Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Silicon Valley

Hidden OpenAI secrets and billion-dollar AI stakes: Is Sam Altman’s Musk courtroom battle Big Tech’s biggest warning yet as the CEO takes the witness stand today?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is expected to take the witness stand today, Tuesday, May 12, in the high-profile legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI. The trial, now in its third week in California federal court, centers on Musk’s claim that OpenAI abandoned its original nonprofit mission after he helped…

The Economic Times

From Palo Alto Intern to ₹100 Crore Startup Founder: Aman Goel’s Inspiring Journey

Success stories often begin with a single decision, and for Aman Goel, that decision was returning home to India instead of settling into a dream career in Silicon Valley. The co-founder and CEO of GreyLabsAI recently shared his decade-long entrepreneurial journey on X (formerly Twitter), inspiring thousands online with his…

Whats Hot

Silicon Valley’s ‘player‑coach’ fantasy misses the point of good managers

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

Fortune

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Europe’s AI translation industry told it risks reputation by partnering with US firms

Partnership between top startup DeepL and Amazon comes amid concern about Silicon Valley’s monopoly over digital infrastructure

The Guardian - UK

The Decoder: How Mei Gechlik Became the Authority Governments and Corporations Call on for China Intelligence

From Stanford Law School to a Silicon Valley think tank, the founder of sinotalks.com has spent three decades turning China's legal and policy landscape into strategic advantage for decision-makers worldwide.

International Business Times

The Met Gala raised a record $42 million as Silicon Valley picked up the tab—and as celebs protested Jeff Bezos' sponsoring of the event

The Met Gala raised a record $42 million this year, powered by Silicon Valley sponsors. Other usual regulars decided to skip because of their presence.

Fortune

Google Brushes Off Staff Revolt Over 'Proudly' Signing Trump Pentagon AI Deal

Google's AI partnership with the Pentagon has sparked dissent, with employees fearing misuse in military operations amid ethical concerns over AI's role in defense.

International Business Times UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Google brushes off employee complaints and says it is ‘proud’ to work with Trump’s Pentagon, report says

Hundreds of Google employees sent an open letter to the company’s leadership about the Pentagon deal, warning of military AI’s potential for ‘unethical and dangerous uses’

The Independent UK

The California tax proposal that has billionaires gaming for ‘economic 9/11’ in secret group chats

The proposed tax has divided Democrats, prompted a primary challenge against a star congressman, and previews the complicated dynamics around Big Tech heading into the 2028 election, Josh Marcus reports

The Independent UK

Meet Apurva Shrivastava: Indian-origin engineer who turned a ‘missed call’ idea into $1 billion AI startup

In the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley, where billions are poured into chatbots and generative art, Apurva Shrivastava and Tyson Chen decided to look where few tech founders go: the local HVAC company. That decision has officially paid off. Their startup, 'Avoca', has reached a $1 billion valuation following a…

The Times of India

A ballroom bunker is a perfect symbol for Trump 2.0

The edifice suggests a Silicon Valley-style desire to protect the president from national crises of his own making

The Guardian - US

Tech has a ton of layoffs and AI disruption and the rest of corporate America doesn't. One Silicon Valley CEO knows why

Goodhart's Law is running amok, both in the companies where tons of supposed AI layoffs are having, and where it isn't, Box's Aaron Levie said.

Fortune

Google reportedly signs classified AI deal with US Pentagon

Tech company is latest Silicon Valley firm to sign agreement with US military despite widespread employee opposition

The Guardian - US

California billionaire tax proposal garners enough signatures to head to ballot

Proposal for a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in the state is opposed by Silicon Valley tech titans and Gavin Newsom

The Guardian - US

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

How a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup

Avoca, founded by two MIT grads, brings Silicon Valley tech to trades like plumbing, roofing, and HVAC.

Reason

Hobohemian Rhapsody

Author Brian Barth explores the makeshift tent cities of Silicon Valley.

Fortune

‘Godmother of Silicon Valley' Esther Wojcicki, mother of the YouTube and 23andMe CEOs, shares her secret to raising future leaders

Wojcicki takes inspiration from her daughters’ public failures and how they pivoted to turn mistakes into successful companies.

Fortune

Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just inked a $60 billion deal with SpaceX

From Google intern at 18 to a billionaire at 25, Cursor CEO Michael Truell’s rise is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Fortune

The Godmother of Silicon Valley and her former student want to fix how healthcare gets built

Fail fast, revise, repeat: Esther Wojcicki brings her classroom philosophy to healthcare investing with the launch of Treehub.

Fortune

Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful’ and ‘middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.

The manifesto was based on a book coauthored by CEO Alex Karp.

Fortune

‘They’re sweating’: Why Japanese giants are pouring money into Silicon Valley startups

Pegasus Tech Ventures is quadrupling the corporate venture fund it manages for Japanet, the Japanese television shopping group.

Axios

Silicon Valley is building its own news-industrial complex

"Monitoring the Situation" has become one of the most viral and lucrative memes in tech.

Reason

This Big Tech Firm Wants To Reinstate the Draft

A look at Palantir’s bootlicking new manifesto.

The Times of India

'Should be universal duty’: Palantir backs mandatory US military draft in wartime, lists 22 reasons

A debate over a possible US military draft started after tech giant Palantir Technologies publicly backed the idea of universal national service. It argued that all citizens should share the burden of war. The company shared 22 extensive points explaining why software companies are equally responsible for defence.

Fortune

A16z’s Ben Horowitz sees ‘AI anxiety’ consuming Silicon Valley founders. Workers’ fear of something else is killing adoption

The a16z cofounder said the “laws of physics” have changed for founders—and “AI anxiety” is real. Workers are experiencing something much darker.

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations