@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/07/te…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzA Super Bowl in Silicon Valley Filled With Valley Billionaires https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/business/super-bowl-tickets-billionaires.html
@whitequark@mastodon.sociali think we learned the wrong lessons from left-pad. maybe it would create a better world if any npm user could pull a "stop cord" for the entire silicon valley corporate environment
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSilicon Valley Plots Against Ro Khanna After His Mockery Over a Wealth Tax (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/politics/ro-khanna-california-wealth-tax.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p90#a260107p90
@heiseonline@social.heise.deheise | Auswandern nach Polen: Was ITler verdienen, Lebenshaltungskosten und Steuern
Das "Silicon Valley Europas" lockt mit Jobs in der Techbranche und niedrigen Preisen. Wir erklären, ob die Rechnung für IT-Experten wirklich aufgeht.
@haayman@todon.nlOf guillotines
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
https://www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public-hangings/
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s Business Model Is to Break Europe
Washington wants a free hand for Silicon Valley and Russia investment.
The EU is an obstacle to him
—and the far right is his ally
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/trum-vanc…
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no
@seeingwithsound@mas.toAfter Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/after-neuralink-max-hodak-is-building-something-stranger/ (heading for the Borg, Silicon Valley people indeed often sound as confident as LLMs, but …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSingapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/925815f6-d1d7-46c4-862d-da39acc712a2
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"The popularity of Moltbot is sort of hard to explain if you’re not already tapped into a specific sect of Silicon Valley AI boosters."
https://www.404media.co/silicon-valleys-favorite-new-ai-agent-has-serious-security-flaws/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/bus…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social"People are trying BPC-157 and TB-500 for healing injuries by stimulating new blood vessel growth, oxytocin for improving eye contact (one OpenAI researcher called it “Ozempic for autism”), epitalon for sleep and retatrutide — a next-generation weight-loss drug still in clinical trials — for everything from appetite suppression to increased focus."
@marcel@waldvogel.family"There was no choice, there is no choice: either submit to capital or watch your ideas wither and die. There are no other practical ways to raise significant capital. Real Angels don’t exist"
On the Feudal-like structures in Silicon Valley. Written in 2018, but not much has changed.
https://<…
@UP8@mastodon.social🗜️ The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
https://paulallies.medium.com/the-silicon-valley-stack-doesnt-work-here-why-africa-will-lead-the-post-bloat-web-e7c34b577c61
@cdarwin@c.imEmails from a trove released by the Department of Justice on Friday,
show that as late as 2018,
Epstein was invited to or attended dinners alongside the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Google vice-president and later Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.
Most of the events were staged by the Edge network,
a creation of literary agent John Brockman,
which offered a …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley's AI Elite (Nafeez Ahmed/Byline Times)
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/how-epstein-channelled-race-science-and-climate-culling-into-silicon-valleys-ai-elite/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p131#a251205p131
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who was shunned in investor circles for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza before Replit's AI agent took off (Margaux MacColl/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/07/called-t…
@NicolasGriseyDemengel@piaille.fr"Let’s stop trying to copy the West. Let’s build the web that actually works."
The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
https://paulallies.medium.com/the-sili
@cdarwin@c.imDavid Sacks,
the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar,
has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends
and many of his own tech investments.
Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government,
influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor.
Among his actions as the White House’s artificial intelligen…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMissing Link: Strenge Gesetze und Reichensteuer – Zäsur für das Silicon Valley?
Der California Effect, ähnlich dem europäischen Brüssel-Effekt, sorgt immer wieder für Kritik. Das hat das Silicon Valley verändert, und wird es weiterhin tun.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"Everything I’ve feared would happen is happening.
