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Silicon Valley talent keeps getting recycled, so this CEO uses a ‘moneyball’ approach for uncovering hidden AI geniuses in the new era

Silicon Valley talent keeps getting recycled, so this CEO uses a ‘moneyball’ approach for uncovering hidden AI geniuses in the new era

As AI becomes more ubiquitous, the need for the top-tier talent at tech firms becomes even more important—and it’s starting a war among Big Tech, which is simultaneously churning through layoffs and poaching people from each other with eye-popping pay packages. Meta, for example, is dishing out $100 million signing bonuses to woo top OpenAI researchers. Others are scrambling to …

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The Real Reason Silicon Valley Hates Lina Khan

The Real Reason Silicon Valley Hates Lina Khan

You’d think venture capitalists and startups would support an antitrust crackdown on Big Tech. These behemoths regularly squash promising young startups, using their unrivaled power over users, data, and various digital markets. But when antitrust regulators gave enforcing regulation a real shot in recent years, the VC industry’s howls of displeasure became very loud. The apotheosis of this arrived last …

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Silicon Valley’s AI Spend Goes Berserk as Microsoft Starts Cashing In

Silicon Valley’s AI Spend Goes Berserk as Microsoft Starts Cashing In

Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon all reported quarterly earnings this week, and there was a common thread tying them together: a boom in AI spending and plans to increase it even more, beyond analyst expectations. Although capital expenditures above expectations often don’t tend to make investors particularly happy, it had pretty much the opposite effect this week, especially for Meta …

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Tech giant Palantir helps the US government monitor its citizens. Its CEO wants Silicon Valley to find its moral compass

Tech giant Palantir helps the US government monitor its citizens. Its CEO wants Silicon Valley to find its moral compass

Critics of those who misuse power tend to be outsiders. So, it’s striking that Alexander Karp, co-founder and CEO of data analytics giant Palantir Technologies, has written a book, with Palantir’s head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska, calling on Silicon Valley to find its moral compass. Together, they upbraid fellow big tech companies for “building [things] simply because they can, …

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Figma IPO Set to Be a Windfall for Silicon Valley’s Biggest Names – The Information

Figma IPO Set to Be a Windfall for Silicon Valley’s Biggest Names  The Information Figma targets $18.8 billion valuation in US IPO after bumping up price range  Yahoo Finance Figma aims at $16.4 billion valuation as tech IPOs bounce back  Reuters Figma IPO could value design software maker at $16 billion  CNBC Design Software Maker Figma Increases IPO Target to $1.2 Billion  Bloomberg Source link

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Trump’s new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

Trump’s new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U.S. policy as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the tech figures who backed his election campaign. Trump on Wednesday is planning to reveal an “AI Action Plan” he ordered after returning to the White House in January. He …

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