Donald Trump and Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Elegy
Andreessen talks about the proposal as if it were Putin himself invading Atherton, California, the elite zip code where he resided until recently. If this tax is imposed, he says, …
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Trump And Silicon Valley Billionaires Cozy Up At RNC
When he first ran for president in 2016, Donald Trump infamously enjoyed the support of PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. But for the most part, Silicon Valley avoided Trump and funded …
OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges
Neither database mandates nor generally contains up-to-date versions of the records that UBI Charitable and OpenResearch had said they provided in the past. The original YC Research conflict-of-interest policy that …
AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think
Aaron Damigos’ inbox was hit with a dreaded, ubiquitous business-update calendar invite on June 3. The meeting included someone from HR, his manager, and upper management—and ultimately resulted in the …
Don’t Let Mistrust of Tech Companies Blind You to the Power of AI
Meanwhile, in less visible ways, AI is already changing education, commerce, and the workplace. One friend recently told me about a big IT firm he works with. The company had …
Marc Andreessen Once Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for Kids
In his polarizing “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen listed a number of enemies to technological progress. Among them were “tech ethics” and “trust and safety,” a term …
Argentina’s Milei meets with Open AI’s Sam Altman and Apple’s Tim Cook
Argentina’s President Javier Milei waves during the commemoration of the 214th anniversary of the May Revolution that led to the independence from Spain, at Plaza San Martin in Cordoba, Argentina, …
A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own
Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the uglier aspects of social media, combating scams and election meddling. …
RFK Jr.’s VP Pick, Nicole Shanahan, Reportedly Had Fling With Musk
An in-depth report from The New York Times is offering an intriguing look at Nicole Shanahan’s days in Silicon Valley. Shanahan, who was announced as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running …
Give This Rich Dude $1 or The Onion Disappears Forever
There was nothing funny about the way Jeff Lawson left Twilio, the startup he cofounded in 2008 and built into a multibillion-dollar public company enabling businesses to communicate with customers …