America has fallen. NATO is teetering. Europe is on the brink of some new darkness. The Silicon Valley tech companies are now in an alliance with the worst people on the planet" -- @…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldFascinating illustration of the number of surveillance cameras we interact with.
https://apnews.com/photo-essay/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-tech-photo-essay-2da6d9ae5c29d973955e761fa42f7798
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCan You Optimize Love? -- A group of tech executives, app developers and Silicon Valley philosophers ... (Amanda Hess/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/style/love-symposium-artificial-intelligence-keeper.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.rwju.B96RQdE3dEn6&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p155#a260106p155
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialMany are surprised as the owners/managers of big high-tech companies have embraced and paid de facto bribes to trump.
I was part of the silicon valley (and Boston) era when those now-huge companies got started.
Having observed many of the people who controlled those then-new companies, I am not surprised that those companies are now institutions of political reaction and economic concentration.
Back then the Silicon valley was filled with cocaine and money-worshiping people…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/silicon-valley-building-free-chinese-ai-r…
@hippyjo@c.imSanta Clara County Denounces ICE in preparation for Super Bowl
https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-residents-rally-against-ice-ahead-of-super-bowl/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAt a cyber con two weeks ago, someone told me with a straight face that Elon and his Silicon Valley buddies want our cyber defenses to be weak for access to all the government data for their LLMs.
The U.S. has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacks
https://www.washingtonpost.com…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.comWhy don’t self driving cars work outside of Silicon Valley?
It’s all written in Rust.
@holger_moller@bildung.social"The fact that large language models (LLM) have scraped my website and continue to do so has had me feeling less motivated to share my thoughts. But maybe the best act of rebellion against AI slop is to keep writing and not let the silicon valley bastards grind me down."
@…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJensen Huang says he isn't concerned about a billionaires tax under consideration in California, and plans to remain in Silicon Valley (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/nvidia-ceo-says-he-s-perfectl…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialTop investments by a supposed 'climate leaders' investment fund (approx 27% of the total). All silicon valley villains busy building data centres. Talk about greenwash.
@cdarwin@c.imAt a time when the majority of Americans distrust big tech
and believe artificial intelligence will harm society,
Silicon Valley has built its own network of alternative media
where CEOs, founders and investors
are the unchallenged and beloved stars.
What was once the province of a few fawning podcasters
has grown into a fully fledged ecosystem of publications and shows
supported by some of the tech industry’s most powerful.
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukYet it comes with a big risk. That is, the incredible dependence of US stock market growth on the performance of a handful of tech giants. The Magnificent 7 - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla - collectively comprise one third of the valuation of America's entire S&P 500.
BBC News - The Silicon Valley 'AI factory' at the heart of the tech race - BBC News
@fgraver@hcommons.socialWhat technology takes from us – and how to take it back https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 book Cyberselfish, warning about Silicon Valley's love for "techno-libertarianism", finds a resurgence in interest (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialWillkommen USA (und allen anderen & Co. etc.) in der veralteten Realität, sprich in der 20ern Technokratie:
»Renaissance einer politischen Bewegung:
Wenn Krisen Demokratie und Markt erschüttern, feiern Technokratie-Visionen ihr Comeback. Zwischen TechBros, Elon Musk und Silicon-Valley-Utopien zeigt sich - Die Sehnsucht nach Expertenherrschaft ist so aktuell wie gefährlich.«
🔊
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSilicon Valley Favorite Jumps Into California Governor's Race (Eliyahu Kamisher/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/san-jose-mayor-a-silicon-valley-darling-announces-run-for-california-governor
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p45#a260129p45
@gfriend@mas.to“There is this herd effect where everyone in Silicon Valley has to work on the same thing,” he said… “It does not leave much room for other approaches that may be much more promising in the long term.”
(The difference, perhaps, between VCs and DARPA?)
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(LinkedIn) #Paradromics: "A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world."
