicon Valley's defining transactions, Duncan helped guide Google's acquisitions of DoubleClick and YouTube, MySQL's sale to Sun Microsystems, and later, Uber's $3.5 billion purchase of Careem, each a case study in how discipline can outlast hype.

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AI 'God' Panic Erupts as OpenAI Insider Claims Tech Elites Are Racing to Build Superhuman Power

An OpenAI insider reveals Silicon Valley's AI race is shifting from innovation to a high-stakes power struggle, raising concerns about global control and societal impact.

The Times of India

'Took me 8 years to get a Green Card': Indian-origin investor's immigration journey draws flak

An Indian-origin investor shared his Green Card journey but got slammed on social media as he was taking sides of those who wait decades for permanent residency in the US, yet do not get it. The post from Arnav Sahu, a Silicon Valley investor, came in the context of the…

Radio France Internationale

Pope Leo takes on Silicon Valley in landmark open letter on AI

Pope Leo has urged governments to slow down the development of artificial intelligence in his first major document on the technology. He warned that AI systems spread misinformation, prioritise conflict and risk leading the world down a path of unending war.

Fortune

I’m leading a $100 million corporate turnaround. Here’s why I learned to distrust the growth mindset

Here's why Silicon Valley's growth-first playbook is destroying an industry—and what it took to reverse $41 million in losses.

Fortune

Inside the 'stealth wealth' playbook: How Silicon Valley's elite buy multimillion-dollar mansions without leaving a paper trail

The ultrawealthy now treat visibility as a liability and they're paying to disappear from luxury real estate records.

The Economic Times

Who killed US President Donald Trump's AI order? Musk says it wasn't him

President Donald Trump's executive order on powerful AI models has collapsed. Allies in Silicon Valley reportedly convinced the president to pull the plug. The order aimed to implement new AI cybersecurity measures. This development highlights Washington's struggle to agree on AI guardrails. The United States lags behind Europe and Asia…

Fortune

The big questions OpenAI’s trillion-dollar IPO filing may finally answer

A public listing would be one of Silicon Valley’s biggest wealth events, but OpenAI’s filing may also expose the financial and existential risks at the heart of the AI boom.

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