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Silicon Valley startup admits its balloon may have struck United jet, forcing emergency landing  San Francisco Chronicle Object that hit United flight’s windshield may have been weather balloon, company says  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Mystery object that may have cracked United Airlines flight’s windshield, injured pilot ID’d  New York Post United Airlines Pilot Injured After High-Altitude Debris Cracks …

Silicon Valley leaders including White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks and OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon caused a stir online this week for their comments about groups promoting AI safety. In separate instances, they alleged that certain advocates of AI safety are not as virtuous as they appear, and are either acting in the interest of themselves …

Is This the End of the Silicon Era? Scientists Unveil World’s First 2D Computer  SciTechDaily A full-featured 2D flash chip enabled by system integration  Nature Chips Just 10 Atoms Thick Could Bring Computers With Extremely Compact Memory  SingularityHub Researchers achieve breakthrough integration of 2D materials on standard silicon chips  Tom’s Hardware This New Chip Is Just a Few Atoms Thick and Could Change Everything …

Top Silicon Valley Democrat breaks with Marc Benioff as rift deepens  Politico Venture Capitalist Ron Conway Resigns From Board Over Benioff National Guard Comments  The New York Times San Francisco leaders reject Benioff’s comment about National Guard  KTVU ‘Stay the hell out’: SF leaders blast Trump’s call to send in National Guard  SFGATE San Francisco opposes ‘authoritarian crackdown’ as Trump threatens to send troops  The …

October 15, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple unleashes M5, the next big leap in AI performance for Apple silicon M5 delivers over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4, featuring a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core, a more powerful CPU, a faster Neural Engine, and higher unified memory bandwidth CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced M5, …

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says America’s tech capital has a police problem, and he’s welcoming President Donald Trump’s pitch to send National Guard troops to yet another Democrat-led city. “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it,” Benioff told The New York Times on Friday.  Trump has already sent troops to Los Angeles, …

Lily JamaliTechnology correspondent, San Francisco Getty Images Silicon Valley is home to many major tech firms, including Apple’s circular headquarters At OpenAI’s DevDay this week, OpenAI boss Sam Altman did what American tech bosses rarely do these days: he actually answered questions from reporters. “I know it’s tempting to write the bubble story,” Mr Altman told me as he sat …

Of all the unlikely stories to emerge from the current AI frenzy, few are more striking than that of Leopold Aschenbrenner. The 23-year-old’s career didn’t exactly start auspiciously: He spent time at the philanthropy arm of Sam Bankman-Fried’s now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange before a controversial year at OpenAI, where he was ultimately fired. Then, just two months after being booted …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers learned all about technology’s volatile highs and lows as a veteran of the internet’s early boom days during the late 1990s and the ensuing meltdown that followed the mania. And now he is seeing potential signs of the cycle repeating with another transformative technology as a whirlwind of investments and …

John Altschuler, the co-showrunner of Silicon Valley and King of the Hill, wants Europe to show more respect to writers. The scribe, part of a writing duo with Dave Krinsky, called this facet of the European production system the “biggest difference” with the Hollywood studios’ approach. However, he did credit the European view that TV production is seen through cultural …