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social" Il y a pas mal de similitudes, dans la vision du monde et de l’apport des technologies, entre la Chine et la Silicon Valley : des individus satisfaits dans leur bulle gérée par des algorithmes." (Thomas Gomart, directeur de l’Ifri)
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Rupert Murdoch's California Post, which will focus on LA, Silicon Valley, and Sacramento when it launches in 2026; Ian Mohr will lead CA Page Six (Lachlan Cartwright/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/rupert-murdoc…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social🏡 Silicon Valley ohne Tech-Milliardäre? Noch ist unklar, ob die 5 %-Reichensteuer kommt. Aber die Erwartung reicht schon: Larry Page, Peter Thiel & Co. verlegen Vermögenssitze in andere US-Bundesstaaten. 🇺🇸 #Capital | #Reichensteuer
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialRE: https://mstdn.social/@kevinrns/115776345217319180
I'm a big linux fan, but it's the other side of this equation which is compelling:
While Silicon Valley is trying to take control of the world, you (we, all of us) need to get off its proper…
@mrysav@social.linux.pizzaIt's crazy to me that the Silicon Valley types who get mad about IRL pronouns are also fervently trying to sell gendered AI agents
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/technology/writer-silicon-valley-criticism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U8.fsxY.9ndmBHqClmfa&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p38#a251127p38
@marcel@waldvogel.family @heiseonline@social.heise.deMontag: EU gegen Huawei und ZTE bei KRITIS, Pay-TV-Piraten ohne Vermögensschaden
Cybersicherheit ohne China BGH-Urteil gegen Sender-Vermögensschaden Ablauf von Plastik-Führerscheinen Silicon Valley verliert Milliardäre Sky mit IPTV
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotNeeded:
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeHappy Saturday morning! Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to in the daily crush of news.
This week's selection includes pieces that touch on
--Estonia served as the first target of Russian cyberattacks,
--Inside a sprawling scam compound in Myanmar,
--How to protest safely amid massive surveillance,
--Silicon Valley is now the tech handmaiden of US authoritarianism,…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of early checks to 22 unicorns like xAI (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineOooch, schluchz:
Ein Gesetzesentwurf zur Einführung einer fünfprozentigen #Vermögenssteuer bringt Kaliforniens #TechMilliardäre in Aufruhr.
Namen wie Larry Page, Sergey Brin und Peter
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at how David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's WH benefits his investments, those of Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/3…
@cdarwin@c.imSilicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds,
has given us the "Hero Developer":
a figure who ships features at midnight,
who “moves fast and breaks things,”
who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.
We celebrate this person constantly.
They're on the front page of TechCrunch et al.
They keynote conferences.
Their G…
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comTim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards — The Verge https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euI had never seen this episode 😲 Noo, Big Headdd 😔
Silicon Valley | Ten Years Later: The Extended Pied Piper Documentary | HBO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab1H602yc_Y
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaConsidering how often Windows updates break things and the silicon valley mantra 'break things and fix later' I wonder if that is a safe way of thinking tech. This pod goes through how Volvo unintentionally diaabled the cars breaks by an update.
https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/phys…
@poppastring@dotnet.social"Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards" …and the pattern is everywhere.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards
@MartinM@norden.socialFaschisten machen faschistische Sachen: Maximierung der #Ungleichheit, "gerechtfertigt" durch #Pseudowissenschaft. h…
@cdarwin@c.imHere in the Bay Area of San Francisco, some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting it out to gain some kind of an advantage.
And, in turn, they are competing with China
This race to seize control of a technology that could reshape the world
is being fuelled by bets in the trillions of dollars by the US’s most powerful capitalists.
The computer scientists hop off at Mountain View for Google DeepMind,
Palo Alto for the talent mill of Stanford University, <…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."
