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 · Apr 27
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. Fortune · Apr 27
Hobohemian Rhapsody Author Brian Barth explores the makeshift tent cities of Silicon Valley. Reason · Apr 25
‘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 · Apr 23
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. Fortune · Apr 22
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 · Apr 22
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 · Apr 22
‘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. Fortune · Apr 21
Silicon Valley is building its own news-industrial complex "Monitoring the Situation" has become one of the most viral and lucrative memes in tech. Axios · Apr 21
This Big Tech Firm Wants To Reinstate the Draft A look at Palantir’s bootlicking new manifesto. Reason · Apr 20
'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. The Times of India · Apr 20
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. Fortune · Apr 15
How to watch 'The Audacity' — stream darkly comic Silicon Valley drama online from anywhere Eight episode Silicon Valley drama and surefire smash hit. Read our guide on how to watch "The Audacity" online from anywhere Tom’s Guide · Apr 12
How Keith Furuya Blends Silicon Valley Experience with a Purpose-Driven Approach to Wealth Planning Keith Furuya, a seasoned wealth advisor, has made it his mission to help individuals and families align their financial decisions with the lives they want to build over time. International Business Times · Apr 8
International Business Times UK · Apr 8 Oracle Cuts 700 More Jobs in California Despite Posting $17.2 Billion Revenue Oracle's massive layoffs hit 710 employees in California's Silicon Valley, despite record revenues. Discover the impact on the tech industry and the questions it raises about corporate restructuring.
Fortune · Apr 6 Pearson CEO: the AI job apocalypse is a Silicon Valley story. The data tells a different one The loudest warnings about AI killing white-collar work are coming from the one industry feeling the disruption. That's no coincidence or reason to panic.
Fortune · Apr 3 I helped build Uber and Discord and now my tools help fuel billion-dollar unicorns. But Silicon Valley is losing the AI race to itself The era of walled-garden AI is collapsing and the startups building agent infrastructure that works across every platform will inherit it.
The Independent UK · Apr 1 Apple's 50-year odyssey has redefined technology, pop culture and comeback stories A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then — no joke — pulled it off
The Guardian - US · Mar 31 Silicon Valley city to give residents doorbells equipped with cameras Milpitas approves measure to distribute smart doorbells and says residents can upload footage to police database
Axios · Mar 30 Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda It keeps a powerful Silicon Valley voice without the constraints that come with serving inside government.
Tom’s Hardware · Mar 29 12-Nozzle 3D printer unveiled — MOVA AtomForm Unveils Palette 300 MOVA AtomForm officially unveiled its fledgling 3D printer at a Silicon Valley media event that felt more like a crash course on 3D printing for lifestyle content creators than a deep dive into the machine’s capabilities for those of us familiar with 3D printing.
Fortune · Mar 29 She left a Silicon Valley VC to solve a problem left untouched for 88 years. Now her bra brand is the fastest-growing at Nordstrom The underwire bra was patented in 1931. For 88 years, no one filed a patent to replace it. Then a Stanford-trained VC quit her job and did it herself.
Fortune · Mar 29 This high school dropout now makes six figures at OpenAI—and he shares the strategy Gen Z can use to get hired in Silicon Valley, too Gabriel Petersson landed a job at OpenAI—without a college degree—or even a high school diploma. His secret: showing he was up for the job.
Barchart · Mar 27 Andy Jassy and Jack Dorsey Blamed AI for Massive Layoffs, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Warns ‘AI Washing’ Is Real. What’s Really Going on with Huge Job Cuts? More and more Silicon Valley CEOs are blaming job losses on AI. But according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, these big layoffs have less to do with technology and more to do with traditional business fundamentals.
The Times of India · Mar 26 Silicon Valley's Ethan Agarwal urges Trump to lift ban on Iranian students, gets called out as 'moron' Silicon Valley entrepreneur Ethan Agarwal, who is running for Congress in California-17 as a challenger to Ro Khanna in Dem primary, urged President Donald Trump to reconsider his immigration ban on Iran as that would force thousands of Iranian students who will be graduating in May this year out of…