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 …
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Report claims Heritage Valley Sewickley, St. Clair hospitals perform needless back surgeries
Two Pittsburgh-area hospitals and one near State College are being called out by a health care think tank for performing what it calls unnecessary back surgeries. A report released earlier this month by the Massachusetts-based Lown Institute says around 38% of spinal fusions performed at Heritage Valley Sewickley weren’t warranted, the fourth-highest rate of any hospital in the nation. Mount …
Read More »Catch up on the Disney Dreamlight Valley 2025 Showcase Stream!
Howdy Valley Villagers! Today, we had the pleasure of previewing our upcoming free update, as well as offer a sneak peek at the wonders you might expect from the game in 2026! We also had opportunity to reveal more about our next expansion that lies just yonder – Disney Dreamlight Valley: Wishblossom Ranch arriving on November 19th, 2025. If you missed …
Read More »Silicon Valley tech boss Marc Benioff says he’s all for Trump sending troops to San Francisco since ‘we don’t have enough cops’
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, …
Read More »A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley
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 …
Read More »Will California’s rural Central Valley vote on Proposition 50?
By Maya C. Miller, CalMatters Fairgoers walks around the Kern County Fair in Bakersfield on Sept. 26, 2025. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Along the highways of California’s San Joaquin Valley, as field workers harvest almonds and pistachios and tractors churn dusty top soil into the already …
Read More »How former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner turned a viral AI prophecy into profit, with a $1.5 billion hedge fund and outsize influence from Silicon Valley to D.C.
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 …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Mirage Valley of Memory Launches for Free on November 18
Assassin’s Creed Mirage is celebrating its second anniversary with the announcement of Valley of Memory, a free story expansion for Assassin’s Creed Mirage launching November 18. What is Assassin’s Creed Mirage Valley of Memory? Valley of Memory is a free major update for anyone who owns Assassin’s Creed Mirage, offering up to six hours of additional gameplay and story. Taking …
Read More »Simi Valley resident gets over 8 years in prison for attempt to kill Justice Kavanaugh
GREENBELT, Md. — A California resident who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison by a federal judge, who imposed a punishment that is significantly more lenient than the Justice Department’s recommendation. Sophie Roske, a transgender woman from Simi Valley charged under her legal name, Nicholas …
Read More »Silicon Valley leader who navigated the internet’s boom and bust sees another wild ride with AI
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 …
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