(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/features/825207/semiconduct…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social"Das schlechte Image der DSGVO ist ganz stark ein deutsches Phänomen, im Blick auf den Datenschutz ist Deutschland dem Silicon Valley näher als dem Rest der EU. Ich reise für Vorträge durch ganz Europa und dass man fast mit Tomaten beworfen wird, wenn man „Datenschutz“ sagt, das gibts nur in Deutschland," so Max Schrems #Datenschutz
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSilicon Valley's Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/technology/david-sacks-white-house-profits.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.F6sq.NxuCTjt2b8Y1&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p7#a251130p7
@cdarwin@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific tasks, like booking flights (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at outlets in Belgium and France that are prioritizing independence from Big Tech and opting for open source or in-house software (Owen Huchon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/editorial-independence-means-technologic…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-ruling-silicon-valley…
@cdarwin@c.imTech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, and how China and the US are building the future (Dan Wang)
https://danwang.co/2025-letter/
@marcel@waldvogel.family"But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections."
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS tech enabled China's surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-surveillance-technology-silicon-valley-eadac8211c5d0ca88374afecfbba00d5
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p35#a251220p35
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Kontigo, a crypto startup from YC S24 that raised $20M , helped move money in and out of Venezuela and now faces cutoffs from banks and payment networks (Ben Foldy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/how-a-s…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn interview with Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan on why he choose Apple TV for his show, the AI disclaimer in the credits, Tilly Norwood, and more (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/pluribus-explained-vince-gilligan-rhea-see…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toExclusive: OpenAI and Sam Altman back a bold new take on fusing humans and machines https://www.corememory.com/p/exclusive-openai-and-sam-altman-back-merge-labs-bci The Merge or the Übermensch in a Silicon Valley jacket.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/datab…
@cdarwin@c.imDid California lose Larry Page?
The Google and Alphabet cofounder, who left day-to-day operations in 2019,
has seen his net worth soar in the years since
—from around $50 billion at the time of his departure to somewhere approximating $260 billion today.
(Leaving his job clearly didn’t hurt his wallet.)
Last year, a proposed ballot initiative in California threatened billionaires like Page with a one-time 5 percent wealth tax
—prompting some of them to con…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSurveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-sur…
@cdarwin@c.imWaymo already operates in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin, and Phoenix.
But maps published by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles showed that the company can now test and deploy its autonomous vehicles across a much larger area in both the Bay Area and Southern California.
In the Bay Area, Waymo’s approved areas of operation now include most of the East Bay and North Bay (including Napa/Wine Country), as well as Sacramento.
In Southern Cal…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRipple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/poli
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nvidia tested Intel's 18A to make chips but stopped moving forward; interviews with 20 people describe how dealmaker Lip-Bu Tan gave Intel a lifeline (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-silicon-valley-dealma…
@cdarwin@c.imTech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns
Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies
are among hundreds of technology workers who called on their employers to lobby the White House
to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published with more than 200 signatures on Tuesday.
The letter, signed by people who work at companies including Google, Amazon and TikTok,
pointed to how tech chief…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Reid Hoffman on wanting Silicon Valley to speak out against the Trump administration, AI regulation, the role of AI in art and creativity, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-reid-hoffman/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRicursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/technology/recursive-ai-ricursive.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-struck-20-billion-megadeal-gro…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US DOJ opened a criminal probe and sent out grand-jury subpoenas in recent weeks over allegations that Deel recruited a spy inside rival Rippling (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFTC v. Meta: TikTok's rise undermined the FTC's antitrust case and helped Meta avoid a breakup; Judge Boasberg said the tech landscape has "changed markedly" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-google-antitrust-t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/technology/ai-research-chinese-talent.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-silicon-va
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-venture-capital-big-fun…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/15/big-tech-whist…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026 may be the year of the mega IPO, as sources say Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX took early steps to go public, setting up a watershed moment for the AI boom (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technology/ai-ipo-openai-anthropic-spacex.html…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia and Eli Lilly plan to invest $1B over five years in a new Silicon Valley-based AI drug laboratory, aiming to boost the pharmaceutical industry's AI use (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources and filings: Peter Thiel donated $3M to a group to beat California's wealth tax, the first of several expected major donations by tech leaders in 2026 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/peter-thiel-california-weal…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow US startups like Oakland-based Brimstone are racing to develop sources of raw materials that the US needs for tech, an industry China has long dominated (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
