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The Palantir Mafia Behind Silicon Valley’s Hottest Startups  The Wall Street Journal Source link

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 …

A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era  The New York Times Silicon Valley’s Dream Tech Job Is Disappearing  The New York Times System Upgrade  The New York Times [Op-Ed] After the revolution comes vertigo.  Al Día News Why the Tech Industry’s Relaxed Work Culture Is Over  TipRanks Source link

Silicon Valley’s Dream Tech Job Is Disappearing  The New York Times A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era  The New York Times [Op-Ed] After the revolution comes vertigo.  Al Día News All Work and No Play: Does a Tech Sector Without Fun Have a Future?  Cynopsis Source link

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 …

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, …

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

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 …

Silicon Valley’s bet on Trump starts to pay off  The Washington Post Trump readies new hands-off AI ‘action plan’ that offers a split with Biden  Yahoo Finance President Trump Solidifies U.S. Position as Leader in AI  The White House (.gov) White House to unveil plan to push US AI abroad, crack down on restrictive rules, document shows  Reuters Trump to Outline AI Priorities in …

“Rethinking What Silicon Can Do” – New Way To Control Electricity at the Tiniest Scale Discovered  SciTechDaily Source link